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While the deal makes sense on paper, you know it's never that easy to pull off, which is why you'll need your management team prepped to make it happen as smoothly as possible. Your business , unlike your competition, is doing well and growing. Or, perhaps your growth has reached a lull and you'd like to rectify that

Four years ago, investors gingerly handed over seed money to Lumosity, a startup creating brain games. Today they're happily tossing the same company $32 million

It's not profits or the end of coal (they're pretty confident about both those things). Rather, it's a dwindling resource that you wouldn't expect. There are endless aspects of our energy economy to think about--including an aging power grid infrastructure, the lack of rare earth metals , the need to build more robust transmission lines, and so on

In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself

September 11th caused two friends and co-workers to rethink their career and take the step to start a business. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States .

Apprio's framework puts the geeky power to build iOS apps in the hands of any enterprise user. Goodbye, T&E reports. Hello, "ExpenseVille." Appirio's just released a software package that lets enterprise customers put together an iPad or iPhone app almost on a click-and-drag basis

If you have achieved at least $1 million in revenue in each of the past 2 fiscal years, you may want to check out this competition. Here, the sky is the limit! While many solopreneurs build multi-million dollar businesses, not every solopreneur sets out with the intention of remaining solo for the duration of their years in business.

Jack, Bryn, Olivia, Derek and Aaron face uncertainty about their future as Gemini Corp CEO Andy Corvell calls an all-hands meeting. When friends and co-workers Aaron, Olivia, Jack, Derek, and Bryn are downsized by their eccentric CEO, Andy Corvell (Craig Bierko), they decide to make the 'leap' toward the unknown, rent an office, and start their own businesses. Things get complicated when each receives the same anonymous e-mail from a mystery investor promising half a million dollars to the start-up that impresses them the most four months from today.

A new analysis shows that the race between online discount services Groupon, Living Social, and others is less about what they're offering or even how they're offering it and more about where they're prospecting.

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've had my company up and running for five years. We've gotten past the start-up days where it felt like survival most of the time.

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've decided to shut down my business.

Every computer, modem, server and smartphone that connects to the Internet has a unique Internet protocol (IP) address, which enables users to find it. The address format, known as IPv4, was standardized in 1977 as a 32-digit binary number, making a then seemingly unlimited 4.3 billion addresses (232) available. Now they’re almost gone

"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC conference today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Apple revealed its long-awaited cloud sharing and sync service today, iCloud. Far more than a way to back up files to a distant server, iCloud is integrated across Apple desktops and mobile devices to ensure that all of your computers can synchronize contacts, calendars, email, apps, music, photos, and more

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If you have to ask... Companies are required to submit to the EPA all studies about substantial risk that their chemicals pose to humans