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Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech .

While some schoolchildren daydream about crushes during class, delicately inscribing their names in paper margins, others instead yearn to one day discover and name their own species for the cute boy at the corner desk. But they know little about the excess work involved in plant discovery

Welcome to my annual list of who’s been naughty and who's been nice as a speaker or communicator. This week comprises my list of 2011’s losers. (Winners will be announced next week.) Joe Paterno:

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation. So why does America make it so difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to stay? Just in case you need more proof that America's immigration policies are damaging to innovation, a new report shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have founded nearly half of America's top venture-backed companies.

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation.

Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Engineer and congressional Republican firebrand Darrell Issa is leveraging his supporters' collective outrage against a contentious anti-piracy bill , SOPA, to showcase his new experimental crowdsourcing legislative platform.

How well would your company be doing if the number of employees remained static while your customer base grew by a third and you started providing dozens of more services?

Want to grow crystals aboard the International Space Station? ScienceExchange is fast becoming the go-to marketplace for extreme laboratory environments.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney introduced the 'microbiz' bill to help 1,000 lenders make $125 million in loans to small business. U.S. Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today will introduce a bill in Congress aimed to help small businesses.

The blind spot that may have tripped up Jon Corzine is equally dangerous for other leaders. How to avoid it

How will technology change our electoral process? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Keya Danenbaum, the founder of ElectNext, which applies the techniques of dating websites to representative democracy

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As tech-sector regulations pile on for start-ups, here's how to keep innovating while weathering the legal storm. Is your company a scofflaw? Are you sure

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Huge secret loans from the Fed have enriched the very banks who now refuse to lend to small business.