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What do Lady Gaga and direct-to-consumer marketing have in common? The answer is a lot. Building communities all starts with finding a common thread that brings people together

Without effective public health insurance exchanges, we will miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a solution to the problem of providing affordable health care coverage to all Americans. Here, the President and CEO of Extend Health on how it can be done. The government's Affordable Care Act aims to make health insurance more accessible and affordable to millions of individual Americans and employees of small businesses

In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show .

Making purchases online is a headache: filling out your billing address, your credit card number, your zip code, and other personal details. How often have you sat squinting at your desk, slowly bobbing your head from card to computer as you henpeck away at the keyboard with one hand? But a new service launched today can make paying for goods digitally just as painless and simple as swiping your card at the grocery store.

Sites such as Ideeli, Lot18, Gilt Groupe, and Rue La La are offering carefully curated deals at reduced prices.

As CEO of Novartis, Europe's second largest drug company, the former competitive swimmer Joe Jimenez won't rest until he snags the top spot. The key: innovative products, expansion into new markets, and good old-fashioned team building. As a teenager, Joe Jimenez spent four hours a day, seven days a week in the pool training for swim meets

Understanding people through direct experience has become a forgotten part of American business. Here's how strangers can and should help shape brands. As I crawled up to the 19th floor, stumbling over broken glass, old beer cans, rat droppings, and a smell that made me gag, I found my way to apartment number 19294--my home for the next two days

Prodcast. That's the name of the tool Microsoft would love to get under the noses of as many tech-buying consumers as it possibly could.

Known for her blunt leadership style, Bartz also makes a deep impression online, according to digital footprint tracker PeekYou. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has huge digital feet

At the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'll see more web and mobile app companies--even tiny startups--than in years past.

For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.

New crib safety guidelines from the Consumer Product Safety Commission require cribs to be sturdier and more durable

We humans can so easily give in to our vices. Something as simple as a credit card can weaken self-control. The good news is that the reverse is also true: cash can buffer us from indulgence.

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Skanz Are Wearable Business Cards/Social Network The New York Consumer Electronic Week conference will outfit all attendees with a QR-code wristband that activities a sophisticated business card-like app called Skanz. In addition to basic info, Skanz is a mini-social network that facilitates offline interacting after the conference--in other words, no more trying to cram even more URLs and social media IDs onto increasingly tinier slivers of what was once called a business card (for more business-card ditching strategies, see our post from SXSW)

Use Google Goggles to scan bands and art (not clunky codes) to download free stuff in the new HTC Sensation 4G ads, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Deutsch L.A. and Google