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A low-cost, low-effort way to test your instincts--and prove a meaningful insight--before it's too late. We all have hunches: that a new market is about to explode, that there's a problem in finance, that consumer behavior is changing

Most businesses aren't taking full advantage of free, available website data. Here are a few items you are probably missing.

Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver. Dozens of new apps, gadgets, and online services are vying for your attention.

Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice thinks that his company can leverage its way into the tablet market because it's wide open. Speaking to Reuters , Felice said that Dell tablets powered by Windows 8 would arrive later in 2012, and they'd offer something no one else has: Dell's "coveted brand." The optimism didn't end there.

This year, the U.S.

Research on U.S. Net habits suggests that if this sentence takes longer than a second to load, many citizens will have clicked elsewhere already. If you've got the patience (or are European) read on for more shocking data on not dawdling

Seems Google is going to release sweeping changes to its flagship search functionality.

A little more than three years ago a medical team from Berlin published the results of a unique experiment that astonished HIV researchers. The German group had taken bone marrow--the source of the body’s immune cells--from an anonymous donor whose genetic inheritance made him or her naturally resistant to HIV.

As announced this week, the new Apple TV brings a new UI, better internal specs, and full HD capability to the table. But there's the business equivalent of an Easter egg hidden in it for Netflix subscribers: From now on, if you want to join Netflix you can do it through your Apple TV, and Apple handles the payments via its iTunes back channel. Essentially it works like this: The Apple TV functionality hinges on your iTunes user account, the same kind that's powered 25 billion app downloads to date

Watching Vevo, the online music-video service, used to be all about one-off experiences. Viewers would head to Vevo or YouTube to watch music videos by artists such as Jay-Z or LMFAO, but rarely would they venture beyond what they searched for

Cloud computing has been hailed as the best way to provide any data to any gadget at any time. Unfortunately, all this ubiquity comes at a cost--the data centers that store, send and receive all of that data consume a lot of energy, most of it from fossil fuels. [More]

Want $20 back from Whole Foods when you use your AmEx card? Tweet #AmExWholeFoods. Here's what's behind the new deals for the sharing generation

Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it.

Companies gather ever more information about us, and better technology means they can crunch it faster. That should actually make for better service--and more interesting content. With all the scaremongering going on these days about how much advertisers and websites know about us , you'd think certain online sites would be able to do a much better job in matching their ads to our interests

In times like these, cost cutting and streamlining are compelling business strategies. Business executives sometimes have second thoughts about their loyalty programs and ask our consultants whether it’s really worth the cost.