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When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love.
Read More »Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80 Billion A Year
Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952.
Read More »Want to Retain Gen-Y Job Hoppers? Don’t Bother
Young people these days are notoriously fickle when it comes to their employers. How should companies lock down talent
Read More »Case Study: To Sue or Not to Sue
The rival: enormous. Its product: disturbingly similar. The question: Should Mixed Chicks get into a legal battle with a multibillion-dollar giant?
Read More »Forensic Anthropology Gives Voice to Unidentified Remains
RALEIGH, N.C. Bone-hunters and anthropologists typically guard their fossils as priceless specimens.
Read More »Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?
The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Internet freedom -- but it won't be the last battle of its kind.
Read More »Proposed changes to autism definition may mean new diagnoses for people with Asperger’s
Proposed changes to American Psychological Association's diagnostic manual may stop skyrocketing autism rates, experts said
Read More »Psych! 3 Secrets for Better Hiring
Interviewing may be more of an art than an exact science, but that doesn't mean psychological research can't help you select the best candidate. Getting to know people well is hard—whether you’re choosing a mate, a friend, or an employee for your company. Why?
Read More »Generation Flux: Danah Boyd
Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times
Read More »Japan’s First Reactor Stress Tests at Fukushima Reach Key Stage
By Risa Maeda TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's panel of experts is due to review the nuclear watchdog's first report on reactor stress tests on Wednesday in an important step in efforts to rebuild public trust shattered by the Fukushima crisis and restart idled reactors. [More]
Read More »How To Talk To Your Boss And Fix Your Job
It's all too easy to spend long stretches simmering at your desk instead of having a straight-ahead talk with your boss.
Read More »What Drives Customer Loyalty Now?
It's time to put away the golf clubs and pull out Google Reader: Sales are no longer just about personal relationships. If you think customer loyalty is driven by personal relationships or because of your hard work, then not only are you wrong--but you're putting your revenue at risk.
Read More »Your Customers Don’t Care, That’s a Good Thing
When making the jump to social media marketing, small enterprises must avoid assuming that customers are ever truly engaged. There’s a turn of phrase that’s been rattling around my head recently—you know the one about being a “victim of your own success?” Sometimes I wonder whether that’s the case with social media evangelists. By any measure, we’ve helped drive ever larger numbers of businesses and independent professionals to start using social-based promotion, which is fine on its face, but how much value has been added to the lives of consumers
Read More »Marijuana might not harm lungs, but experts leery of other effects
Experts weigh in on marijuana smoking's effects on lungs, mental health, in light of study that found no long-term lung damage
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