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Collect donations and send out automated updates over social media, all from the comfort of your phone. All of us have, at one point or another, decided to help out a charity or organization by raising money. Maybe you're doing a marathon to support cancer research, or a bake sale for disaster relief

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Instead of being held captive by massive startup and infrastructure costs, Science Exchange allows anyone to have an experiment performed for them--for a fee. Scientific research is an expensive proposition.

Irene may not have lived up to expectations where the cameras were, but its impact is still being felt farther inland, where the real damage was. A report from the floods. Despite numerous predictions to the contrary, Hurricane Irene didn't blow North Carolina's Outer Banks to pieces or push a deadly storm surge through the streets of Baltimore.

I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly.

The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.

The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.

I was lifting weights at my gym, a community center in New York City, when he caught my attention. His name, I later found out, was Marvin Moster. He stood a few inches over five feet, mostly bald with some white hair on the sides of his head, sporting a mustache, and wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts.

You used to be able to rent a single episode of some of your favorite TV shows via iTunes, and access them for a short period for your viewing pleasure.

The ski resort is betting it will get more bang for its buck from letting happy vacationers post the photos taken by its hillside photographers to Facebook--for free--than it will from selling them hardcopies. One of the hardest things to do for any company that wants to innovate is to willingly cannibalize a profitable line of business.

When will a computer finally understand sarcasm? Seth Redmore of Lexalytics gazes into the future of text analysis and machine intelligence. The next guest in our futurist series, Crystal Ballin’ , is Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics , a major player in the realm of text and sentiment analysis

Microbes are everywhere, and most are harmless. But tightly sealed buildings--like hospitals or offices--create places where only dangerous bugs survive

I remember when SEO first "hit." I had been at an online publishing company for about a year, and while there was always some attention paid to on-page optimization, I'd hardly call what we were doing a strategy. It soon became clear, however, that this new focus on SEO would end up changing the way we did pretty much everything. The first shoe to drop?

Google 's Eric Schmidt was visiting the other side of the Atlantic this weekend, and during his speaking engagements he waxed lyrical about Google TV. Very lyrical. He pronounced, "Virtually all the television manufacturers on their very high end will eventually adopt Google TV." He also suggested a five-year timetable and then revealed that Google TV will be getting its British debut in about six months.

Car sharing isn't new, but what if it was your car that was being shared? A new crop of peer-to-peer hourly car rental companies are popping up--can they gain traction