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Scott Harrison's story inspires Inc. 500|5000 attendees to donate their birthdays to charity:water. charity: water CEO, Scott Harrison, a nightclub promoter who transformed himself into one of the hottest not-for-profit entrepreneurs of our time, had Inc

Ordinary people and small businesses using Facebook are going to have to come to grips with two new terms after the big announcements Mark Zuckerberg made today at f8 , the Facebook Developer conference. The first is "self-expression," which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even what you cook. The second is "serendipity," which means if you see a friend of yours has watched a movie on Netflix, you can click on that app in your timeline and begin watching it immediately from within the app.

John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might think he doesn't have to fret about success any longer. But according to Vechey, it's not success that CEOs need to be concerned about, but how they will deal with that success once it comes their way. Vechey, always humble, shared with our Inc.

For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up

Users can now get music, movies, and more right from their new Timeline-enabled profile pages.

At today's Facebook F8 developer conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined Mark Zuckerberg on stage for a surprise announcement: Netflix will finally be integrating social sharing with Facebook. That is, if a bill that sitting in Congress is ever able to pass on the House floor.

Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack

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When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole.

For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as Google's neglected stepsister aside Apple's radiant iPhones and beloved iOS. That's all changing now. For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as the neglected stepsister aside the iPhone’s radiant, beloved iOS.

Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift--which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms--to sweeten the whole deal. "It's your friend's birthday and you know she really wants an iPad, but you only have enough for the classic annual scented candle," teases the press release for Shareagift , a new London startup that brings online payments and social networking to collborative gift-buying

AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why. Amazon Web Services was a game-changer for application developers.