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Pat Sajak claimed in an ESPN2 interview that he and "Wheel of Fortune" co-star Vana White used to get drunk off of margaritas in between tapings during the early days of the game show. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.

"We're rapidly moving to a world beyond plastic," says Ed McLaughlin. "In many ways, plastic is just convenient packaging." McLaughlin heads up emerging payments at MasterCard, and he's tasked with thinking big on the future of transaction technology. His group has dreamed up loads of creative ways to accept payments, from hacking an Xbox Kinect to pay-by-hand motion, to implanting NFC tech in ultrabooks , to scanning irises to prevent credit card fraud.

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Advertising is always big business at the Super Bowl. Now companies like GM are working with Facebook, Twitter, iPhones, and Androids to make it even bigger. On February 5, hundreds of thousands of fans will pack Indianapolis and more than 100 million eyeballs will be glued to Super Bowl XLVI

Dont goose near-term results at the expense of long-term value creation.

LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users

If you are like me, sometimes I am so busy trying to catch up, stay even, or take the lead that I lose perspective. When things are going well, I am on top of the world.

Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and platforms--will educational content be its next conquest? When I was in college 10 years ago, my biology textbook was a $300, four-pound monstrosity with a shiny CD-ROM shrink-wrapped to the front.

These six mantras help keep me focused, and help keep my business sailing along, no matter what the day brings. I’ve founded two companies and co-founded two others, but some days, I still feel like I never know what’s going to hit me next. Luckily, I’ve found a few simple mantras that help me stay steady even when things get ridiculously hairy.

How Martin Luther King, Jr. wrestled with anger and what you can learn from his example.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Shaadi.com Launches "Angry Brides" Facebook Game

So you got a degree. Now it's time to face the realities of running a business, including these lessons you didn't learn in the classroom. At the end of our first year in business I got on my knees and prayed to God for a sign: whether we should continue our business

Mitt Romney is being slammed for his work at Bain Capital. But for small business, private equity can work much differently than it does for big public companies.

How host dinners and white knuckles add up to big business wins, just like a football game. As the NFL playoffs gear up and college football winds down, I'm constantly amazed at how much very small things can have an impact over the course of the game