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The biggest areas of opportunity for companies hoping to set up a digital shop for Chinese consumers? Price comparison, trust, and a solid returns policy.

The infomercial follows a simple formula: Hyperbolically overinflate a frustration of daily life, earnestly present a corny product as the easy solution, wonder aloud how expensive such a product would be, and sell it at a fraction of that imaginary price. Then repeat.

Now that Kim Kardashian is on Google+, can we say the service has arrived? Nothing signals the success of a social network or propels its growth more than power users, the influentials who boast both clout and Klout. Their mass followings can drive a service's success, from celebs-turned-techies (Ashton Kutcher) to techies-turned-celebs (Robert Scoble)

The Advances section of Scientific American 's November issue took readers into the air with the world's highest flying geese, back in time with an unlikely ancestor, into space to rendezvous with some garbage, to the Internet for a new way of conducting clinical trials, and beyond. For readers interested in learning more about the developments described in this section, a list of further background material follows: "On the Trail of Space Trash" [More]

How a 55-person business in Minnetonka developed the software solution India needed to tackle its energy problems. Pull out your world map and smack in the middle of the eastern hemisphere lies India, that colossal diamond-shaped country brimming with more than 1.2 billion people—the majority of whom are under the age of 35. Its economy is growing like gangbusters, it is now an influential member of the G20, and foreign firms have made significant investments there.

Hotspot Shield has just released an iOS version that gives iPhone and iPad users easy, secure VPN access. However, there's a difference: Unlike the PC product, mobile isn't free.

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These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor?

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor

Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo Band Together For Ads . The advertising partnership will allow the companies to sell each others' unsold display ads, Reuters reports

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Doodle celebrates Marie Curie's birthday. Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw.

The late Andy Rooney was a vicious critic who despised sloppy grammar and loathed Justin Bieber. Sound familiar, Internet?

Despite medical advances, the treatment of many chronic diseases remains haphazard and inconsistent. Teenagers with Crohn’s disease, a painful digestive disorder often diagnosed in adolescence, for example, sometimes get conflicting information regarding medications, diet modifications and alternative therapies.

Since the inception of currency, the sale or purchase of goods has been a tangible activity. With the advent of mobile location technology, we are on the verge of changing that paradigm