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Microsoft is letting you try its latest operating system before you buy. Here are the business features not to miss.

Here's how one Israeli company acquired a start-up company, and helped innovation, independence, and creativity flourish there. It is the dream of many entrepreneurs to build something great and have their company acquired.

Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store

[twistage 84d3fb5e5b41c] As a Senior Researcher for Microsoft, danah boyd , (yes, all lowercase, she had her name legally changed), studies how we work, live, and play on the Internet. While the well-known researcher truly loves social media and the online universe, she also understands that sometimes we all need to turn off and tune out.

Apple officially unveiled its new iPad, coming to stores March 16. Tablet screens don't get any better than this

Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it.

The computer scientist by trade put multimedia skills to use in journalism and helped usher The New York Times, News Corp., and now The Guardian into the digital era. As an undergraduate at Colorado State, Gabriel Dance majored in computer science.

Is it selling? Pitching?

People are more interesting than companies--so effective leaders are responsible for getting out there and spreading the good word. Here's the paradox: I run a company that's incredibly visible, but not that well known

CEO Doug Ulman explains how the new social tool puts the emphasis on overcoming challenges over time, something Lance Armstrong knows about. In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman , the President and CEO of the

.bigbody a {color:#008CB3;} .bigbody img {display:inline-block;width:100px;vertical-align:top;} .bigbody p {display:inline-block;width:480px;vertical-align:top;} Tim Quirk Head of Android global content programming, Google The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett "Pratchett, who's pretty much the Mark Twain of fantasy, is returning to his sci-fi roots. Speaking of Twain, where is volume two of the autobiography he wouldn't allow to be published until 100 years after his death?"

The serial tech entrepreneur has made a career out of taking slightly bizarre behaviors and turning them into start-ups. His latest: a task-on-demand app. Justin Kan has made a career out of taking slightly bizarre behaviors and turning then into tech start-ups

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Ticketmaster, which recently merged with Live Nation, dominates the multibillion-dollar ticketing industry. But these companies are looking to steal the show

By Katherine Bourzac of Nature magazine Bits of data travelling the internet have a tough commute -- they bounce back and forth between optical signal lines for efficient transmission and electrical signal lines for processing. [More]