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Getting your merchandise from point A to point B can be costly. Follow these tips, and you'll save smart on your shipping strategy. Let’s face it : shipping is a tough beast to tackle

When Dolores Labs changed its name to CrowdFlower, it left behind a sprawling loft of an office, a hip logo, and a culture of innovation. A VC firm seized the opportunity. When Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures was considering investing in San Francisco-based crowdsourcing start-up Dolores Labs, he laid one significant stipulation on the company's CEO, Lukas Biewald

Your employees may never say no to a bonus, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal way to credit their work. Examples from Foursquare and other innovative companies show how to make your rewards as creative as the ideas they're rewarding. Projet Cr

"We want consumers to have a great time," says SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch, "and we also want business to love it enough that they're willing to pay for it." SCVNGR is a company that takes fun very seriously. Upon entering their office complex in Cambridge, MA, you'll notice quickly that this is no ordinary workplace.

When it comes to mobile location apps, I am little skeptical, very intimidated and completely uneducated in how to use them. In this video series, I set out to talk with companies that are pioneering in the mobile location sector to find out how they plan on making revenue, and what's next for the entire industry. Few people understand the location industry better than Jay Adelson and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, CEO and VP of Product, respectively, at SimpleGeo

Tech Trends columnist John Brandon gave two DIY app building tools a whirl. Here are the results. Over the past few months, I've been getting loads of PR pitches about software that lets you create your own smartphone applications—no coding or design skills required

"The idea of 'checking in' has resonated with a generation of users," says Josh Williams, CEO of Gowalla, "but at the same time it's one-dimensional and is going to evolve a lot over the next year." When it comes to mobile location apps, I am little skeptical, very intimidated and completely uneducated in how to use them.

The HTC Status puts its money where its mouth is: Almost the entire front end of the phone is about sharing, updating, or checking on your social-network statuses. The thing even has a "share on Facebook " button right on its chassis. The Status, coming exclusively from AT&T this summer, is otherwise run-of-the-mill

Alexa Andrzejewski returned to San Francisco from a vacation to Japan with an idea: a field guide to global food.

These days, it takes nearly a half-dozen apps to keep up with all our fragmented social networks. But a new app out today called Banjo aims to solve those disconnections by integrating all your social networks into one streamlined service. We shoot out quick updates to friends on Facebook.

As Cannes judges shortlist their Lions, we talk with creatives about the key decisions that helped them transform their visions into award-worthy campaigns. Here, Droga5 copywriter Adam Noel and art director Jon Kubik discuss the Jay-Z Decoded campaign, which just took home the Outdoor Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions

Senators Al Franken and Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill yesterday that takes direct aim at online privacy.

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Mara Hvistendahl's book , Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. The technology that ultimately became the dominant method of sex selection around the world began as a tool for navigation. The story of ultrasound dates to 1794, when an Italian biologist curious about how bats find their way in the dark discovered sonar, or the fact that distance can be determined by bouncing sound waves off a faraway object and measuring how long it takes for the waves to ricochet back

Have a business near a concert or sports venue? Wouldn't you like a way to reach that local, hungry, primed-to-spend crowd just as their tummies start to grumble? Here's a site and an app for you.

It's time for an updated guide to protecting your data on Facebook. Here's how to turn Face Recognition off, and make your profile as safe as you'd like it to be. Facebook seems to be forever pushing the boundaries of what "online privacy" means