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These mobile apps can help keep track of business expenses by logging each trip and creating IRS-friendly reports.

Three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator to focus on start-ups with a female founder and a mobile product or service. Tech incubators, such as Y Combinator and TechStars, graduate astonishingly low rates of woman-run companies. Instead of complaining about the gender gap, three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator

To rigorously evaluate a new idea, business plan, sales pitch, or product feature, be sure you ask these three simple questions. They will save you. Before you waste your time with a business case, sales pitch, or SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), put yourself in your customers' shoes

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Ahead of the Mobile World Congress event next week dozens of new smartphones are being revealed or teased to stir up the tech press, get potential customers excited, and, of course, drum up sales.

Boku currently lets cell phone owners pay for things through carrier billing in over 60 countries. Usually these transactions are for small things--items like apps, ringtones, small-scale online purchases--perhaps because that's all users are comfortable with, unsure of how big their cell phone bill will be at the end of the month

Chances are that if you are reading this, you have a private flush toilet a few steps from your bed. Your commode is more reliable than your mobile connection, and likely will outlast all of your home appliances. Yet huge tracts of the developing world have yet to see so much as a latrine, a situation that facilitates the spread of debilitating or even deadly diarrheal diseases .

Those tiny plastic USB memory sticks you've got on your desk or skulking in your laptop bag's pocket are soon to be relegated to the past. Innovation, and the mobile tech revolution, is to blame

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a rare appearance today at Goldman Sachs' technology and Internet conference. During the presentation, Cook spoke on everything from supplier working conditions to the demise of the PC industry

User experience is a priority that should, in some way, find a home within the design of any new-media strategy.

Smartphones with HDTV reception chips and in-car television sets are big business in Taiwan, China, and Brazil. Now the travel-friendly tech behind mobile DTV is making its way to the United States.

For many big nontech companies, the best way to innovate quickly is to fund startups that pioneer their future business.

We sifted through media coverage of Facebook's imminent IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups. Get ready to ride the linked-up lightning. Now it's Facebook's turn to share.

We sifted through media coverage of Facebook's imminent IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups. Get ready to ride the linked-up lightning. Now it's Facebook's turn to share

As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you're not in tech? Welcome to 2012 , a time in which hacking is praised in S-1 filings .