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A friend of mine received an anonymous offer for $120, via GoDaddy, for a domain he had owned for years called FuzzWire.com. He did not know the nature of the offer--that is, whether it was from a well-financed startup--but he at least knew that since it came from GoDaddy, and was not just some personalized plea sent by email, that he should test the offers limits.

Tying a traditional loyalty program to social and location-based check-ins can be an easy way for businesses to attract customers and make money. Heres how to determine whether its worth it for your business and then how to pull it off

Today's Earnings Call Later today Apple will reveal its most recent quarterly finances, and the industry is aquiver with anticipation. Speculation on the stock markets has seen Apple's price soar over recent days. It's all with the expectation that having finally solved its iPad 2 supply chain issues, and boosted by iPhone sales on Verizon as well as improving Mac sales, Apple may post highly promising revenues.

Thanks to Skype, Apple FaceTime and at least a half dozen other mobile video apps, the old-fashioned phone call is becoming pass

Which leaders should you have your eye on this year? Sheryl Sandberg, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Landrieu are just a few.

Apple PC Share Grows. Apple's share of the U.S. PC market has soared to a 10.7% all-time high, up from 8.5% at the end of 2010--taking the third place as a PC retailer behind HP and Dell.

"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

And it has made close to $6 billion in revenue from app sales.

With the initial fuss about Google+ dying down, the real potential for the social system to challenge popular net apps is breaking through. Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature --it's right there on the front page.

A big chunk of change dropped into the mobile payments company’s lap this week when Kleiner Perkins signed on as an investor. Square's COO, Keith Rabois, tells us where the dough will go.

"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.

We continue our series uncovering the key decisions that made a campaign an award-winner. Here, Eric Quennoy and Mark Bernath, ECDs at Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam dissect Film Grand Prix winner Write the Future. Due to irresponsible use, the word "epic" is a shell of its former self, but it’ll have to do the heavy lifting here to describe Nike’s Write the Future campaign.

Just after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Instagram , the photo-sharing app he'd created with Mike Krieger, was open to the world

They're making the hottest apps on your iPhone, and shirts that don't gap; encouraging you to eat healthier, and date smarter; fighting government censorship, and those extra pounds on your thighs; helping impoverished women worldwide, and kids at New Orleans charter schools. Where else would you find a more awesome and diverse group of young entrepreneurs than right here on our 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs list? Jinnett, a professional ballerina who danced in Black Swan, wanted to help mere mortals who longed for dancer-like bodies