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Another sci-fi dream deferred: Funding gave out before the six-year-old startup could perfect its futuristic three-wheeler. Electric car startup Aptera's futuristic three-wheeled two-seater won't be rolling off production lines anytime soon – the company has run out of gas. The company has failed to come up with enough money to produce the cars, reportedly raising only around $40 million of the $150 million it needed for a federal matching grant to keep operating.The grant would have let the company produce an all-electric four-wheel, five-passenger sedan that would have retailed for less than $30,000 – and employed some 1,400 workers in the manufacturing process

When the world talks climate change --as is currently under way in Durban, South Africa--the main issue is carbon dioxide emissions. CO2 is emanating from the negotiators' mouths and the power plants and cars of their home countries--and that simple molecule is responsible for the bulk of global warming to date. [More]

How do you rein in your lackluster marketing team?

A streamlined packing list that won't sacrifice your ability to get things done on the road.

Knowing your content cold helps. But if you still feel nervous, try one of these simple tactics.

In the December issue of Scientific American, author David Weinberger reports from the frontiers of knowledge. His story " The Machine That Would Predict the Future " explores the promise of the FuturICT project , an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.

CollegeHumor co-founder Josh Abramson gets serious about his next venture: funny t-shirts. In 1999, when Josh Abramson was a sophomore in college, he co-founded the website CollegeHumor, a central portal where he and his friends could post funny pictures and videos they were circulating anyway. Five years later, looking to diversify revenue streams, Abramson started BustedTees, which sells t-shirts and other knickknacks that carry many of the funny slogans from CollegeHumor

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If youre going to spend thousands of dollars for a trade show booth, get your moneys worth.

From Coca-Cola to Lego, companies are banking on the "Me Selling Proposition" to revitalize their brands.

"It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best.

Recommendations from a celebrity tweeter who actually writes all of his own tweets. One of my clients (sorry, can’t say who) has over 700,000 Twitter followers, tweets constantly, admits he responds to more DMs than he should, and does it all on his own without the help of a ghost-tweeter. His following is huge mostly because he’s famous, but his Twitter popularity is also due to how effectively he manages the process

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If you aren't learning enough from the conferences you attend, you're probably making the same mistake everyone else does. Don't. Business conferences often have more choirs than a church