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I will never forget the phone call I received from my colleague Mike on Dec. 26, 2005

Many entrepreneurs and leaders come and go without passing on what made them great. But there have been others who decided to pick up a pen, sit at a typewriter, or dictate into a recorder. While we have featured many business books this year in our Leadership Hall Of Fame , we have avoided biographies.

In just nine months, the photo sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per seond).

Twitter is experiencing growing pains. Last week, the company said it would integrate Promoted Tweets into user Twitter streams, placing them at the top of one's timeline. Here's expert opinion on how or if the once-breezy service can follow in the footsteps of ubiquitous ad machine Facebook

It's more like the "multiple device" era. It's amazing to me that there are people who can buy into conspiracy theories like questioning President Obama's "real birthplace," but when it comes to this brave new world of technology that requires us to have multiple devices, no one is suspicious this happened on purpose

Facebook and ComScore have teamed up for a new service, Social Essentials. It offers unprecedented insights into the influence of brands on social media, complete with detailed credit card behavior, and findings suggest it's not really your brand's fans you need to worry about--it's their friends. Forget Facebook fans; brands need to target the friends of fans.

Making purchases online is a headache: filling out your billing address, your credit card number, your zip code, and other personal details. How often have you sat squinting at your desk, slowly bobbing your head from card to computer as you henpeck away at the keyboard with one hand? But a new service launched today can make paying for goods digitally just as painless and simple as swiping your card at the grocery store.

Looking to start a benefit corporation, a nonprofit, or a for-profit company with a social purpose? Those whove done it say social entrepreneurism takes grit, resolve, and imagination. Fred Keller, founder and CEO of West Michigan plastics manufacturer Cascade Engineering, keeps a card in his pocket with a set of reminders from John Wesley, 18th century Methodist theologian, on conducting a good life

Consumers are reacting to price increases on Netflix the same way Tea Partiers are likely to react if the government raises the debt ceiling.

Move over, Mary Kay. There's a new generation of multi-level marketing whizzes out there hawking to neighbors and friendsand experiencing hyper-fast revenue growth

A solid mobile strategy will include several ways to connect with consumers via their mobile devices. Here are some key approaches and why you should be using them.

A bootstrapper's guide to saving money on office furniture, phone service, computers, business travel, and more For self-funded entrepreneurs, there are few skills more crucial than the ability to do more with less. That could be why many business owners take pride in hunting down deals and driving hard bargains. In that spirit, we have compiled tips to help you save big on a variety of office necessities.

"Existing models don't go away until they are replaced by models that work better," PayPal's Anuj Nayar tells us. "The consumer needs to see the benefit beyond, 'This is just cool.'" When it came to the perhaps over-embellished headlines from Square's announcement yesterday--the end of the cash register as we know it!--PayPal spokesperson Anuj Nayar couldn't help but chuckle. After all, PayPal has been in the payments business roughly 12 years and boasts 98 million users

Foodie and former dotcom entrepreneur Sharelle Klaus was frustrated with her nonalcoholic drink options in fine restaurants when she was pregnant with her fourth child in 2004. So she created her own. Sharelle Klaus —who in 1999 launched Planet Squid, an Internet portal for 10-to-14-year-olds that went under during the dotcom bust—wanted something to drink that would pair well with food, that was all natural, and not too sweet.

The electrical energy from the vibrations caused by a human voice can be harvested--and one day could be used to charge your cell phone. The catch