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Google and Bing have come a long way since Mapquest.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

As applications for the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 arrive, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

How Facebook pages psychologically manipulate us into liking brands. Many of the world's most powerful brands are doubling down on Facebook, from President Obama to The New Yorker

The world's largest forest antelope faces almost certain extinction in the wild in as few as 14 years if current population trends continue, according to a statement by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Just 103 critically endangered mountain bongos (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) remain in Kenya, the last country where the animals exist in the wild. They live in four scattered and isolated groups, the largest of which numbers 50 individuals.

By Sid Perkins for Nature magazine Beginning in late 2004, a flurry of massive, tsunami-spawning earthquakes have rocked the world, first slamming Indonesia, then Chile and most recently Japan. [More]

We pronounced the netbook phenomenon all but over last year--they're now merely another class of laptop one can buy, at the cheap end.

By now we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans and not bots.

01 / Nissan For creating the Leaf, the first mass-market electric car. 02 / Nike > > For its mix of sports, style, and yes, plastic bottles

Asthma rates have been surging around the globe over the past three decades, and for a long time researchers thought they had a good idea of what might be fueling the increase: the world we live in is just a little too clean. According to this notion--known as the hygiene hypothesis--exposure in early childhood to infectious agents programs the immune system to mount differing highly effective defenses against disease-causing viruses, bacteria and parasites.

A step change in research relating to plasma nanoscience is needed for the world to overcome the challenge of sufficient energy creation and storage, says a leading scientist from CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering and the University of Sydney, Australia.

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 50% - The percent of Americans who disapprove of building more nuclear plants. Yesterday, the Japanese government upped the severity level of the Fukushima disaster

A German activist who helped found Germany's first community-owned utility thinks citizens shouldn't leave big decisions to power companies and elected officials.

Once upon a time, people didn't camp outside the local Apple Store just to sneak a peek at a jumbo iPhone (we're talking about you, iPad).

"What our clients are struggling with is: How big a deal are social media and location-based services, and how much of it is just sound and fury?" says a senior VP of Applied Predictive Technologies, which runs data analytics for Starbucks and Subway. "You've got your Groupon and Living Social , and your Foursquare and Facebook Places," says Jonathan Marek. "What our clients are struggling with is: How big a deal are social media and location-based services, and how much of it is just sound and fury?" That's the question on the mind of most every marketer and retailer--and Marek might finally have an answer