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Personality tests – also known as behavioral assessments and predictive tests -- have come a long way since "Miracle on 34th Street." That's the film where a nice old man who maintains he's Santa Claus is fired from Macy's after flunking a dubious applicant quiz given by a self-styled shrink. Good tests today are about more than qualifying a candidate for a slot, says Dr. Todd Harris, director of research at PI Worldwide , Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, which has furnished testing to organizations of all sizes around the globe since 1955.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. From raw factory space to clean, bright office

Brian Levine was on a ski vacation with buddy Matt Keiser in 2006 when one morning, after a particularly raucous night, they discovered that a can of Red Bull had spilled into his backpack, soaking the beef jerky that lay inside. "We were hungover and we're like 'Dammit, it spilled, but we're hungry,'" says Levine, 38. "So we ate it and it wasn't horrific—and that kind of sparked an idea." The idea?

1. In a surprise move, AT&T this weekend revealed it has made an offer to buy the USA branch of global telecoms operator T-Mobile for about $39 billion. It will create the largest cell phone network in the U.S., but the deal isn't closing for a year--during which time competitors regulators, lawmakers and the public will have a lot to say on the matter.

As applications for the 2011 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

By Quirin Schiermeier Climate change is affecting the world in many ways. [More]

.style2 { COLOR: #881518 } < Back to Concierges' Guide to LondonALL ENGLISH LAWN TENNIS CLUB (WIMBLEDON) “You can play” at the world’s most famous tennis venue. “It’s not easy.

CoolPlanet Biofuels, a startup that churns out biofuel from cellulosic waste (think plant waste and woodchips) just snagged an undisclosed amount of cash from Google Ventures in its Series B round of funding. This comes after an $8 million funding round last year, which included GE and North Bridge Venture Partners. Out of all the biofuel players in the market, why is CoolPlanet getting so much attention

We've seen conflicting data concerning the role of mobile media in our lives.

The long-awaited New York Times digital subscriptions paywall has been revealed and, at first glance, it seems to be exactly how Apple would like it to be. Print purists will be pleased it's more expensive than the paper edition.

Once in Resolute Bay you feel like you are at the edge of the world, your view is of nothing but snow covered hills and sea ice.

Shepherds of the web, from execs at Firefox to directors at Internet Explorer , have heralded HTML5 as the future of the Internet. Simply put, HTML5 is the latest revision to HTML, the core coding language of the web and the backbone of the Internet.

The world premiere of Paramount Pictures The Tunnel will happen in a few months, but not in a theater--it's going to be released on BitTorrent, for peer-to-peer distribution. Yup, that's the same tech video pirates utilize. The movie is set in a network of abandoned rail tunnels that really exist underneath Sydney, Australia, and from the teaser trailer the film proceeds as a real-life feeling horror/thriller with a nod to the Blair Witch Project

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is growing. In the coming years, the airport--the 15th largest in the world--expects to have 70 million bags passing through it any given time (a 40% increase from today)

1. The battle for advertising market share between Facebook and Google just took an interesting turn: Some Facebook app developers are reporting that Facebook's instructing them to stop using Google's AdSense network. It's because Google hasn't signed Facebook's terms for ad partners, and it's unlikely to--it could impact Google's business model for earning cash.