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Scientists discover new species all the time--on the order of 15,000 a year. One of the latest additions to the tree of life is a new type of leopard frog

Never let these phrases pass the lips of your customer service team. Almost nothing leads to a customer service meltdown more quickly than the use of one particularly offensive phrase

The music streaming service now has 9.3 million users worldwide, and adds another 125,000 new users per month--five times as many as this time last year. Are you ready to dance? In the thinly populated world of Bollywood-friendly music streaming services, Saavn’s slick, well-stocked app is quickly becoming a favorite.

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan.

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan. Photo by Joao Canziani When Tesla Motors moved into its new Palo Alto headquarters in 2010, CEO Elon Musk raised a flute of Champagne and toasted his cheering staff.

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model.

Why serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein says, among other things, that start-up founders should streak. Seth Epstein, the founder and CEO of SocialStay , which creates mobile apps for luxury resorts like the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, and Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, spoke recently as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara Distinguished Lecture Series.

Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe tells Fast Company about the frightening early days of his now hugely successful retail company.

To get an inkling of what a well-designed hospital garden can mean to a seriously ill child, watch the home video posted on YouTube last August of Aidan Schwalbe, a three-year-old heart-transplant recipient. The toddler is shown exploring the meandering paths, sun-dappled lawn and gnarled roots of a branching shade tree in the Prouty Garden at Children’s Hospital Boston. “He loves to be out in the garden feeding the birds and squirrels,” wrote Aidan’s grandmother in an August blog entry

The President and just about every Republican candidate favors eliminating tax loopholes.

Stop trying to balance the mythical scales so that work and family demands and rewards are exactly even.

Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley. Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit , a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more fun, and in the process hopes to democratize what companies like Kaplan typically peddle to the relatively well-to-do. Grockit's users are on track to soon answer their collective 15 millionth question, and each day the site gains more users than would fill the chair-desks of a pair of American high schools

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