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Here are a few strategies to jump-start your company's growth, increase revenues, and find new customers.

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Skype Buys GroupMe For About $85 Million . Skype, in the midst of its deal with Microsoft, has acquired GroupMe for an estimated $85 million

Why do you put things off, buy over-priced items, and stick with decisions that aren't paying off? Your strangely wired brain, silly.

At the moment, that's how it looks! Hewlett Packard has announced it is buying search software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion.

Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Now add a billionaire benefactor--PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel--bankrolling you and under pressure to prove that entrepreneurship can rival Harvard as a path to success. The inaugural class of Thiel Fellows is blogging about their experiences for Fast Company

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work. Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility

B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well

Bookstores won't die, but business models are changing.

Can being ambitious derail your career? It can when it leads to a multitude of bad habits. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from What Got You Here, Won't Get You There (2007) by Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter.

How could anyone forget these (although you probably wish you could...)? In the late 2000s, Kinoki bombarded us with relentless television ads and Internet pitches for adhesive foot pads it claimed would remove harmful toxins from your body overnight.

From space probes to royal weddings, Lego is inserting itself into all sorts of newsy events--and getting that instant exposure which few others have replicated. On Aug. 5, NASA's Juno spacecraft began its five-year journey to the planet Jupiter

Aaron Levie, No. 59 on our list of the Most Creative People in Business, has a simple vision : Users should be able to share and access their content from anywhere, on any device. But as simple as that notion sounds, the execution is far from effortless for Levie, the co-founder and CEO of cloud-storage startup Box (formerly Box.net)

Did the new numbers in Groupon's pre-IPO filing leave you ready to write off the daily deals company? Maybe you should take a second look