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Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.

Crazy-busy people read their e-mail with their finger on the delete key. Sales strategist and author Jill Konrath shares her guidelines to increase your e-mail prospecting success

Intel, PayPal, Pepsico, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done.

Rioters in North London have been using BBMs to rally, presuming RIM's phone-to-phone, encrypted messages won't land in the hands of authorities. But in an increasingly familiar move, RIM has now pledged to work with those authorities

Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it

There is genetically modified produce in a lot of the processed food you eat, but this is the first time that Monsanto is taking fresh GM produce from the ground straight to your mouth. If it works out, there will be plenty more. Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, is known for developing engineered crops (i.e.

The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content.

Over the past few weeks, Facebook users saw a spectacular deal advertised by gadget site Dealzon.com: an iPad 2, for only $11.37.

Only days after reporting $363.9 million in quarterly revenue and $79 million in operating income, up 34% and 99% year-over-year, respectively, DVD kiosk company Redbox has released some more impressive figures. With more than 27,000 kiosks spread across the country, the Coinstar-owned service is now seeing an average of 55 million monthly rentals and up to 40 rentals per second. That's a lot of movies circulating for a service that requires a trip to the local grocery store.

What do Lady Gaga and direct-to-consumer marketing have in common? The answer is a lot. Building communities all starts with finding a common thread that brings people together

In 2010, Sean Bandawat acquired Jacob Bromwell, a specialty housewares company that's been in existence since 1819.

You can't find out if an electric car is really going to fit your needs during a test drive. But this new app measures your current driving habits and tells you if an EV or hybrid fits your lifestyle. Electric cars are great for everyone--in theory

Bootstrapping start-ups are rethinking their traditional advertising budgets in favor of viral marketing, but are they just chasing their tails? Experts weigh in. Jeffrey Harmon laughs when he hears the question, "how do you create a viral marketing hit?" Harmon, who gained fame for parlaying $500 and an idea for a funny video into millions of YouTube views and the world's most popular tongue cleaner, understands it's not quite that simple

Dermot McCormack's led a digital turnaround that's put MTV on the top of the online heap as the web's most visited music destination.

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.