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I recently attended a speech by Gary Hoover , founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc.

Google clearly thinks so! Google announced this week that it will be launching a new sort of netbook called a "Chromebook" on June 15th.

What product is going to be the iPad killer? Consumers and bloggers alike can't stop asking that question. Search for "iPad Killer" on Google and you'll return 778,000 results.

News leaked weeks ago that pop powerhouse Lady Gaga might team with Zynga for a possible promo deal .

Have you ever had the experience of buying a deal from Groupon or LivingSocial, getting to the merchant (a restaurant, let's say), and awkwardly giving the server a crumpled piece of paper to prove that you deserve $20 worth of food for just $10?

Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony.

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 1,000 liters--the equivalent amount of gas you would need to get the nuclear fusion power of one liter of seawater.

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. Longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer was asked at a conference on Wednesday what had changed, now that Larry Page has moved into the CEO spot.

When five local entrepreneurs purchased the Kansas City, Missouri-based Major League Soccer franchise for $15 million back in 2006 (then known as the Wizards), they came into a business that had been owned by the late Lamar Hunt as a secondary property behind his NFL team (the Kansas City Chiefs) and that didn't have much brand identity. The new owners, though, came in with little soccer knowledge but focused on building an innovative business and becoming a community staple.

There's growing social and legal momentum behind the "do not track" initiative to protect online privacy, but now some of the biggest names in tech are opposing the legislation, hinting that job losses and profit cuts could be the result. Are they being totally honest

Social media analysis firm Crimson Hexagon sifts the data to reveal a nuanced emotional reaction to the historic day. Nearly 50% of us responded to the news with fear, humor, or reflection. From Crimson Hexagon, the social media analysis firm that dispelled the myth of the Verizon iPhone exodus and Sharon Angle's 2010 Senate sweep , comes a truer-to-life snapshot of the world's reaction to Osama Bin Laden's death

The car giant doesn't see an EV in every driveway--yet. Last week, BMW upset electric vehicle lovers everywhere when Jim O'Donnell, the company's North American chairman and CEO, said that EVs won't work at their current battery range for at least 90% of the population--and that the U.S. government should end the $7,500 EV tax credit.

In this excerpt from his new book, Fixing the Game author Roger L. Martin examines what the NFL can teach the business world about managing expectations and how CEOs are rigging the game. Few people conceive of the world of business in terms of real and expectations markets

This article is part 7 of an 8 part series. Read part 6 here . Geoffrey Moore’s latest book, Dealing with Darwin , addresses how to achieve innovation at each stage of a company’s development.

Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.