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• Typecon

  Here's some typeface trivia to keep in mind to celebrate this year's TypeCon.

• MTV's 30th Anniversary

  Since MTV's 30th anniversary is likely to pass like its 25th, which barely earned an on-air nod, we've traced the brand from its colicky infancy through its earnest preteen years and wayward adolescence to its present.

• Lollapalooza

  After struggling in the late '90s as bands lost interest in festivals, Lolla's now stronger than ever thanks to a sturdy partnership with the city's park district.

• Device Design Day

  Forget glassy touch screens -- the next big thing in human-machine interaction is tactile interfaces.

• Retail Customer Experience Executive Summit

  If you've ever browsed the shelves at your local bookstore only to go home and purchase online, you're a brick-and-mortar retailer's worst nightmare.

• Friendship Day

  Corporate partnerships come and go -- unless you go into business with your best friend. To celebrate Friendship Day, we've rounded up our favorite (and most lucrative) friendships.

• D23 Expo

  Think Comic-Con, but replace the superheroes with princesses.

• Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

  Nearly nine months after the launch of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft faces a steep uphill slog in the app race against Google and Apple.

• Buddhist Geeks: The Conference

  Fifteen years after Steve Jobs first extolled the beauty of a beginner's ability to think without preconceptions, the business world is more enamored than ever with ancient Eastern principles.

• Solar Power Beats the Heat at the MLB All-Star Game

  It's not the competition between the National and American leagues that will have fans sweating buckets at the All-Star Game at Phoenix's Chase Field.