A clutch of billion-dollar startups are bent on acquiring talent and tech they don't want to build from scratch. Fast Company asked both a buyer (Salesforce) and a seller (Wibiya, bought by Conduit) to share some best practices for acquiring, merging, and becoming more profitable (and happier) than ever.

Mission, maker of some sweet EV bike hardware, has revealed its latest two-wheeled electric wonder: The "R" superbike. It's slick, green, and will actually hit the track in zero carbon TTXGP races.

If you don't know where you are going, any direction will get you there.

A mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May.

If you're wondering whether NASA has some kind of built-in tweet software on the space shuttle, well, it doesn't. The agency's engineers are going to have to figure out a way for the astronaut, Mike Massimino, to transmit his 140-character updates while out in the ether.

Imagine this. You step on to the elevator. The doors are closing. All of a sudden, the leading pioneer in your field or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company steps on the elevator and pushes the button to the top floor. The opportunity of a lifetime has just presented itself. Your mind is racing, you have 30 sec. to sell yourself and present your brand. What do you say? You may be thinking, ‘I can’t possibly compress my life into 30 sec. My resume is 2 pages, I’ve accomplished so much, I’m very valuable, I need more time’… If that is what you are thinking, I submit to you this. Read More »