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Google Street View's Japan Quake Project, Facebook's Music Plans, College Kids Love Apple, Twitter Value Hits $8 Billion

Post quake, Google finds its place in Japan. "Hey, I'm a Mac, I'm off to college!" New investment puts Twitter at $8 billion. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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iFive: Twitter's Value Doubles, Al Jazeera's Social Show, Verifone Embraces Wireless Payment, PS3s Impounded, China Hacks France

Welcome to the start of the week--let our iFive summary bring you up to speed with the early tech news:READ»

How Much Are You Worth?

It's the most compelling, preoccupying question we measure ourselves by every day, and it has very little to do with money. I'm talking about "worth" as in self-worth and "value," as in the degree to which we feel valued by others, and valuable in the world.READ»

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Why Pretty Pictures Are Not Enough

Make sure your business looks good without makeupREAD»

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Show Me a Market Problem and I'll Show You a Business Opportunity!

Me too businesses rarely become success stories. Wildly successful entrepreneurs see market problems as business opportunities. They understand the importance of filling a market void to create unique value and build great businesses that become market leaders not followers. READ»

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What Should You Have Bought? AAPL Stock or Apple Products?

That Apple PowerBook G3 250 you bought back in 1997 may have some nostalgic value, sure, but if you had simply bought up some Apple stock instead you'd be sitting on real value, to the tune of about $330,563.READ»

Renaming Digital Piracy: A Smokescreen to Hide Movie's True Worth?

"Oh ar, oi'm a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!"...does that sound sexy to you? Does it bring visions of a be-hatted Johnny Depp to mind? According to some content providers it might, and they want to rename online piracy. Losers.This ...READ»

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Apple's iPad Disrupting the Network TV Business Model? I'd Buy That for a Dollar!

The iTunes pricing debate is be getting hotter, as the iPad's launch date approaches, with news that networks are wary of Apple's lower price plans. The TV industry's following the music and publishing biz here...will things be ...READ»

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Does Your Consultant Amount To “Value” or “Cost”? 10 Questions every CEO should ask when hiring an external consultant

   As a CEO, hiring an external consultant is a serious and necessary resourcing step, focused on desired company value and results. For you it is critical to assure success, when introducing an outside consultant to the ...READ»

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation

When I consider bidding for something on e-Bay, the first thing I do is check the reliability rating of the seller. When I want to meet a hard-to-reach executive, I try to establish a link through my network. When I consider which ...READ»

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Will Work For...

Could you make a living doing what you do just off of donations?READ»

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The Most Valuable Team

In 2005, Malcolm Glazer bought the Manchester United Football Club for $1.5 billion, creating enormous controversy. Glazer designed his takeover of Man U so as to make himself a majority shareholder (now 75%), ending the team's ...READ»

Thinking about L10n

While many of the projects I work on at Learning Worlds are about communicating ideas using visual narratives, it's the localization (or L10n) part that I think about the most.  Unlike the act of translating text in a document, the ...READ»