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Ecotality and BP Work Together to Roll Out Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

With the Nissan Leaf and GM's Volt hitting the streets in December, GE, BP, and a host of design stars are racing to install the gas pump's high-style replacement.READ»

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Tech Companies Still Top the Green Charts

Newsweek magazine may be in trouble, but its annual green rankings are one of the most comprehensive attempts to rank major companies based on sustainability. How does your company measure up?READ»

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Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?

The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»

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Windows Phone 7: This Name Does Not Sing to Me

Windows Phone 7 asks: Are operating system names going to steal the cell phone spotlight?READ»

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Can Rosetta Stone Reach the Fourth Level of Advantage?

Rosetta Stone is on a proven path, the same one that most of the highly disruptive companies of the past twenty years--Dell, RIM, Google--have trodden.READ»

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The New Windows 7 Phones: All You Need to Know

In the hours before Microsoft's Apple challenger launched, a slew of Windows phones surfaced. Then MS revealed a total of 10 phones for 30 countries. Most look like competitors to the current iPhone, not next year's. READ»

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Technology Designer Gadi Amit on What's Wrong With Green Design

Gadi Amit shares his own politically incorrect formula for sustainability: products that are beautiful, touch people emotionally—and don’t rust.READ»

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How Crowdsourcing Is Changing Business, Advertising, and Cause Marketing

We are now witnessing a second generation of crowdsourcing efforts in which social entrepreneurs are reinventing their industries filling the voids left by traditional businesses.READ»

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iFive: HP's Missing CEO, Facebook Cozies Up to Skype, Nintendo's 3DS Disaster, Dell's Tablets, Google's Happy Workforce

While you were busy sleeping others were busying themselves with the business of the day, so here's the early tech news, digested:READ»

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Infographic: Online Retailers' $44 Billion Customer Experience Problem

A new study by Harris Interactive and Tealeaf shows that online retailers lost as much as $44 billion last year due to poor online customer experiences.READ»

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iPad to Outsell Predictions in 2010, Make iTons of Money for Apple

The iPad is going to sell even more units in 2010 than we'd previously thought, and in 2011 it'll outsell Macs, unit for unit. So says a prominent industry analyst. He's probably right, and it bodes well for Apple's shareholders (as well as changing the entire PC business).READ»

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Dell Puts Less Crap In a Box

The computer manufacturer has eliminated 8.7 million pounds of packaging in a single year: good for the planet, great for Dell's bottom line. How did they do it?READ»

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From Winning to Crazy: How to Assess Your Company's Ideas

The review of Kaihan Krippendorff's strategy framework continues with a look at how to evaluate potential strategies to isolate those with the highest potential.READ»

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Apple's Great Japanese Nano Fires of 2010

Okay. Try to be calm. Put down your iPod Nano. Back away slowly. DON'T LOOK AT IT. Slowly now. Slooowly.READ»

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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Partners Revealed: HTC, Samsung, Dell, Asus, and LG

The fog is starting to clear on Windows Phone 7, and Microsoft today confirmed its hardware partners. And they include some very heavy hitters.READ»

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Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Others Join Google in Big Lobby Spending

As figures for the lobbying spend of Q2 of 2010 were released, all eyes were on Google. With a total of $1.34 million over the past three months, it's definitely an increase, as Consumer Watchdog will tell you. However, it's worth ...READ»

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The Divine Leadership Attributes of One of Silicon Valley's Best CEOs

Is it possible a Jesuit priest just might be one of the best chief executive officers Silicon Valley has ever known? Read about Santa Clara University's Father Paul Locatelli, his amazing achievements and, what makes him a standout CEO. READ»

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How to Make Your Supply Chain Human Rights Friendly

 Your cell phone could be promoting child warfare. Your laptop could be a product of illegal trade. Your MP3 player could be linked to human rights abuse. Some of the materials used to produce ...READ»

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Microsoft Reveals Cloud Computing System, Azure, eBay Partnership

Microsoft's Partner Conference for 2010 is just getting underway, and already some big news is coming out of the event: MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and ...READ»

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Guy Kawasaki on Twitter Brawls, Authenticity, and How He Plans to Win The Influence Project

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of the news aggregator Alltop.com, the former chief evangelist for Apple, and author of, among other titles, The Art of the Start. At the end of The Influence Project’s first week, Kawasaki sits ...READ»

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Chinese Working Conditions Raised ... Along With the Price of Gadgets?

The worker's environment in Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has been a sticky issue for Apple's PR department, but it's also highlighted one big fact: If Western firms stick with Chinese sources, gadgets will get more ...READ»

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Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It's not as easy as it looks.READ»

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How Warner Music and Its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales

Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.READ»

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Dell Lawsuit Highlights Broken PCs, Dirty Business Dealings

Lawsuits are looming over Dell that finally, publicly confirm something that many users have known for a long time--its machines are technically flawed. Did Dell's business rest on screwing over the user, in return for quick and dirty ...READ»