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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign?READ»

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Black Friday Shopping Spree Turns Dark

Amelia Nosehart liked to fly through the malls to get a head start on Christmas. But a policy she’d purchased from California Health Insurance agent Matt Lockard literally helped save her sight when “shopping” went horribly wrong. READ»

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Black Friday Shopping Spree Turns Dark

Amelia Nosehart liked to fly through the malls to get a head start on Christmas. But a policy she’d purchased from California Health Insurance agent Matt Lockard literally helped save her sight when “shopping” went horribly wrong. READ»

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Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

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Leapfrog's Great Leap Forward

What's the right way to launch a technology product in an era when technology has lost much of its luster? First, make the technology hard to see and easy to use. Second, do everything yourself -- from designing chips to running focus groups. Third, don't just sell products: Champion a platform. These are some of the principles behind the rise of LeapFrog Enterprises, whose stellar performance represents a strategic leap for the tech business.READ»

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Future Tense: Gear, Gadgets, Gifts

What to give your family, your colleagues -- and yourself -- for the holidays.READ»

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How Digital Music Ruined the Recording Industry (Plus Friday Apprentice Detritus)

I had an interesting conversation the other day with this guy--a hard-core audiophile--about a theory, widely held among his hi-fi purist peers apparently, of why CDs and digital music have ruined the music industry. The argument, ...READ»

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Mystery Play

It's Day 42. Mention that to pretty much anyone here in London and they'll know what you mean. In two days time, illusionist David Blaine will end his voluntary incarceration in a Plexiglas box suspended from a crane 40 feet above ...READ»