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Oh, those whimsical Google nerds. The Mountain View-based search giant may not have Apple’s design chops, but it certainly knows how to code a good joke. We got a taste of that fact on Thursday with the highly popular “Do a Barrel Roll” search trick, which went viral on Twitter and...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: SideTour Quick Pitch: SideTour lets you experience the world with like-minded people. ...

CastleVille may be the newest “Ville” game in Zynga’s lineup, but it is a game all its own, thanks to its living world and MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) elements. The game, which is making its debut Friday on Facebook, brings many of the traditional elemen...

At face value, identity feels so simple. I’m just me, and you’re just you. But, enter the world of the web and everything becomes exponentially more difficult. Will we ever have the equivalent of a “driver’s license” (i.e., a ubiquitous ID that everyone seems to have)...

Oh, Mars. As the possible next step in human space exploration, the Red Planet is bound to be visited by us bipeds someday. So what’s the best way to make sure something doesn’t go wrong? Make a simulated, 520 day-long mission with real astronauts and see how things turn out. Mars500,...

In this fascinating raw footage from 1990, Steve Jobs talks at great length (for 50 minutes) to a WGBH-Boston interviewer about computers, the efficiency of human beings’ locomotion compared with the animal kingdom, his early experience with programming and his ideas about the direction he ...

In this fascinating raw footage from 1990, Steve Jobs talks at great length (for 50 minutes) to a WGBH-Boston interviewer about computers, the efficiency of human beings’ locomotion compared with the animal kingdom, his early experience with programming and his ideas about the direction he ...

Duke Greenhill is the founder and CEO of Greenhill+Partners, a premiere New York-based creative marketing agency specializing in luxury brands and engaging the emerging affluent. You can reach them at TheFutureOfBranding.com. Luxury brand marketing must preserve exclusivity — on that we can...

Groupon has raised $700 million after it set its strike price at $20 late Thursday night. It will begin trading publicly under the symbol “GRPN” on Friday. The strike price, well above Groupon’s stated target of $16 to $18, gives the company a value of $12.7 billion. That makes ...

Of all the social networks, Facebook is the only one that knows no generational limits. From grandparents to teenagers, Facebook — the largest of the social networks — attracts users of all ages. A recent study by Forrester found that of U.S. adults who use social networking sites, 96...