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By Gus Lubin and Lawrence Delevingne

It's officially turkey time again.

Thanksgiving means cooked gobbler, smothered in gravy, wedged in-between…

By Vincent Fernando and Gus Lubin Ahh the Gold Party, a unique and recent phenomenon whereby friends and acquaintances gather to share drinks, food, laughter... and sell their gold.

It's like a Tupperware party, except 'everyone walks away with money'. Great.

Problem…

By Gayathri Vaidyanathan Gold's over $1,100 an ounce now!  So it's time to go find some.

This is a primer on how to set up a gold mine on a pristine mountaintop in, say, Peru. With a few dollars and a craving for many more, you can dig money out of the ground and wreck the…

By Joe Weisenthal

In the US, typically, it's hard to get too excited about vending machines. You've got your cans of cola, bagged chips, maybe some candy, and that's about it.

But overseas, vending machines are much, much bigger deal. Of course, Japan is the…

By Julie Hansen Hiring is the most important thing a manager does. And everyone makes mistakes doing it, regardless of how thorough they've been or sophisticated their process is.

I've made plenty, ranging from conducting inadequate searches to hiring -- and worse, retaining --…

By Bianca Male and Nicholas Carlson Social games industry leader Zynga has gotten a lot of heat for making money indirectly through lead-generation scams. But it's hardly the only guilty party.

Facebook and app-maker Serious Games must be counted too.

First, some…

By Lawrence Delevinge Even when times are tough, not everyone is exactly living up to the vigorous, enterprising stereotype of rugged American individualism. Put more bluntly, some people are just lazy. They watch too much TV; they… Read More »