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More than one in six marriages over the past three years were the result of relationships begun online, a recent study on social media and dating behavior found. When so many people are turning to the Internet to find soul mates, you can rest assured they are looking online for everything else – from their next pair of Oakleys to a new optometrist – and if you are a business seeking customers, you are well-advised to look online, too. You've ...

At Y Combinator's AngelConf yesterday, Michael Arrington bemoaned the proliferation of, as he called them, "dipshit companies." I suppose by this he meant companies that offer unassuming products and services--and entrepreneurs whose chief ambition is to sell out to a larger enterprise for a relatively small amount of money. There's something undeniably seductive about this line of thinking, especially as it applies to so-called Web 2.0 start-ups, which often offer dead simple services built on top of existing ones. After ...

Earlier this summer, I endorsed the prediction that we'd see sub $100 eReaders from the likes of Amazon, etc. by the end of the year. Maybe. Welll, you can now forget that "maybe" as far as I'm concerned. Amazon announced this week that it's Kindle line will now be starting at $139, by next month. There's a no-name eReader brand (Copia) that will soon be out for $99 (here we are!).eReader prices are sinking like a stone. I believe they ...

CNN checks in with Trevor Blackwell, the founder of Anybots, a company that is attempting to help CEOs micromanage, even when they're nowhere near the office. With robots!When Trevor Blackwell...wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles. "I can see if people are busy on something -- and then won't interrupt them," he said this week. "Or, you know, if they're doing something that looks interesting, or if they look stuck, I'll ...

Blackberry's parent company, Research in Motion, will reportedly launch a tablet to go up against the iPad in November. The story comes from Bloomberg quoting "two anonymous sources familiar with the company's plans".Although RIM has not blessed the story, we do know this; it has registerd the web address "blackpad.com". Those same sources say that this is what the tablet will indeed be called.I hope this isn't true. Memo to tech industry from a woman; anything ending in "pad" is ...

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:Cashing in on clutter. Today's Wall Street Journal tells the story of Matt Paxton, founder of Clutter Cleaner, and how he used reality TV to gain exposure for his brand. When the company first started and Paxton was cash-strapped, he posted a message on Facebook, asking friends if they had any connections in the television industry. That initial request led ...