Community is, in a large way, the root of Product Hunt?s success.

Kudos to the guys at Heldergroen for coming up with an innovative way to provide a healthy work-life balance to their employees.

Oliver Samwer and his brothers Marc and Alexander are on the brink of becoming Germany’s newest billionaires with the flotations of Rocket Internet and the European online fashion site Zalando it helped launch in 2008.

For decades the smart home has been a tantalizing dream just out of reach. There are hundreds of connected devices on the market, but competing standards mean they often can?t talk to one another or learn your routines. Consumers need a half-dozen different apps to manage it all, making the process feel more like a chore than a futuristic butler. Even in January of 2014 we felt firmly stuck with the dumb state of the smart home.

Over the long-term, Uber has already said that it wants to get self-driving cars in its fleet, but even Elon Musk says that technology is still 5 or more years away from being a reality.

The business of making software for online surveys is pretty easy to understand: You find people who want to conduct surveys and sell them access to software that creates forms they can circulate. ?That?s all a survey is?it?s a form with an analytics component,? says Ryan Smith, the co-founder and chief executive of Qualtrics, one of the bigger names in the online survey industry. ?We have the best form.?

When you graduate from college with a degree in communication studies and rhetoric, the business world can look very confusing. Unsure of where I fit in, I explored options. Many friends suggested sales. I was doubtful. I worried that being in sales would not carry the prestige and credibility I so badly wanted as I started my professional career. I was also having a hard time getting excited about selling any particular product.

Mail.ru, Russia?s most popular email provider, this morning announced that it has paid $1.47 billion for the 48% that it did not already own of VKontakte, Russia?s most popular social network. Mail.ru already owns Odnoklassniki, the second-most popular network. It?s as if Gmail (if it were an independent company) were to buy Facebook.

A long-simmering feud between North Carolina?s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls and day spas is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case, North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission, are scheduled for Oct. 14, the ADA (American Dental Association) News reports.

When I?m talking with entrepreneurs or recruiters who are looking for advice on how to recruit the right marketer for a position, I always tell them that there is no perfect candidate, or perfect place to find them. Inevitably, it?s a lot of networking, LinkedIn and sweat.