About four years after it launched, Meetup decided to charge for its services, which allow users with common interests to organize face-to-face meetings offline. Immediately, the startup lost some 95% of its activity. CEO Scott Heiferman says that startups need to implement such risky strategies to elevate their products, and to see what the real demand for such services is. ...

A couple of days ago, a BusinessWeek columnist, Liz Ryan, got everyone all hot and bothered by writing about sex at work. Sex at work is a reality, Liz Ryan argued. And it's time everyone just acknowledged that. (One lawyer told Ryan that his firm had had to remove cameras from office stairwells because they kept recording attorneys jumping each ...

Here’s some disconcerting news for Microsoft: It may not matter how good Bing really is because most consumers will always assume it’s not as good as Google. Search Engine Land reports that a new study conducted by SurveyMonkey has found that most consumers will prefer any search results that have the Google label on top of them, even if they’re ...