There’s been plenty said about RIM since it released its rough fiscal financials a few days ago, just about all of it negative. It’s hard not to be, honestly — the company reported its first operating loss in eight years, announced that a full 5,000 employees would be getting the axe, and topped it all off by revealing that the first BlackBerry 10 devices wouldn’t hit the market until the beginning of 2013

If you were hoping to spend the last couple days catching up with your favorite websites while maybe streaming a Netflix movie, you’ve probably discovered by now that you had pretty lousy timing for a lazy web-surfing weekend. On Friday, bad storms in the Southeastern United States knocked out a big swath of Amazon Web Services hosting infrastructure that led to full and partial outages for the likes of Instagram , Pinterest and Netflix. And just as the web was starting to bounce back from that, a planned “ leap second ” — the addition of one second onto the world’s official clocks to keep us on track with the actual rotation of the Earth — tripped up the functions of a number of other major websites including Reddit and Gawker.

The stereotype is that women generally enjoy talking and communicating more than men. But they haven’t always been known to be the most straightforward with the nitty-gritty of what they really think and feel — females are sometimes wired to be a people-pleasing bunch . But according to a recent article in the UK’s Daily Mail , some language experts say that today’s girls are becoming more blunt and direct, thanks to the rise of technologies such as texting and social media

Editor’s Note:   Guest contributor Catherine Cook is the VP, Brand Strategy of MeetMe, Inc., a social network for meeting new people, and co-founder of MeetMe’s predecessor myYearbook. She collaborated on this post with Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) and Jeremy Zorn, both of MeetMe, Inc.

Editor’s Note:  The following guest post by Thomas Clayton , the Chief Executive Officer of voice blogging startup Bubble Motion. Prior to Bubble Motion, Clayton was GM of the Worldwide Telecom Business at BEA Systems, an infrastructure software company acquired by Oracle for $8.5B USD. Clayton holds a BA from Harvard Business School and a BS degree from UC Berkeley.  It goes without saying that Facebook is the darling of this era’s technology boom.

Editor’s note : This post was written by guest contributor  Aaron Levie , CEO and co-founder of  Box.net . You can read his  previous posts here . The enterprise software market has been uncharacteristically turbulent of late.

Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. He is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com .

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Nobody likes to admit it, but if you’re a working professional, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with sweat stains. The commute to work, the stress of meeting a deadline, the faulty air conditioning in the boardroom, cotton weaves — all of these things and many more have been known to conspire against you, the working professional.

“I believe CrunchBase will gain a lot of attention from the academia soon, which is always eager for high-quality data set,” writes Guang Xiang of Carnegie Mellon University, who found that he could predict Mergers and Acquisitions much better using the unique business variables available in CrunchBase than the traditional databases used by academics.