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The USB Memory Stick Is Facing Extinction
Those tiny plastic USB memory sticks you've got on your desk or skulking in your laptop bag's pocket are soon to be relegated to the past. Innovation, and the mobile tech revolution, is to blame. Don't...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook On Cheap iPad Knockoffs: "You Hate It"
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a rare appearance today at Goldman Sachs' technology and Internet conference. During the presentation, Cook spoke on everything from supplier working conditions to the demise...
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Apple's Tim Cook On Foxconn: Data Transparency, Work Hours Cap On The Way
Apple is in full-court press mode in response to flack the company has taken about poor working conditions at its supplier factories. On Monday, Apple issued a press release saying it will allow the...
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Follow-Up: Tim Cook On Apple Defeating Law Of Large Numbers
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs event yesterday, Tim Cook tackled a topic we've tried to delve into before: How Apple's fantastical financial figures keep going up, defying analyst's thinking.Back in...
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Former Sun CEO Launches A Site To Manage Your Loved Ones' Health Care
Managing the care of an aging parent or child with a chronic illness is getting increasingly complicated. CareZone makes it simple.Innovation doesn't always have to be about flashy features or giant...
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Custom Jeans Won't Make Your Butt Look Big, Will Change The Way You Shop
The future of shopping means every garment--and shopping experience--can be customized to fit both your body and your thirst for discovery.I’ve seen this scenario before, but I will not name names. A...
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Meet Radio Free Europe's Tech Justice League
The Broadcasting Board of Governors is turning to Silicon Valley to help revitalize Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America. A new innovation commission includes big names from Facebook, Twitter,...
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NPR Launches An Answer To Spotify On The iPad With Streaming, Concerts,...
Today, NPR launched the NPR Music app for the iPad, a new platform that gives listeners access to streaming content, first-listen albums, and live concerts. But why should a nonprofit care about this...
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How To Pivot Faster Than Your Competition
I am sitting in a bakery minutes from my house, steps away from the train station, watching still-sleepy counter workers shuffling brioches and muffins to a rising flow of customers. I shouldn’t be...
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What Tim Cook Said At Goldman Sachs
Tim Cook is a very different chap than his predecessor, in many ways from his business know-how to his education and manner of speech. We got more insight into all of these during his address at...
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4 Branding Tips For When The Bloom Is Off The Rose
Americans spent an estimated $17.6 billion this year on Valentine's Day dinners, flowers, chocolates, and other seductive gifts. But in this era when brands struggle to cozy up to their customers 365...
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Urgency And Optimism: Corporate Culture The Michael J. Fox Foundation Way
CEO Todd Sherer wants to put the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF)--the world’s largest private funder of Parkinson’s Disease research--out of business, all in the name of finding the cure.Todd Sherer...
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It's Good To Be Bad: Scandalous Brand Building
When British rapper M.I.A. flipped her middle finger to more than 110 million Super Bowl TV viewers two Sundays ago, it caused the NFL and NBC to flip out too. Rightly so. Both organizations have codes...
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Unmanned Drones Go From Afghanistan To Hollywood
Get to know the motion picture location scouting companies and real estate agencies using unmanned drones for aerial shoots in California--much to the chagrin of the FAA, the LAPD, and an agency...
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Why Spotify Turned Down Adele's "21"
You didn't read that backward. Adele was willing to have her album "21" available on the streaming music service. But Spotify would have had to change its whole strategy to accommodate her. If you were...
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Congress Quizzes Apple On Path, Google Updates Wallet With Partial Fix, Zynga...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Congress Quizzes Apple On Path's Contact Privacy Matters. While the tech world bickers and sometimes misunderstands the tech of the...
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Yahoo’s Prediction Engine Calls Presidential Race In Favor Of Obama (Sorry,...
Using smarty-pants economists and computer scientists, Yahoo analyzed historical data and says the math points to the prez taking the White House this fall.An entire industry has emerged to try to...
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Sharing App Bump 3.0 Slashes Most Features, Proves Less Really Can Be More
"It's been interesting talking about what's new with Bump 3.0 because the list of things that we're removing is longer than the list of things that we're adding," says Bump CEO David Lieb. "It's not a...
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New Mac OS X Mountain Lion Let Loose, Facebook Launching Verified Accounts,...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple Lets Loose Mountain Lion OS On Devs. Apple is releasing an early version of "Mountain Lion," their new OS for the Mac, to...
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Fast Talk: Why Fashion Designers Need To Embrace Their Inner Geek
Meet Jean-Paul Cauvin, a French designer and self-proclaimed non-geek who nonetheless saw the need to follow fashion's technological future.Jean-Paul Cauvin calls himself the binôme, or right-hand man,...
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