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5 Ways To Take Back Your Reputation On The Web
The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com. I got to wondering about...
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Apple's iMessage: All Your IMs Are Belong To Us (And Phone Network SMS...
When Apple first released its Messages overhaul for the way iPhones handle test messages, and enabled it on iPads too, it was a sign that the company could see ways to innovate the pretty-much stagnant...
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Mobile Payments For Everyone! Barclays Pushes Future Tech Into Now
Barclays bank, which already intertwines NFC chips and antennas into its banking cards in the UK, has just taken a page out of Apple's book and released a new mobile app that should shake up the UK...
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Employee Perks That Don’t Work
Over much of the last decade or two, the subject of work-life balance has been a hot topic in the business world. Such well-respected businesses as Google, Apple, and Microsoft have invested heavily in...
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Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It's Monitoring Facebook,...
The House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Counterintelligence and Intelligence was not pleased. (Insert "angry" emoticon here.)At a Congressional hearing this morning that veered into contentious...
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Why Pinterest Is So Addictive
I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest. If you are still among the uninitiated, the social platform for collecting, sharing, and commenting on of photos of personal...
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Google, Facebook Tracked Users On Safari, Amazon Overtakes Samsung As #2...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Ford Starts Shipping App Creator Toolset OpenXC. Ford has begun shipping beta versions of OpenXC, a platform to create apps for its...
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Fast Talk: How PopVox Gets Congress To Listen
Meet Marci Harris, who wants to fix your broken line of communication to Congress.Marci Harris is the CEO of PopVox, a website that lets organizations and individuals weigh in on legislation making its...
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Watch Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Salute RISD, Whip Off His Robe, Dance Like...
Picture the scene: It's 2004, and Brian Chesky, the future cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, runs up on stage in full cap and gown to the pulsating bass line of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Chesky's set...
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Bessemer Ventures: Why We Invested In Pinterest
Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good...
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5 Tools For Managing Your Personal Brand Online
Beyonce and Jay-Z recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect daughter Blue Ivy Carter's name--a probable first step to establishing the newborn's personal (and...
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What "Wizard101" Gave Up To Break Into China: Exposed Bones, Points, Gold
The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing...
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If Your Company's Culture Needs A Shot In The Arm, Do The Huddle
Steal this idea: At method, we have a special--and easy to replicate--way of keeping corporate culture humming even as the company grows. In 2005, a mutual friend introduced me to the lads at innocent....
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Apple, Google, Facebook, And Amazon Compete In India Over Mobile, Social...
Google's getting into hardware to take on Apple. And Apple could be planning a smaller iPad, to edge out Amazon's Kindle Fire. Facebook filed a whopping big S-1 for an IPO this year, while Amazon...
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This Week In Bots: Boldly Pounding Fists Where No Droid Has Before
Oribital gestures, child-like androids, robotic spacecraft--it's all in our robotic roundup. Far out.Bot Vids: RomeoAledbaran Robotics, best known for the pint-sized Nao research bot, have released the...
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The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Catch up on the stories readers deemed most clickworthy this week from Fast Company, Co.Design, Co.Create, and Co.Exist. This week, we revealed our annual Most Innovative Companies list. You devoured...
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Confidence, Conviction, Communication: 3 Ways Startups Can Step Up Their Game
Last month, I wrote an article about what large, established companies could learn from startups--lessons on remaining nimble and creatively driven at any stage or size. As the founder of a branding...
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In Defense Of The Not-So-Lean Startup
Last year, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, it was impossible to escape the concept of the "Lean Startup"--especially the great ideas espoused by the preeminent thought leader on the topic, Eric...
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Allow Cookies: Girl Scouts Enter The Digital Era With CEO Ana Maria Chavez
In the 21st century, Girl Scouts from all over the world can get together in the virtual realm to do good and learn skills for success. Here's how CEO Ana Maria Chavez is helping organize new digital...
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Culture Vs. Strategy Is A False Choice
Strategy seems to have fallen on hard times. In his recent Fast Company piece “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch,” author Shawn Parr joins a long list of commentators, psychologists, authors, and...
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