With Connect, Getty Images Leaps Into The 21st Century
Getty Images is getting with the 21st century today.With its new Connect system, Getty is making it easier for web publishers and certain platforms like blogging tools to embed Getty's image products...
View ArticleHow The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money
People can feel trapped by their careers--whether it's because they're earning too little, are waiting for a big payout, or have grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Laura Vanderkam's new book, All...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Announces $199 Nook Tablet, DataWind Off The Aakash Case,...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Google To Stream Stock Data From LSEG. Google and the London Stock Exchange Group have partnered up. According to the agreement,...
View ArticleSmile, You're On (Digital) Camera: TASER's New Police Minicam And The Cloud
TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop's POV to the cloud. The idea? They will help prevent police...
View ArticleWhy Clear's Dead-Simple List Stands Out In The To-Do Market
It's easy, it lets you swipe away tasks, and you literally can't get too detailed while using it. And Clear might just be the thing you need to make knocking out tasks fun again.There’s a lot that’s...
View ArticleApple Rumor Patrol: Fatter, Faster iPad 3, Later iPhone 5, MS Office For iPad
iPad 3 FatterNextMedia has gotten ahold of what they're saying is an iPad 3 rear shell, and photos of this thing are all over the web. It's consistent with previous rumored hardware, but for the first...
View ArticleBetter Ways To Give It Away: Philanthropy 2.0
Our distrust is very expensive.--Ralph Waldo EmersonAs the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation recently discovered, mixing mission and politics can cost an organization both credibility and dollars....
View ArticleHow Googley Is Yandex Anyway?
The Russian search company has just announced a collaboration with Twitter. Here's how they're becoming more like Google--and also how they also zag with every Google zig. Yandex and Twitter just...
View ArticleUser Experience The Don Draper Way
Products, pages, profiles, and entire click paths are often narcissistic by design, taking into account the needs of decision makers and stakeholders over the customers they’re designed to entice....
View ArticleProgress Report | Reinvent The Wheel
GOAL | Reinvent the Wheel PROJECT | Bridgestone "Airless Concept Tire" Thesis Flat tires generate more than 3 million AAA calls each year, and blowouts can easily cause auto accidents. But what if...
View ArticleSkunkworks, Reorganization, And Other Tactics To Excel In The Digital Age
Outside of the technology sector, most of the large companies that I encounter are startlingly similar. They're massively successful, indisputably recognized as world-class leaders by consumers and the...
View ArticleFast Talk: How Warby Parker's Cofounders Disrupted The Eyewear Industry And...
Meet Neil Blumenthal, cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. He tells Fast Company how a pact over a beer at the company's inception helped its founders preserve their friendship.Last year saw 500%...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Way To Use Your Social Network Strategically
If it’s a clear night tonight, go outside about 9 p.m. and look west at the two brightest stars, beautiful as jewels, one above the other. Low to the horizon will be the planet Venus, the “evening...
View ArticleFab CEO Jason Goldberg On When To Go Big (He Should Know)
In the last two weeks, the design flash-sale site has added five verticals and opened a site in Germany. Isn't that expanding kind of fast for a company that's not even a year old? Fab has been a busy...
View ArticleRhapsody, Spotify, Netflix, And The 28-Day Waiting Game
The music industry may soon be acting even more like the film business and delaying streaming songs to avoid cannibalizing sales."Windowing," says Jon Irwin, CEO of subscription-based music streaming...
View ArticlePlayStation's Jack Tretton On Today's Vita Launch [Video]
Today marks the American launch of the PlayStation Vita, Sony's latest handheld gaming device. We talk with Sony Computer Entertainment America president Jack Tretton about producing a dedicated game...
View ArticleInnovating Office For iPads: Or, Why Microsoft Should Stop Worrying And Learn...
The tablet-based publication (tab-lication?) The Daily is embroiled in a fuss about its leak of plans to bring Microsoft's Office suite to the iPad. The Daily's convinced the software is for real, but...
View ArticleGoogle May Sell AR Glasses This Year, New Premium Ads Expected From Facebook,...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.UK Govt. Calls For Innovation, Alternatives To GPS. There's a sore need to innovate in the navigation space and create GPS...
View ArticleBrands Get Physical To Build Trust
From handshakes to hardware, intimate signals constantly affect us in life. As the world becomes increasingly digital, we are losing many sensory signals that once moved us. Here's what can companies...
View ArticleHow To Pitch A Startup In Three Minutes
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