Apple Rumor Patrol: The iPad 3 Cometh Edition
The iPad 3 ScreenApple's press invite to the March 7th event in Apple's usual stomping ground of the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco (matching its predicted date) carried a simple image of a...
View ArticleApple, Microsoft, And The 3-D Desktop Of Your Dreams
The movies, game consoles, and smartphones have already gone 3-D crazy. Soon we may routinely print out things in 3-D tangible form. But thus far there's one aspect of consumer tech that's remained...
View ArticleThe 6 Near-Fatal Mistakes We Made In Year One, And How We Built A Company Anyway
Launching a startup is like firing off a rocket ship, then trying to hold it together with duct tape. Simply surviving feels like success.The goal, in fact, of most new enterprises is to hang in until...
View ArticleFast Company's Must-Attend Events In March 2012
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View ArticleThe Recommender: Tim Quirk, Kenneth Parks, Pete Holmes, And More On What...
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View ArticleFacebook Puts Marketers On Notice: Ready Or Not, Timeline Is Here
Facebook, a company known for creating and continuously improving the ways that marketers connect with customers, is at it again. Today, Facebook announced the launch of its new Timeline Brand Pages to...
View ArticleWhat To Do And See At SXSW, For The Gamer To The Style Buff
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View ArticleHow Alcoa, Starbucks, Arista, And Febreze Kicked Normal Habits And Found Success
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View ArticleDon't Let Culture Vultures Scuttle Your Strategy
Step inside any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it.Debate and difference of opinion, lightly salted...
View ArticleExperience Is The Next Frontier In Marketing
As antithetical as it may seem in a hyper-digital word, experience--how we interact in the physical world--is the biggest buzzword in marketing today. Here's how smart companies are considering...
View ArticleFast Talk: How Hipster Gets Everyone Talking About It
Meet Doug Ludlow, CEO of the postcard site Hipster, whose viral marketing campaigns have almost overshadowed the product itself.Doug Ludlow is the CEO of Hipster, a virtual postcard site that has been...
View ArticleLearning To Be A Power Listener
In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information. Though the necessary information...
View ArticleAndrew Breitbart Dead At 43, SETI Crowdsources, Branson "Versus" Assange For...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple Wins Injunction Against Motorola. In the tit-for-tat battle between Apple and numerous companies over IP, Apple's just one a...
View ArticleHow To Lose Friends And Alienate Twitter Followers: 5 Stupid Social Media...
When I interviewed entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki recently, I chatted with him at great lengths about his Twitter publishing habits. Take a look at his feed, and every few minutes you'll see a...
View ArticleWith "Versus" Debate Series, Google Attempts To Inject Content, Life Into...
Does the world need more telegenic talent shouting opinions at one another? Google thinks it does.In a blogpost today, Google's YouTube team announces "Versus," which it says is all about "liberating...
View ArticleWhy Comcast Will Crush Netflix
I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from...
View ArticleNew Facebook Timeline Tells Livestrong's Story Of Endurance
CEO Doug Ulman explains how the new social tool puts the emphasis on overcoming challenges over time, something Lance Armstrong knows about. In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman, the...
View ArticleWhat Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples
This is the first post in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss, a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton. Read the first installment, Are You A...
View Article"The Hunger Games" Takes Cue From Hitchcock And Spielberg, As Kids Fight To...
Liam Hemsworth will send off Jennifer Lawrence to battle their peers in The Hunger Games. Nothing makes moviegoers squirm like watching children die on the big screen. As The Hunger Games--in which 24...
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: The Real Life Avatars Edition
Bot Vid: Quadrotor. James Quadrotor.The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab has done it again--another quadrotor video that'll make you gasp. This time the team has taught a swarm of quadrotors to...
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