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A CEO Speaks Out About Speaking Out
People are more interesting than companies--so effective leaders are responsible for getting out there and spreading the good word.Here's the paradox: I run a company that's incredibly visible, but not...
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Follow Up: Cell Networks Fight To Be More Than Mere Data Pipelines
As the AP notes, at last week's Mobile World Congress there was a good deal of attention delivered to a company called Pinger. This was partly due to the company stall's fortuitous location at the...
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Raspberry Pi, Aakash: The Tale Of Two $35 Devices
Two portable computers aim to revolutionize education and access to technology across the world. As they begin pre-sales, here's a look at their rocky roads to reality.
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Bloom To Power iCloud Servers, Yelp's IPO, Apple To Launch TV Service By...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple To Use Bloom For Its Cloud. A new report says Apple is going to use Bloom, the strange, exciting new fuel cell tech company...
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Knight News Challenge Gives Away $5 Million On Tumblr
The 2012 Knight News Challenge is looking for a few good journalism projects to receive $5 million in funding... but applicants have to share their ideas with Tumblr's user base.The Knight Foundation,...
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When Loyalty Programs Are A Waste Of Money
In times like these, cost cutting and streamlining are compelling business strategies. Business executives sometimes have second thoughts about their loyalty programs and ask our consultants whether...
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5 Innovative Uses Of Timeline For Facebook Pages
More than a pretty new layout, here are the ways Timeline is helping everyone from Coldplay to Sierra Club and The New York Times to Doctors Without Borders rethink their public personas. Facebook...
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With At Bat 12, MLB Pitches New Features And New Pricing
For the hard-wired and digitally wired baseball fan, the season doesn't start when pitchers and catchers report to spring training. It starts when At Bat reports to the iTunes store. The wildly popular...
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The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network.This week readers go to work with useful insight on how to put...
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Big Brother Or Your Personal Concierge? Causata Makes Data Work For Customers
Companies gather ever more information about us, and better technology means they can crunch it faster. That should actually make for better service--and more interesting content.With all the...
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Bloomberg Expanding Tech Coverage
The financial news giant is launching a tech vertical, several new blogs, and creating original video content.The crowded tech news scene will become even more crowded this week--Bloomberg has...
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Syria Blocks WhatsApp, Square Launches Square Register, Selvadurai Is Leaving...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Sony Hack May Have Leaked 50K MJ Tracks. Hackers targeting Sony in the spring and summer months last year may have got away with a...
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When There's No Simple Solution At Work, Learn To Embrace The Mess
This is the third 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 Power...
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Fast Talk: Restaurant Software "By Waiters, For Waiters"
Meet Ansar Khan, whose experience working at his family's restaurant informed the development of his software, Ambur.Ansar Khan (left, with cofounder James O'Leary) is one of the developers of Ambur,...
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Barclaycard's Ring Calls On Crowd To Build A Better Credit Card
Turns out you don't have to be a banker or a mathlete to get into the credit card business. Barclaycard US is calling its new Ring card "the first social credit card to be designed and built through...
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Numecent Runs Photoshop, "Call of Duty," Windows 7, And More From The...
Imagine a world where there are no downloads. And no installations. No, that's not a reference to some nerd-ified version of a John Lennon song; it's fast becoming a reality thanks to Numecent, a...
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How Wall Street Bankers Use Seamless To Feast On Free Lobster, Steak, And Beer
The online service has simplified ordering out for all kinds of people, but corporate giants like Morgan Stanley make up a significant portion of Seamless's customer base. For some bankers who've...
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What Glass Ceiling? Killer Career Advice From Women Who Lead By Example
It's been more than 100 years since 15,000 women marched through the streets of New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay, and voting rights, but how much progress have women really made in the...
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Using Great Storytelling To Grow Your Business
Every two months, I pull together a community of innovators. We meet somewhere in New York City, usually a boardroom overlooking a park or cityscape. But last month we all found our way into an acting...
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Edmodo, A "Facebook For Schools," Chalks Up API To Become Classroom Platform
Digital adoption in schools has been slow because of the overhead involved. That changes today.Edmodo started out as the Facebook (or Yammer) for classrooms--a social network-style place for teachers...
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