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iFive: Twitter's Growth, YouTube Gets "Channels," iPad Delays RIM PlayBook,...
1. Darling of the social media scene Twitter just revealed some stats for its recent performance, and they're pretty eye-popping: Over the first quarter of 2011 Twitter's tweet-per-day count grew 41%...
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The Anti-Blockbuster Way: Disrupt Your Business Rituals Before Someone Else...
It’s the spring of 2002, and you’ve just been invited to attend one of Blockbuster Video’s quarterly board meetings. Great news: the company’s stock has just hit a new high of $30, and spirits are...
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How To Turn Climate Skeptics Into Believers: Argue With Them On Warm Days
When it's cold in summer, climate change nonbelievers ask where the global warming is. When it's hot in winter, climate change activists tell people to step outside and see the changes we have wrought...
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What the Rise of Univision Means for Your Brand
"Every 30 seconds, a Latino turns 18 years old." Marketers, take note. Univision, the Spanish-language network, outperformed NBC in primetime last week, which makes twice in four weeks that it achieved...
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That Hot Librarian Fantasy? A New App Makes it Even Hotter
The Dewey Decimal System has never looked so... dewy.Bo Brinkman, an associate professor of computer science at Miami University in Ohio, is married to a librarian. One day, while listening to his wife...
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How This 20-Year-Old Israeli Entrepreneur Sold an Army General on His App
Shai Magzimof had a great idea for an Android app--but he had to serve time in the Israeli Army.A few months ago, Shai Magzimof found himself in the pitch meeting of his life.Of course, tech...
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Bing Launches iPad App Featuring Flipboard-like News
Today, Microsoft launched Bing for the iPad, an app that integrates the company's search experience with Apple's tablet. In essence, it's no different than Google's iPad app: You'll find all the...
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The Art of Listening Online
A few key strategies to make the most of brand monitoring can help your reputation in a big way.Five years ago, in a small town on the east coast of Canada, the team behind Radian6 realized that...
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Chrome Goes Tablet, Virus-Free Browsing, Gamestop's Facebook Store, and More...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.Google Secretly Making Chrome for TabletsStealth elements in Chrome's source code reveal...
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Is Larry Page's "Rip the Band-Aid Off" Approach to Reorg Good for Google?
The new/ old CEO is turning the Googleplex topsy-turvy rather quickly.Larry Page had barely stepped into the corner office at the Googleplex Monday morning before the re-shuffling began. Jonathan...
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Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan
Photograph by Benjamin LowyOpportunity: After fleeing marriage to a Taliban husband, Samiya Amiri found work--and the beginning of a new life--as a renewable-power engineer. | Photograph by Benjamin...
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Google Isn't Defending Android From Segmentation--A Secret Success Plan
Google's Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering, just stepped up to challenge media reports the Google was defending Android against fragmentation. Rubin says "no." And perhaps that's actually the secret to...
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Direct Thought Control of a Computer's Cursor: Say Hello to Your Mind-Reading PC
A science team has, for the first time, engaged a brain-reading electrode setup to allow a computer's cursor instructions to come from a living, thinking human brain.Brain-computer interfaces have long...
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Shopping Can Save Your Life
Is our consumer culture, focused on the constant purchasing of disposable goods, destroying our civilization? Quite possibly! But it's also, apparently, making us live longer and healthier lives....
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Rome2Rio, a Vehicle-Agnostic Travel Site, Launches
Planes, trains, automobiles--and ferries. The site helps you plan your trip, while ruining another '80s comedy.A new travel site called Rome2Rio launches today, the brainchild of two ex-Microsoft...
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Report: Google Ties 25% of Employee Bonuses to Success in Social
"Google hasn't gotten social right yet," said Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products, in a recent interview. Well, company employees better get social right soon--if they want to earn a good chunk of...
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Get 'em While They're Young: Apple to Sell iPads at Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us will soon be selling iPads alongside G.I. Joes, PlayStation games, and Legos. And did you know? One in five U.S. teens owns a tablet PC (which basically means an iPad). iPads: Apple's doin'...
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SAFE: A Formula to Decide Which Endangered Species Have the Best Shot
There are hundreds of animals on the IUCN Red List--the definitive list of animals that are threatened with extinction. On the other hand, there is a limited amount of money in the world dedicated...
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GE Building Astoundingly Thin Solar Panels (and the Biggest Solar Factory in...
You know those solar backpacks they sell? The ones you can't imagine anyone buying? Well, GE is trying to make them a lot more ubiquitous. They're working on making solar panels thinner and more...
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Smartphone's Tracking Geodata May Be as Personal as Your DNA
Lawmakers in Europe are concentrating their efforts on one aspect of online privacy that may be being overlooked in the rush to "check in" everywhere, and are suggesting your real-time (and historic)...
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