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Ari Wallach's Career Solution: Become A Real-Life Problem Solver
Ari Wallach, 37, heads a consulting firm that draws power from an eclectic mix of unconventional experts. Resolving conflict through discourse is the theme of a career spanning politics, commerce, and...
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Wikipedia Goes To College
Wikipedia wants academics to write content, and students to fact-check articles for academic credit. Wikimedia's ambitious university project also has another goal: To crack previously resistant...
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Microsoft Cloud Tech For 7 Million Indians, Sony To Spend $926 Million On...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Microsoft Cloud Tech Will Reach 7.5 Million Indians. Microsoft has signed a deal with the All India Council for Technical...
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Gilt Groupe Founders Reveal How Their Booming Brand Keeps Its Air Of Exclusivity
The massive online shopping business still makes users feel like they're let in on fashion's best kept secret. Here's how.Before launching Gilt, we’d agreed to put ourselves forward as the faces of the...
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Are You Truly Indispensable At Work--Or Just Fooling Yourself?
Committing to make yourself indispensable is one of the most important steps you will take toward being successful and living a fulfilling life. Making yourself indispensable is not about position,...
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Trippy Triggers Travel Talk With "Lowest Conversational Denominator"
Everyone likes to talk about travel, says Trippy's founder and CEO, J.R. Johnson. His site and app helps them do just that.J.R. Johnson is the founder and CEO of Trippy, a social travel site and app....
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Will You Know When It's Time To Change The Direction Of Your Business?
Kurt Abrahamson, CEO of ShareThis and veteran of Social Media Networks, talks about the time he learned when an innovative new product just wasn't enough.[twistage 16bfd585d6ec9]For more bite-sized...
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Pay Attention To Your Detractors
Surrounding yourself with yes men and women is good for the ego, but for business, not so much, says Rachel Sklar, founder of Change the Ratio.[twistage 1d6c743fb3599]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom...
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The Dark Side Of Smartphone NFC Tech
The UAE has just launched an effort to embed its National ID card system into smartphones. Yup, that could mean you have to carry your phone at all times. Scary. Could it happen here?We write a lot...
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Amazon Massively Inflates Its Streaming Library Size
Amazon counts individual episodes, not whole series, as "TV shows," which makes its Prime streaming catalog seem 10 times bigger than it actually is. Amazon boasts that it has "more than 17,000 movies...
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Change Is Good--But Don't Forget To Ask Why
Scott Case, CEO of Startup America Partnership, says changes and pivots in business are fine, you just need to be clear about why you feel you need to make them.[twistage bbf006d9a528f]For more...
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Leave the Cannoli, Take the Feedback
Andy Forssell, SVP of Content at Hulu, advocates having a band of trusted advisers to help steer you through business storms and successes.[twistage a03c5dd05fc3d] For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on...
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How Slated Remakes Indie Film Finance
Battles between filmmakers and their financiers are legendary. How does the equation change when a film has 2,000 investors?Duncan Cork (above, right) and Stephan Paternot (left) are the cofounders of...
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Behold The Slingshot Drone
Scientists in Utah have found a novel way to map wetlands: Launching UAVs into the air with a giant slingshot.Researchers at Utah State University are launching slingshot-like UAVs into the air... for...
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How Jay Want Prescribes A Change In The Business Of Paying For Health Care
This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Jay Want sees a more efficient and cost-effective future for health-care payments. Photo by Matt Nager...
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Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution
The food truck phenomenon has taken the country by storm. From New York to Los Angeles, the number, the variety, and the quality of food trucks are on the rise. In 2011, the mobile food industry in the...
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Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company--And Make Your Employees Happy
Everybody likes to be liked. And unless you’re the type of boss who revels in tyranny, it’s only natural to seek the favor of your underlings. But there’s a big difference between engaging with...
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Google Proposes Stock Split, Germany Stays Firm On iCloud Push Ban, B&N...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.YouTube Extends Partner Program Reach. YouTube has extended the reach of its YouTube Partner program to 20 countries. This means...
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This Week In Bots: Real-Life Terminators, Titanic-Preserving Robots,...
This week the U.S. military took one step toward making the freakish humanoid robots of Arnold Schwarzenneger's Terminator films a reality. For real. Thank heavens there's friendlier (and tastier!) bot...
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories feature some advice on how to focus, be happy, and cherish every day of the week (that’s right, even Monday)....
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