Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. In case you were one of the few who missed it this week, check out "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes." We have some great business and...
View ArticleTake The Time And Do It Personally
Simple things like taking the time to answer emails and tweets personally can go a long way to building good will, says Peter Shankman, founder of HARO. [twistage 648efc7b7fd80]For more bite-sized bits...
View ArticleThe Band's Ex-Tour Manager Blasts Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian, Kim Dotcom,...
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian debated USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and former tour manager of The Band at our recent Innovation Uncensored event....
View ArticleJerky Week, Part 1: How SlantShack Scales Artisanal Jerky
For the first installment of an important Fast Company investigation into the business of jerky, we talk with David Koretz of New York-based SlantShack. Watch him try to sell us a $12,000 beef jerky...
View ArticleYouTube Launches AdWords For Video
Video production is getting cheaper, so Google is creating a self-service option for pre-roll advertisements aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.Google's AdWords program has long been an easy...
View ArticleVodafone Spends $1.7 Billion To Become A More Powerful U.K. ISP
Breaking news from your Fast Company editors with updates all day.Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest and most powerful cell phone networks, has this morning spent a whopping £1 billion ($1.7 billion) to...
View ArticleAmazon's AmazonSupply Will Sell Industrial Tools And Lab Equipment
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.After cornering the online retail space for (e)books, electronics and consumer goods, Amazon is reaching out to a different kind of shopper. Their...
View ArticleFacebook And Microsoft Announce $550 Million Patent Deal
Facebook and Microsoft are partnering up for $550 million patent deal. Earlier this month, Microsoft picked up almost 1,000 patents from AOL, worth a shade over $1 billion, a deal that Facebook was...
View ArticleMeet Nick Bauta, The Designer-Entrepreneur Driving Providence's Industrial...
After a deadly fire, Providence officials enacted strict building codes that virtually dismantled the city's lively arts scene. The task has fallen to a RISD grad to rebuild it, one abandoned warehouse...
View ArticleThe 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making With Work Relationships
A major telecommunications company once commissioned some research to find out which attributes best predicted long-term leadership success. Why did some leaders succeed while others never really lived...
View ArticleBeginning A Beautiful, Long-Term Business Relationship
VP and brand strategist Lori Anne Wardi says that when a customer buys a .CO domain, the company does all it can to understand and promote their new business. [twistage 74f0cfcc96ae3]For more...
View ArticleHow Assignmint Will Change Freelance Journalism
A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry.New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it....
View ArticleApple's Financial Report: What To Expect From Tomorrow's Quarterly Results...
Apple's share price has dropped significantly in the last couple of weeks. This was possibly due to one analyst downgrading his expectations for Apple based on the assumption that cell phone operators...
View ArticleAsteroids Is A Game No More: Planetary Resources Plans To Mine One
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.As suspected, Planetary Resources has revealed an insight into its plans, which are due for a full reveal later today: The effort led by X-Prize's...
View ArticleWhy Your Business Needs To Take On Big Challenges
Jeff Spence, president and COO of Innovolt, says when setting goals and priorities he looks for the big challenges that will attract talent, investment, and great customers.[twistage c3be73528edea]For...
View ArticleCustomers Are People, Too
Patti Hart, CEO of International Game Technology, says it's important to see the customer is an individual first. Understanding them as people often speeds progress on providing products that delight...
View ArticleNetflix's Big, HBO-Inspired, 10-Year Bet On Original Content
The pilot episode of a new television series can send it rocketing toward ratings success, renewal, and eventual syndication, or plummeting toward cancellation. But in the world of Internet TV, says...
View Article"On Being" Host Krista Tippett's Tools For Dealing With Difficult Colleagues
“Forget about earthquakes and fires; everybody has a story about how bad people can be in the workplace," says Krista Tippett, host of the nationally syndicated radio show On Being. Here are some ways...
View ArticlePath.To's Social Media Mojo Transforms Your Facebook Posts Into A New Job
And by mojo, of course, we mean algorithm. Here's how job-matching site Path.To digs into your online life (not in a creepy way) to help find the right job for you. That banging noise you hear is one...
View ArticleHow (And Why) To Mine An Asteroid
Whirling lumps of cold space rock could one day help power our economy. Really. That's where the newly formed Planetary Resources comes in.You probably haven't thought too much about asteroids since...
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