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LightSquared Files For Chapter 11
Wireless Internet provider LightSquared has filed for Chapter 11 protection.LightSquared, the ambitious 4G wireless venture recently poised to bring lightning-fast Internet to the masses, filed for...
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For Toyota, JPMorgan, And State Farm, Arizona Is The Silicon Valley Of Data...
In the Phoenix metro area, sprawling data centers and fraud-prevention companies bloom like the cacti and agaves of a growing tech ecosphere. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New...
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Modify Watch's Low-Tech Business Takeaways From High-Tech Startups
West Coast business schools are entrepreneurial breeding grounds, but not just for the next hot thing in tech--here's what mix-and-match watch company Modify learned during its launch. I graduated from...
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Facebook Share Pricing Rumors Hint At High Demand, $100 Billion Valuation...
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Facebook's share price will likely be in the $34 to $38 range, according to sources speaking to AllThingsD, which puts its valuation near the...
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5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity
If your team spends its days asking for permission before executing, taking an hour to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you’ve got...
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Innovation Agents: Adam Braun, Justin Bieber, And Pencils Of Promise
It helps if your organization is on the radar of one of the world's--and social media's--most influential pop stars. But for Adam Braun, founder of education charity Pencils Of Promise, Bieber was just...
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Exclusive: New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User...
Larry Page recently called Google+ the company's "social spine." If that's the case, then Google's backbone might be much weaker than Page has been letting on, at least according to a new report from...
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Innovation Agents: Fab's Bradford Shellhammer Embraces Risk, Defines Design
Watch the cofounder of the e-commerce design site explain how he figured out a way to share his obsession--a breakthrough (and risky) moment that established him as the curator of a wildly successful...
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Hippie Capitalism: How An Impoverished U.S. City Is Building An Economy On...
With sky-high unemployment, Richmond, California, is not a place where traditional business models alone can dent poverty. The city has turned to co-ops in hopes that people who might be unemployable...
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GM Pulls Its Facebook Ads Three Days Before IPO
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Via WSJ: General Motors’ marketing executives have decided to pull the company’s $10 million in paid Facebook after deeming the efforts had “little...
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Patent Watch: Google Personalizing Search Like Facebook Personalizes News?
A fresh clutch of patent applications from Google hints at the mysterious search algorithm. Plus, ideas for product placement on YouTube and more on Google's Project Glass.Personalizing Google...
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How Great Entrepreneurs Lure Their Competitors' Sheep Away
About 2,000 years before Clayton Christensen coined “disruption” or Renee Mauborgne the “blue ocean,” Chinese strategists passed down a fable about a peasant who stole a sheep. The fable defines a...
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Will Fab Get Social Shopping Right?
Facebook's Beacon was a bomb. Will this e-commerce site figure out the right way to let friends see what friends are buying?Four and a half years ago, Facebook launched Beacon, a feature that showed...
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Fab.com: Ready, Set, Reset!
How Fab.com pivoted from a failed social network for gays to a retailing powerhouse valued at $200 million in less than 6 months. The third in our Pivot series. Bradford Shellhammer and Jason Goldberg...
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Why You (Yes, You!) Are The Future Of Branding
New research shows just how much we love to talk about ourselves. Twitter and Facebook have built massive platforms on this premise. How long before many other brands grab a piece of our action? You...
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Why You Should Start A Company In... Savannah
Steve Weathers, president and CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, shares five things you need to know about opening a business in the Hostess City of the South. UNITED STATES OF...
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Little Wows, And Other Ways To Make Your Business Remarkable
By establishing your business as the truly remarkable option in a field full of snoozers and look-alikes, you will get more free and effective publicity than any traditional advertising budget can...
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Mapping New York's Tech Jobs
New York City's government just announced a new listing service for tech jobs. But what about that pesky poor-business-broadband-in-NYC problem?New York City matters to tech. It's also a place where...
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The Mother Of All Branding Opportunities
Mother's Day recently got me thinking about the power of Mom. No, I'm not talking about her power to get us to finish all our vegetables or clean up our rooms--I'm talking about her power in 2012 to...
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With Knowledge Graph, Google Can Finally Tell The Difference Between Apple...
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.[youtube mmQl6VGvX-c#!] Google today launched the Knowledge Graph, a new search engine feature that helps users quickly find relevant information...
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