Social Ad Spending To Reach $10B Soon, But How Much For Facebook?
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.A new survey from BIA/Kelsey has looked at the trends in advertising on social media and concluded that by 2016 it'll be a market topping $10 billion...
View ArticleVerizon Will Suspend Remaining 3G Unlimited Data Plans This Summer
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Via FierceWireless: Should Verizon’s current 3G customers decide to migrate toward 4G LTE pastures, their $30 unlimited data plans won’t be going...
View ArticleApple Rumor Patrol: Screen Mania, Skinny MacBook Pros, And iCloudy Delights
The iPhone's 4-IncherWe've often suspected that the Wall Street Journal is an "official" leak source used by Apple to seed the media with slightly more directed rumors about its upcoming products. And...
View ArticleHow To Make The Most Of Your Too-Short Work Break
If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off...
View ArticleFacebook Insiders Cash Shares In, Pre-IPO Hackathon, New Apps
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The additional shares available on IPO that Facebook revealed later yesterday actually won't make Facebook itself any cash--they are actually being...
View Article5 Steps To Choosing The Right Challenges
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply...
View ArticleThe 6 Huge Hiring Mistakes Everyone Makes
You need a top-notch team to do your best work--but you need to hire them first. Here's half a dozen common ways managers shoot themselves in the human-resources foot. If you can recruit people who are...
View ArticleFree Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn't Suck
More business-friendly than Groupon, and more respectful of user data than Facebook, Merchant Exchange is a one-stop shop for rewards programs. It'll save you money without creeping you out.Michael...
View ArticleJ. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar...
J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar." Steve Jobs didn't just design hit...
View ArticleChris Mohney Storyboards Tumblr's Chaos
What would you do if you were named the first-ever editor of one of the world's fastest-growing media companies and put in charge of a publishing platform with about 44 million users? Chris Mohney on...
View ArticleIn 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online
In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now.Is Facebook worth the $100 billion or so its pending IPO suggests it is? Who...
View ArticleHarvard Business School For The Facebook Age
Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away....
View ArticleDerrick Ashong On Going Viral, Again and Again
Whether in the role of front man for world-music band Soulfege, hosting an award-winning TV show, or creating a better business model for independent artists, Derrick Ashong is just trying to...
View ArticleTwitter Using Social Info From The Web To Recommend Follows For You
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Yesterday evening Twitter revealed a new service to its millions of users: Suggested follows. It's an expansion of its current recommendation engine...
View ArticleGood Eats: Meals With A Mission Makes Charity Intimate, Tasty
Gala dinners are too big. How about a smaller donation pool over a home-cooked meal?Scott Tanksley is the founder of Meals with a Mission, an Atlanta-based startup. The idea animating Meals with a...
View ArticleProof That Pinterest Drives Sales, And Its Fans Spend Big
Pinterest users not only buy the products they pin, but spend more on average than their Facebook counterparts, according to new data from Shopify.Pinterest just picked up a cool $100 million in...
View ArticleClayton Christensen's Personal Quest To Help You Measure Your Life
Since graduating from Harvard Business School in 1979, Clayton M. Christensen has observed personal tragedies in the lives of his fellow MBAs, from a string of unhappy marriages, estranged children,...
View ArticleJoel Stein, The World's Best Self-Promoter, On How To Be The World's Best...
Joel Stein wrote a book, "Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity," and went to outrageous lengths to promote it. Then he wrote this article so you can steal his ideas (and of course, to promote his...
View ArticlePhil Fernandez And Marketo's Mission: Eliminate Cold Calling Forever
Meet Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and believer that cold calling should go the way of the dinosaur. When he was still a kid, Phil Fernandez loved to paint and sculpt. So much that he devoted 12...
View ArticleIn Daymond John's World, For Every Startup, A Sexy Celebrity Pitchman
"I think tech is lacking sexiness," says Shark Tank personality and FUBU founder Daymond John. "I want to bring my understanding of lifestyle and culture to Silicon Valley." He's getting started by...
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