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GameStop At A Crossroads
The game industry is entering a digital future. To maintain a place in it, retail chain GameStop has scaled the used game buy-back model that first made it a success--now it's buying used companies,...
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This Week In Bots: Are You Ready To Be More Machine Than Man And/Or Woman?
All the recent advances in robots that grip onto asteroids, walk like dogs, and replace damaged human limbs. Enjoy! Bot Vid: JPL's Asteroid GripperThere's all sorts of crazy-wonderful plans about...
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Tracking Facebook's IPO Day On Social Media
Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors. [View the story "Tracking Social Media Reaction to the Facebook IPO" on Storify]
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Facebook Acquires Karma
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Because simply having the largest IPO in U.S. history isn't enough for Facebook, the social network also went shopping. The social gifting mobile app...
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Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage Of All-Star Races
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Twitter and NASCAR announced a digital partnership Friday that will bring NASCAR enthusiasts the tweet-by-tweet of the Pocono 400 race on the weekend...
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.We released our annual Most Creative People list this week. As usual, it was wildly popular. Though we have decided not to include...
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Facebook IPO: A Mega Meta Mashup Of Media
We hacked through the media coverage surrounding Facebook's massive IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups in one linkable extravaganza.It might sound a little strange claiming that a company...
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Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis
Since 1982, historian Robert Caro has been chronicling the life of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The first three volumes of the Years of Lyndon Johnson series were met...
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Reid Hoffman On PayPal's Pivoted Path To Success
Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, explains the five pivots of PayPal. PayPal pivoted not once, not twice, but at least five times before finding the innovative business model that led to its...
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Monster Seeks Fresh Mojo By Merging Facebook Networking App BeKnown With Its...
Will it be enough to catch its many competitors? Monster.com is trying to prove it still has all the right credentials in a market infiltrated by specialized job boards, job aggregator sites, and...
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Leap Motion's 3-D System Is Like A Kinect For Controlling Your Computer
Forget about jet packs. A San Francisco startup is about to bring "Minority Report"-style control to your computer.We might not have jet packs yet, but apparently the ability to control our computers...
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Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon's 4 Rules For Tattoo-Level Brand Loyalty
As I write this, a fitness club owner in South Carolina named Radley West is undergoing surgery to donate a kidney to a man named Ryan Brooke. Ryan isn’t her husband, son, brother, or cousin. He’s a...
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Twitter Blocked Then Restored By Pakistan's Censors On Blasphemy Grounds
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Yesterday the telecom authorities in Pakistan ordered a nationwide blocking of the entirety of Twitter, at the instruction of the country's Ministry...
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"Ghost Recon" Comes To Facebook--Will It Zap Zynga?
Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon Commander," a Facebook version of the megapopular gaming franchise, is one of the most ambitious games ever created for Facebook. Will other game firms follow in its heavily...
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14 Amazing Questions For BuzzFeed's Ben Smith
Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that...
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Why You Should Start a Company In... Greenville, South Carolina
The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing...
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8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
Several years ago I was in the Thomson Building in Toronto. I went down the hall to the small kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee. Ken Thomson was there, making himself some instant soup. At the...
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Microsoft Quietly Debuts New Social Network, So.cl
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Via Techdows: Microsoft launched its own under-the-radar social network over the weekend. So.cl, pronounced "social," [Ed note: Nuh-uh!] is a...
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Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff
From Bogota to Tunisia, “bad diplomat” Suzanne Philion has spent a decade shaking up old-school notions of a career in Foreign Service.You know the picture of Hillary Clinton on the plane, texting with...
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Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention
19-year-old Egyptian physics student Aisha Mustafa is someone we may see again in the media in the future because though young she's patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that makes...
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