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A TV Platform So Disruptive Everyone's Suing It
We chat with Chet Kanojia of Aereo, the new TV-where-and-when-you-want-it service that has a few legal troubles. Could Aereo finally disrupt the loathed cable bundle--and TV altogether?Chet Kanojia is...
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What Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Should've Learned From Firefox In 2005
Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Jerry Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put a Yahoo competitor front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a...
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SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Makes Historic Rendezvous With ISS
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Following a successful launch on Tuesday--and a series of complex maneuvers demonstrating that it could be controlled both from the ground and by the...
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This Week In Bots: Saluting The First President Of The Robot Epoch
Bot vid: Darpa's RobbieOne of the more interesting robotics programs that DARPA funds is the Autonomous Robotic Manipulation project, designed to produce robots that can perform relatively complex...
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you clicked, shared, and spent the most time with. This week we reported on a glass coating developed by MIT that not even ketchup or mayo can resist. And Aisha Mustafa patented a...
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Let Them Tweet Cake
Allison Robicelli makes some of the best cupcakes in New York. Can she and her husband also redefine the mom-and-pop for the Twitter age? “My storefront is your phone,” she says.Allison Robicelli is,...
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6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them
Taking a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference between management and leadership. According to writer and consultant Peter Drucker, "Management is doing...
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Tim Schafer's $3.3 Million Kickstarter Adventure Could Level-Up The Entire...
This behind-the-scenes interview with the brutal legend of video game design proves that listening to your customers can pay off in unexpected ways."We want playing our games to entertain people on...
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James Hong's Pivot From Rating To Dating: The HotOrNot Story
A superficial site about rating hotties went viral and became a paid dating service worth millions. Here's how Hong transformed HotOrNot.Two Heinekens into a lazy afternoon in October 2000, James Hong,...
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Confused About Facebook's IPO Flap? Here's What It Means To You
Speculation's swirling about Facebook's IPO--from what went wrong to who's to blame. Here's our guide to what matters to you. It’s true: We, like many others, were all over the Facebook IPO. Which is...
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A $150M, Richard Meier-Designed Village For Teachers? In Newark?!
Downtown Newark, New Jersey, plans to anchor a massive redevelopment project, complete with apartments, restaurants, and stores, around a group seldom associated with economic development (or...
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Flame: The Skype-Sniffing, Bluetooth-Enabled Super Spy Tool Is A Harbinger
Flame can listen in on Skype conversations, record keystrokes, steal files, and hack a smartphone's call records. Here's how it works--and how Flame evaded detection for years.The news from...
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Groupon Acquires Breadcrumb's Slice Of The Point-Of-Sale Market
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Groupon has just acquired Breadcrumb, a small startup that builds point-of-sale systems for iOS devices, the company announced on its blog today....
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Facebook Rumored To Be Buying Israeli Face Recognition Firm Face.com
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Over the weekend rumors began to swirl that Facebook was looking at spending about $100 million to buy Israeli startup Face.com to access its clever...
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Salesforce To Acquire Facebook Marketing Behemoth Buddy Media
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.All Things D is reporting that Salesforce and Buddy Media are close to a deal that would have the former acquire the latter for $800 million. Buddy...
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Death To The Pixels
Pixels are disappearing at an amazingly fast rate. Extinction could make a lot of money for a lot of people.Mommy and Daddy: What was a pixel?You may want to prepare an answer now because the pixel is...
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Beyond Kickstarter: Rock The Post's Alejandro Cremades On The Future Of...
Crowdfunding isn’t just about funding your friend’s artisanal wrapping paper. For Rock The Post it’s about saving the U.S. economy. By now, everyone knows the Kickstarter model--come up with a...
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Archaeology Student & Media Technologist Jessica Goldfin On Finding The...
What experiences as an archaeologist taught 27-year-old Jessica Goldfin about community-building games, newsroom convergence, and innovation in any occupation. As an undergraduate student of art and...
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Yes, This Exists: A Spoof Of Portlandia Set In Geezerville, Florida
The show, Saratopia, fits into a broader vision of evolving Sarasota from a beautiful beach community for old folks and tourists into a place where young creative types will actually want to stay,...
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Facebook Share Price Slides Again
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Trading in stock options for Facebook began yesterday, but instead of being a positive move for the social network it created a very negative moment...
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