Apple Rumor Patrol: The Next iPhone Is Nearly Here--Will It Be NFC-Ready?
As Apple's WWDC event fades from memory, more and more rumors are popping up about the next iPhone, a full three months before we can reasonably expect it to arrive. Here's why everyone's so...
View ArticleGojee's Mike Lavalle On The Key Insight That Turned The Site Into Foodie...
Despite its name Mint.com has nothing to do with food, but the site's charts-and-graphs approach to finance did inspire recipe recommendation engine Gojee. But not before it went through a couple of...
View ArticleFacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Becomes First Woman To Sit On Board Of Directors
News updates all day from Fast CompanyFacebook has just appointed chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as the eighth member and first woman to sit on its Board of Directors, the company announced...
View ArticleGoogle Teams With Lego In Creative Chrome Promotion
News updates all day from Fast Company.Google has teamed with Lego Australia in an unusual promotion for its Chrome product. It's called Build, and it's an experiment in collaborative creativity:...
View ArticleIn Marvel And DC's Battle Of The Superheroes, Can The Hulk Kick Batman's Butt?
Read on for answers to that and other billion-dollar mind-blowing questions about the war between Disney’s Marvel and Time Warner’s DC.Photo by David Levinthal The half-century battle between Marvel...
View ArticleMedia6Degrees Knows What You Want To Buy Even Before You Do
How a data-driven ad marketing firm run by math geeks blew off social networks and rediscovered the web. The data-wonk founders of Media6Degrees (M6D) founded the company in 2008 on a simple premise:...
View ArticleThink You Can't Take A Vacation? The Sound Business Reasons You Really Should
We know--you're totally, utterly indispensable to your business. Right? Think again: Here are 10 reasons work is better off without you for a while. Now skeedaddle.Now that it's summer, it's a good...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway On Extraordinary Women And Using Celebrity To Give A Voice To...
The actress talks with Fast Company about how she turned her passion for helping children into meaningful field work with the Nike Foundation.Anne (“please, call me Annie") Hathaway may be best known...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway On Extraordinary Women And Using Celebrity To Give A Voice To...
The actress talks with Fast Company about how she turned her passion for helping children into meaningful field work with the Nike Foundation.Anne (“please, call me Annie") Hathaway may be best known...
View ArticleYour First 5 Hires Can Make Or Break Your Company--Here's How To Choose...
For any company--whether you're manufacturing athletic shoes, selling medical devices or developing cloud-based software--talent is the most important piece to the long-sought-after puzzle to long-term...
View ArticleWhy Nest Founders Tony Fadell And Matt Rogers Left Apple To Build A Thermostat
This is what happens when two guys who helped develop iPods and iPhones decide to make a thermostat. In the 35 years since a cardigan-clad Jimmy Carter called on America to turn down the thermostat,...
View ArticlePango's New Service Combines Mobile Parking Payments And Location-Based Ads
Mobile parking startup Pango lets users pay for on-street and garage parking by smartphone app or SMS text messages. They're also pitching retailers near parking garages on their location-based...
View ArticleOnline Town Hall Lets Residents Improve Their Own Neighborhood Without...
MindMixer is a virtual meetup where citizens and officials connect, share plans, and turn the most popular ideas into shovel-ready projects, from new crosswalks to $1 million roadways. UNITED STATES OF...
View ArticleThere's More To Google's Artificial Brain Than Finding Cats On The Internet
Google's got a brain. An actual electronic brain.The New York Times has news that inside Google's high-tech R&D "X" laboratory the search giant has been creating a simulation of the human brain....
View ArticleInside Zynga Network And Its New "Big Learning Machine"
The new Zynga partner program puts the company's know-how to work for outside game developers--but it'll also help Zynga get smarter faster.Zynga has taken a lot of beatings recently--a stock price...
View ArticleWith Yahoo Deal, Spotify Eyes 700M Potential Users
News updates all day from Fast Company.Spotify and Yahoo just announced a global distribution deal that will put Spotify in front of 700 million users--a hefty leg up from its current 10 million...
View ArticleVeriFone Takes Sail, Its Mobile Payment Device, To Android
News updates all day from Fast Company.VeriFone recently revealed its play for the next gen of mobile payments, to compete with the likes of Square--it's an iPhone-compatible Sail dongle, which comes...
View ArticleThe One Thing Google Must Innovate With Its Tablet: Price
Google's tablet may be stuck between a sizzling iPad and a Kindle Fire.Though nothing is yet certain, it's looking more and more likely that Google will reveal its own Nexus-branded Android tablet...
View ArticleFrom Hotel Uniforms To Life-Saving Water Filters: Evolving The Humanitarian...
In recent years, investments in global public health have created opportunities for private innovators, technology developers, and business investors to join the fight against infectious diseases...
View ArticleHow Walmart--Yes, Walmart--Created A Cottage Industry Of Small-Town Retail...
Northern Arkansas isn't just the home of the world's largest retailer. It's the home of an array of cutting-edge retail and tech companies that got their start in part because Walmart is here. UNITED...
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