The Second City Way Of Better Brainstorming
Have you ever briefed your group on a topic and given the greenlight for freeform discussion, only to be met by blank stares and middle-of-the-road ideas? Second City Communications is here to help,...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Brings The Magical Synchronous Web To Your Apple Screen
Chrome just arrived for iPhone and iPad, and it's deeply connected to your web life. But there's a few key reasons you might hold off on Chrome on iOS.Google's Chrome browser is fast, synchronous, and...
View Article10 Minutes Of Tough-Love Leadership Lessons From Bravo TV's Tabatha Coffey
Tabatha Coffey's regularly kicking management butt and transforming businesses on Bravo TV's reality show "Tabatha Takes Over." Here's what she had to say about the biggest problem business owners...
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: The Naked And The Droid
Bot Vid: The Roshambo CheatRock-paper-scissors--or roshambo, if you prefer--may be a game humans find hard to cheat at, but a robot from the Ishikawa Oku lab at the University of Tokyo (shown on the...
View ArticleTo Take The Work Out Of Networking, Reframe Your End Goal
Traditionally, we have seen the entrepreneur as a lone wolf who creates a big, powerful enterprise on his own. The reality is quite the opposite. Successful entrepreneurs cultivate a network of...
View ArticleHow Tracking Energy Usage (And Competing Against Neighbors) Can Save Texans...
Everything's bigger in Texas, including your electricity bill. TXU, a private energy provider, developed $100 million technology that gives customers a range of ways to visualize, adjust, and reduce...
View ArticleTwitter Gets Stricter, Parts Ways With LinkedIn
News updates all day from Fast Company.As of today, you will no longer be able to sync your tweets to your LinkedIn profile. In a blog post, LinkedIn explained that it will turn off its tweet stream,...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network. This week we give you a peek into some of the top creative minds...
View ArticleCory Booker Creates Social Video Site To Give Milennials A Voice
The tech-savvy mayor teams up with Silicon Valley vets to create a site that delivers news and information the way 20-somethings are used to consuming it.Newark's social-media-savvy mayor is diving...
View ArticlePinterest-Like Web Store Wisemarkit Pays Members For Sales
We've seen the numbers: Pinterest is turning out to be a real driver of purchases on the Internet, and Pinterest users spend more cash on average than members of other social networks. So why doesn't...
View ArticleUber Plans Expansion With Cheaper Hybrid Vehicles
News updates all day from Fast Company.Uber, still technically a startup despite its fast-growing international standing, has revealed that from this Wednesday it'll be launching a cheaper taxi car...
View Article"A World Where There Are No Keyboards": Dashlane, The Mobile Future, And...
Meet Emmanuel Schalit. With his security service, all you have to do is remember one password, and Dashlane will do the rest. "We are about convenience and security," he says.Emmanuel Schalit is the...
View ArticleHow To Convince Gen Y To Believe In Your Cause And Your Company
Gen Y notoriously rallies for movements and startups they love. Here's how to get on their radar and stay there for good, from Fuck Cancer founder Yael Cohen, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative...
View ArticleHow "Toggle" Worked Its Way Through AT&T's Innovation Pipeline And Into Cell...
AT&T's innovation-generating system brings smart products to market, and shares the spoils with the employees who created them.Doug Ring was stuck in a familiar bind between boss and cell phone...
View ArticleThe Chicago Startup That Changed How Orbitz, Gap, And Obama Collect Your Data
Online data tracking is a messy, broken world that contributes to slower page loads, overtaxes IT teams, and leaves everyone from global corporations to the U.S. President's campaign without complete...
View ArticleThank Your Smartphone For The Extra 365 Work Hours You Log Per Year
News updates all day from Fast Company.We already know Americans work a lot. Now, a new Good Technology study puts a precise number on all those phone calls and emails you log after hours: 365. That's...
View ArticleMozilla's Firefox-Branded Smartphone Is On The Way
News updates all day from Fast Company.Mozilla is developing a Firefox-powered smartphone that will be ready by 2013. The big news here is the smartphone's Firefox OS, which is being built with HTML5,...
View ArticleInside LinkedIn's Targeted Status Updates
LinkedIn's homepage lost its Twitter tie-up, but it gained targeted status updates aimed at specific occupations, company roles, and geographic locations. Fair trade? Social networking sites...
View ArticleMonet And The Art Of Intent
For Claude Monet, a fascination with visual perception prompted a lifelong ambition to “paint the air”: to study and represent how light breaks up on objects and how it scatters on water. Monet...
View ArticleInternational Buying Machines? Nah, But IBM Is Developing An Augmented...
For 101 years, IBM has been known primarily as a giant corporate entity that makes mainframe computers and all sorts of enterprise-centric tech. Slowly and slightly, that identity is shifting. This...
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