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Your Mobile Phone As A Door Key
NFC capabilities in a smartphone add a whole bunch more capability than simple ol' wireless digital payments. In fact, there's a whole new world of wireless discovery, waiting to be...
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When Olympic Brand Bullying Backfires
If you get between a Brit and his chips, your brand may ultimately suffer. Never get between an Englishman and his chips. McDonald’s is spending a lot of money at the Olympics (around $100 million) for...
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Roku Raises $45 Million From News Corp And Others To Deliver More Content And...
News updates all day from Fast Company.Flush with the $45 million it just raised in a new strategic funding round, Roku says it has big plans to distribute more content, partner with advertiser and...
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The Military Muscle Shaping Yale's Leadership Training
Retired brigadier general Tom Kolditz spent the last 12 years running the leadership program he developed at West Point. His next challenge is to make over the men and women of Yale. So are leaders...
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Fab Rolls Out Mobile Sharing Features, Facebook Connect
News updates all day from Fast Company.Fab's mobile users, who drive 30 to 40% of the shopping site's daily traffic, are twice as likely as web-based users to make a purchase. And shoppers who use the...
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Why MicroStrategy CEO/Philosopher/Futurist Michael Saylor Sees Half The...
Predicting 5 billion smartphones and 5 billion tablets worldwide within a decade, MicroStrategy CEO and tech historian Michael Saylor unveils the levers behind the mobile revolution that's going to...
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Path Adds Personal Voice Messages, Photo Filters, Movie And Book Reviews To...
News updates all day from Fast Company. Personal social network Path has added a few features in version 2.5 of its sharing app. Among those, the photo feature has been updated with filters, and Path...
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The X Factor That Will Determine Marissa Mayer's Success At Yahoo
Yahoo is betting Google’s former innovation guru can turn around its fortunes. While analysts pick apart the tough decisions ahead of her, they are overlooking a critical (if intangible) topic--can she...
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How Aadhaar's Massive ID Project Could Transform The Indian Banking Industry
Before being enrolled in the program, Indians were excluded from banking services, government aid, and many other services that demanded identification. India’s unique identification project, Aadhaar,...
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Developers: Your Code Is Showing, And Future Employers Are Checking It Out
Gild Source, a new tool from recruitment and hiring company Gild, lets prospective bosses grade hackers' credentials by going straight to the source (code).Sheeroy Desai is the CEO of Gild, which gives...
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The RP-VITA By iRobot Will See You Now
The future of health care could involve less personal interaction with human doctors. And that's a good thing.This, anyway, is what the folks at iRobot are hoping. iRobot is a name you're probably...
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Facebook's New Recommendation Bar Tells You Which Articles Your Friends Liked
News updates all day from Fast Company. Facebook already knows which articles your friends are liking and sharing, and they are finally ready to share that information with you--and publishers. Today,...
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Google Fiber Transforms Kansas City Into One Giant Beta Test
The new gigabit Google Fiber Internet and TV service ties together much of what Google's been working on for the past two years and charts a course for its content-creating, cable-cutting future.A...
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Motorola Android Phones Banned In Germany For Violating Microsoft IP
News updates all day from Fast Company.Yet another patent battle has ended badly for one side in Germany: A Mannheim court has just banned Motorola's Android phones because they use file protocols that...
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How SeeMail Takes On Instagram, And Fights The Decline Of Intimacy
How does a photosharing app inspired by old family photographs compete with you know who? By getting personal.Ward Chandler is the founder of SeeMail, a photosharing app slightly less well known than...
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Hate Small Talk? These 5 Questions Will Help You Work Any Room
Do you love going to events, but find yourself stranded during happy hour, tongue-tied and tucked in a corner? Initiating and maintaining conversations while networking is a necessary skill, and one...
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Apple Buys Fingerprint Sensor Maker AuthenTec, Which Perfected Tech In...
News updates all day from Fast Company. Apple plans to acquire biometric hardware maker AuthenTec for $356 million, Reuters reports.Dale Setlack, co-founder and then-CTO of AuthenTec was on our Fast 50...
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The 6 Personalities Every Startup Needs To Thrive
No office is a monoculture. Here's how to bring together the personalities that will make your business thrive. Assembling your team is like putting together a puzzle. To succeed, you need to find the...
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This Rochester Fashion Co. Dresses Mitt Romney, Bob Costas, And Could’ve...
When New York Senator Chuck Schumer suggested Team America remake its uniforms on American soil, he had a specific company in mind: Hickey Freeman, a Rochester, New York, manufacturer that has spent...
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"Let’s Map Who Owes The Local Warlord Money": Meet An Urban Planner For...
After 25 years in the military, Dr. David Kilcullen needed a change. So he started Caerus Associates, which is "two-thirds tech, one-third social science, with a dash of special operations." Now he's...
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