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The Best Brand Content, Fashion Edition

Instead of a traditional business plan, Holstee cofounders and brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar, along with friend Fabian, created a manifesto, a typographical “reminder of what a successful life could...

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This Week In Bots: Telepresence Is Coming Home

Bot Vid: Robot RayUniversity of Virginia scientists have made a robotic clone of a cow-nosed ray, using biomimicry techniques to copy the ray's firm body, flexible silicone wings that have rod and...

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Blimey, An Olympic Turnaround! The Leadership Principles Behind Britain's...

British soccer--or football, whatever you call it--hasn't won Olympic gold in a century. To turn the team around, head coach Stuart Pearce has stuck to four guiding leadership principles that any...

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The Thread: Work-Family Policy

What kinds of policy changes would make your work-family life more manageable?Last weekend former governor of Massachusetts Jane Swift wrote a thought-provoking essay for Fast Company about motherhood,...

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10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week

Here are the most read stories this week from Fast Company, Co.Create, Co.Design, Co.Lead and Co.Exist.Someone somewhere once wrote that celebrities, they're just like us. Artist Danny Evans took the...

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Map Wars: Nook Gets Maps, Navigation, Location-Based Services, As Barnes &...

While Google and Apple fight for map dominance, Barnes & Noble has quietly launched OpenStreetMap-based maps and navigation for the Nook--and laid the ground for a host of location-based apps.The...

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After South Korea Telecom Hack, 8.7 Million Customers' Details Sold To...

News updates all day from Fast Company.South Korea's KT Telecom has suffered a protracted months-long hack attack that has seen hackers gain access to 8.7 million of its customers--about half its...

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Olympics Attendees Asked To Cool It With The Tweets

News updates all day from Fast Company. Social media, and Twitter in particular, is playing a big role in Olympics activity and coverage this year. Twitter had its designated page set up for curated...

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The Job Interview From Hell

When an interview with a prospective hire ends, “Good luck with your shitty app,” you know there was a wrong turn somewhere. Yesware CEO Matthew Bellows deconstructs a disaster.Matthew Bellows is the...

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The Business Turnaround Tactics Of Restaurant: Impossible's Robert Irvine

From coast to coast, there are plenty of amazing restaurants for America's foodies to salivate over; a more amusing pastime, however, may be marveling at the truly bad ones on The Food Network's...

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Why No One Will Watch Your Crappy Corporate "Viral" Video, And How To Fix It

Those "Will It Blend?" videos of some guy throwing an iPhone in a blender and the instantly viral Shakeweight ads have millions and millions of views. Your company's new "viral" spot has 500. Here's...

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"Like Sonny And Cher--With More Google Analytics"

What's it like to cofound a startup with your significant other? To find out, we talk to the creators of UnsubscribeDeals, a repellent for all that unwanted daily deal email in your inbox.Edwin...

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Big Data On Campus Is Like A Keg Stand For Your Brain

Take a crash course in digital humanities with McGill professor Stefan Sinclair. In the burgeoning academic discipline of digital humanities, creating software tools is as important as getting...

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Vacation, Unplugged

A vacation with one thumb on the iPhone at all times is no vacation at all--and it can actually hurt your business. Here are practical steps to take to totally unplug and get the most of your time off....

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Why Customer Pain Is Your Most Important Resource

If your product is gonna stick, it needs to address your customers' pain points--whether they can articulate them or not. Thankfully, some very smart people have thought about this. How does an...

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Boomerang Brings Your Friends To Social Gifting Game With A Million Dollars...

We're a little coupon-ed out. But freebies from friends? That could work. Boomerang gives your friends benefits. The new social gifting service lets your send vouchers, not just coupons or mere Happy...

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On The Value Of Vacation Time

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Outlook Is Microsoft's Answer To Everything You've Ever Hated About Hotmail

After 15 years, Microsoft's follow-up to the cluttered Hotmail is stripped down, styled after Windows 8, and easy to use. Wait, Hotmail?Namedropping "Microsoft Hotmail" is enough to evoke shudders from...

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Google Acquires Social Ad Manager Wildfire

News updates all day from Fast Company.Companies may now manage their advertising campaigns on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter using a service owned by Google.The search giant announced it had agreed...

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