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The Trouble With Harry: Pottermore, Nokia, And How Not To Launch A High-Tech...
Two curious and awkward press events this week put a spotlight on the act of unveiling. Yesterday, after a short period of global intrigue, J.K. Rowling revealed what exactly Pottermore.com will be: an...
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This Vending Machine Will Give You (Live) Crabs
Instead of the usual chips, soda, and other processed food, Chinese gourmands can now have a live crab dispensed to them at the mall or airport.A Chinese entrepreneur has developed a unique kind of...
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What The S.F. Underground Market's Shutdown Means For Food Entrepreneurs
The market was created to avoid the red tape that keeps many small-time food operations from getting off the ground. The founder of the market explains how it will move on after the red tape got...
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With AmEx Partnership, Foursquare May Prove Social Media's Real ROI
Today Foursquare announced a nationwide partnership with American Express to offer discounts to cardholders when they check in at select merchants. Now, after linking your AmEx card to your Foursquare...
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This Week In Bots: Robot Moon Landers, Fake Pop Stars, Bot Mites, And More
Robots are quietly invading daily lives all around the world. You never know when next you'll meet a bot--just check out this week's robotics developments for proof.NASA's robotic moon landerNASA's...
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Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The Arab Spring"
Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who.One of Facebook's...
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Beyond TROMSÖ: How Ikea And Filip Nilsson Dominate Advertising
This may surprise many U.S. consumers unfamiliar with Ikea spots, but the legendary Swedish furniture company is this year's Advertiser of the Year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of...
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Apple Goes To China
This week Apple's COO and acting CEO Tim Cook was apparently spotted sauntering into the Beijing offices of China Mobile, the world's largest cellphone network, with 611 million subscribers (that's...
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Cheeky Little Underage Hackers Are Getting Their Very Own DEF CON Event
Hacker conference DEF CON is, in information-security circles, a big deal--which is why it's pretty astonishing that in August it will launch its first event targeted at the younger hacker. You know,...
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Foursquare's $600M Valuation, Give The Onion A Pulitzer Or Glenn Beck Might...
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of people and companies making moves in your space. Updated all day by FastCompany.com's editors.Foursquare's $600 Million Valuation. Popular check-in...
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The Rise Of Shared Ownership And The Fall Of Business As Usual
A new model in Cleveland--in which workers own companies that are supported by the city's big businesses--has the potential to change the economics of the city and its workers.There are two things in...
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As Wi-Fi Havens And E-Book Centers, Public Libraries Aren't Going Away Soon
A new survey by the American Library Association shows that 99.3% of public libraries offer free access to the web even if you don't have a PC and 67% offer e-books. Summer just got a whole lot cooler....
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HP: TouchPad's WebOS Threatens Android, Apple iOS
Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad. As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest...
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Your Business Card Is A Billboard For Your Brand--What Does Yours Say?
If a brand can describe its core values and philosophy on its business card without a detailed description, the brand becomes a full representation of its vision. I heard a story that a few years ago...
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Shake It Up
Pepper your table with these dispensers.AT FIRST GLANCE, salt-and-pepper shakers seem as bland as the food they season. The ubiquitous tools may be utilitarian, but that doesn't mean they lack...
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Recyclebank Crowdsources Its Business Plan To An Elite Group Of Social...
At an annual gathering of budding socially conscious businesspeople the money-for-good-deeds company held a competition to find the best path toward massive growth.For a company that wants to quickly...
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Does Social Media Have A Return On Investment?
Do "likes" and retweets add up to sales? Who knows? And who really cares? We're in the I Love Lucy era of social-media marketing, a golden age of unaccountability. #article-top-wrapper img {...
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LivingSocial Invades The Middle East
LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East...
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The Second Coming Of Vatican Social Media
The Vatican has announced the launch of a cutting-edge website designed for browsing via social media. But how will Papal homilies play on Twitter?The faithful will now be able to keep up with the...
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GSV Boosts Facebook To $70B, HBO Go Hits 3M, iPhone 5 Due In Three Months...
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of people and companies making moves in your space. Updated all day by FastCompany.com's editors.Supremely Pwned. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the...
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