Make Your Public Speaking Pass The "Waiting In Line" Test
On the heels of last week's post regarding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's average speaking skills, I realized there is a specific goal I'm always striving for and that I drive my presentation-skills...
View ArticleUnused Electric Cars As A Giant Battery: Vehicle-To-Grid Charging Is Coming Soon
Most cars--even electric ones-- sit unused most of the day. What if the power in their batteries could be fed back into the grid so that power companies didn't have to make more power. It's coming, and...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011
FEATURE The United States Of Design From GM to 3M, design matters more than ever. Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential. READ MORE MORE LINKS Fast Company Magazine...
View ArticleVideo: How Steve Jobs's Early Vision For Apple Inspired A Decade Of Innovation
Eds. Note: Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has passed away at the age of 56, leaving behind a larger-than-life legacy which no obituary could possibly capture. As colleagues and family members and...
View ArticleThe First Time I Met Steve Jobs...
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has passed away at the age of 56, leaving behind a larger-than-life legacy which no obituary could possibly capture. Eds. Note: Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Mashup in Tweets
Wading through the river of tweets in the wake of Apple founder Steve Jobs' death.Steve Jobs' death [became] the trending topic of all trending topics (@deliacabe). He was the most innovative...
View ArticleHoneydrop Beverages Fights Bee Colony Collapse Disorder With Tea, Juice
When honey is your main ingredient, the prospect of bees dying is quite real and dire. Hence Honeydrop's plan to donate profits to bees, to keep its supplies flowing.Honeybees are more important than...
View ArticleTune Out Spotify Ads: Rdio Launches Free, On-Demand Music Streaming
Digital music service Rdio today introduced free, on-demand streaming music--"free" being the key point here. No registration. No credit cards. No downloads. And best of all, no ads. The San...
View ArticleSolar Entrepreneur Lynn Jurich: Sunny Days Ahead
What's the future of solar energy? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Lynn Jurich, cofounder of SunRun, which is flourishing in a season that has seen a few high-profile bankruptcies in solar...
View ArticleYouTube Launches Politics Channel, Disney To Acquire Indiagames, Brian Lam On...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Jobs Biography Pre-orders Up 41,800% On Amazon.com. Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs has seen a surge in pre-orders since...
View ArticleVisualizing The Carbon In Our Built Environment
Architecture 2030's plan is for all buildings to proudly announce how many emissions it required to build them, to operate them, and to eventually tear them down. Architecture 2030, a non-profit...
View ArticleGM Teams Up With RelayRides To Make Peer-To-Peer Carsharing Easier
Want to rent out your car when you're not using it? It just got a lot easier for GM car owners. The concept of carsharing--renting out vehicles by the hour--is now familiar in major cities thanks to...
View ArticleAmerica's Supply Problem Is Keeping People Out Of Work
The U.S. doesn't have a jobs problem; it has excess capacity for producing goods and services compared to global demand, says Martin Wolf. How to fix it? Lower taxes would mean more M&A, which...
View ArticleStop Getting Excited About Biofuels: They're Not Close To Ready
The next time you hear a story touting a new miracle biofuel ingredient, know that a new report just found that the nature-based oil won't be making an impact for decades. Every day, it seems, we hear...
View ArticleMozilla CEO Gary Kovacs On The Fate Of Firefox In A Mobile Era
Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting...
View ArticleMexican Narcogangs' War On Digital Media
In Mexico, blogging or leaving a comment online about narcogangs can get an Internet user--even an anonymous one--beheaded, tortured, and mutilated. Here's a look at the new digital front in the...
View ArticleThe Innovation Learning Network Wants To Cure What Ails The Health Industry
"It's for anyone in health care who is thinking about innovation," says ILN director Chris McCarthy. "Our mission is to connect with innovators to understand design thinking." As anyone who has tried...
View ArticleNew Technology To Save--Not Just Catch--Marine Life
After decades of more and more powerful fish-catching innovation, scientists are now developing ways for fisherman to catch just the amount, and type, of fish they need.Technological advancement on the...
View ArticleIf Steve Jobs Had Applied His Talents To Energy And Climate Change
Steve Jobs created innovative products that change the world of technology. Imagine the other industries he could have disrupted.The anecdotes and stories of Steve Jobs’ career continue to pour in,...
View ArticleBluetooth 4.0: Innovations Take Tech Far Beyond Hands-Free Douchery
Bluetooth 4.0 is helping distinguish the iPhone 4S from existing peer devices because it's the first smartphone to have it.Bluetooth. Say the word and your mind is off and reeling. Few brands can rival...
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