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Why You Should (And Shouldn't) Throw Your Employees Into Swimming Pools
ClearGears, a performance-review startup, has chlorinated beginnings...It began, as so many great ideas for startups must, with being thrown in a swimming pool.Arshad Chowdhury, the founder of...
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Nokia's Biggest Competition: Android In The Developing World
Nokia is in trouble, and it's well known: While the firm is still making money, its future plans were cast into deep shadow by the rapidly evolving smartphone scene, led by the iPhone and its OS, which...
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Big Pharma Giving Away Drug Patents To Help Cure Tropical Disease
By offering up their drugs for free to developing countries, drug companies hope to make inroads into new markets, and prevent a few diseases along the way. Intellectual property is crucial for...
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Hybrid Air Vehicles Make Gains On Traditional Airplanes
Seventy-four years after the zeppelin, another gas giant arises.Hybrid Air Vehicles' new aircraft is not technically a blimp. Nor is it a zeppelin, a craft that saw its end with the Hindenburg...
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Dropbox Cracks The Enterprise With The Help Of Addicted Users
Drew Houston is one of the few people out there who was able to turn down an offer from Steve Jobs. He had good reasons. His startup, cloud-syncing and -sharing service Dropbox, has shot to more than...
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Nisan Gabbay Helps Retailers Turn Social Chatter Into Sales
Making "social" work for online retailers doesn't have to mean handing over the keys to Facebook. But it does mean letting go of some control, says Social Labs founder Nisan Gabbay. "Let’s move away...
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Painting Your Roof White Doesn't Work
That's just one of the myths debunked in a new paper on the climate.Painting roofs white has been--like changing lightbulbs--one of the well-cited easy ways out of climate change. By reflecting more...
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What Happens To The Ocean If We Use It For Energy?
Wave power is virtually unlimited. But like all disruptions to nature, it will probably have some ill effects. Now IBM and friends are trying to figure them out in a controlled setting, before it's too...
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Infographic: America's Energy Prices Vs. The World
Think your electricity bill is high? It's not. Neither is your heating bill or the price you pay at the pump. In the grand scheme of things, in fact, you're getting a great deal.Gas costs too much. So...
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As Gas Use Declines, Americans Still Spend More On Gas
A new report outlines the insidious "energy trap," a spiral of gas costs that poor people--forced to live far from their jobs and unable to invest in clean cars--fall into. Here's how to break it. If...
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If You Can't Afford Panels, Try Pay-As-You-Go Solar
Simpa Networks offers a simple solution to the expenses of solar installation: pay in installments, just like people do with cell phones. The great paradox of poverty is that costs more to get the...
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Nerd York City: Why Bloomberg Wants A NYC Tech Campus
Bids are due Friday for a proposed, new applied science university campus in NYC. Mayor Bloomberg says City Hall will donate land and more than $100 million in infrastructure for the project... but...
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Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your Company
Some digital companies are hiring--and in fact are in hot competition for certain types of employees. But you don't have to be Google to attract top-tier talent. Why doesn't digital talent want to work...
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HP Pivots Again: Meg Whitman To Keep PC Division, Taiwanese Animators Launch...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. HP Holds On To PCs. So much for that drastic pivot. In August, then-CEO Leo Apotheker announced that HP would potentially be...
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Chevrolet Turns 100
Thursday, November 3 Last year, the Detroit-based automaker adopted the tagline "Chevrolet runs deep." Boy, are they right. Over the past century, the all-American automobile manufacturer has zoomed...
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Colombia Holds World Summit For Youth Volunteering
Thursday, November 3One-fifth of young Americans donate time to a cause. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Zuma PressAt any given moment, young volunteers across the globe are building schools and feeding...
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Greenhorn Connect Helps Startups Get On Their Feet, If They're Good Enough
How one young Bostonian became a networking king.Photo by David Yellen A pair of twentysomethings in Boston had a startup idea, so they did what just about everyone in their shoes does: They asked...
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One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier's Quest For Something Concrete
Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands--and little patience for general assembly dickering--to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large--but not unified--contingent of...
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Fabian Stelzer Uses Neuroscience To Make Your Website Stickier
5 seconds. That's about how long I have to capture your attention on this website and convince you to stick around. Fabian Stelzer used his training in neuroscience to improve the odds by helping...
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Your Next Credit Card Is Your Last
You may remember when credit card machines weren't so reliable, so stores sometimes used that little aluminum contraption with a roller over your card, and you had to sign the printed copy hard enough...
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