Yahoo's IntoNow Provides Signs Of Life For The "Premier Digital Media Company"
Yahoo is known for acquiring startups and letting them languish. But IntoNow cranked out a whole new product--and a possible game-changer for the TV industry--in six months. Is this the beginning of...
View ArticleiPhone App Tracks Guerillas, Facebook Project Hacked, China Tops Booming...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.New iPhone App Tracks African War Atrocities. The NGO Resolve, which Fast Company has written about before, has released an iPhone...
View ArticleImagine A World Where The Cable Guy Shows Up On Time
A growing group of customer experience professionals are working hard to make some of life's most frustrating experiences not just tolerable, but delightful.There aren’t many people who look forward to...
View Article5 Ways To Build Engagement Using Positive Feedback On Your Company's Website
Last Wednesday morning my 12-year-old son and I accidentally climbed a nearby mountain called Sunset Peak. Elan and I meant only to walk up a little way, scouting the thing out for a possible climb on...
View ArticleGroupon IPO: Stay Calm
It's going to be a wild ride on Friday when Groupon launches into the public markets. Here are three things to keep in mind as you watch the price race up and down.Groupon is finally going public on...
View ArticleGiving Kick-Ass Presentations In The Age Of Social Media
Seven (somewhat snarky) new rules for public speaking in the social media era.It was painful to watch. Jon Bond, the former ad giant turned social media honcho, was actually getting heckled at the...
View ArticleHow Businesses Are Cashing In On Mobile Payments [VIDEO]
Since the inception of currency, the sale or purchase of goods has been a tangible activity. With the advent of mobile location technology, we are on the verge of changing that paradigm."I expect my...
View ArticleGo "Home" With A Fast Company T-Shirt
Show off your Fast Company colors in Sony's redesign of their PlayStation Home virtual world. As revealed a few days ago, Sony has finally launched the new version of PlayStation Home. As you explore...
View ArticleThe Financial Institutions Banking On Occupy Wall Street's "Move Your Money Day"
Demonstrators plan to withdraw money from big banks on Saturday. A handful of credit unions and other progressive institutions see it as an opportunity. But are they really any better than the...
View ArticleA Long, Strange "Trip to the Moon"
It took science, faith, and a bit of magic (oh, and 10 years and a million bucks) to bring a lost version of a pioneering silent film classic back to colorful life. Here’s how it happened.When Serge...
View ArticleZac Brown's "Eat & Greet" Tour Serves Fans Grits Before Hits
With the help of a kitchen on wheels named Cookie, one of country music's biggest stars and his chef friend Rusty Hamlin are on the promotional tour of a lifetime. Dinner is served--jams come later....
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: Don't Take This The Wrong Way, But You're A Terminator,...
PETMAN ComethCome on, Boston Dynamic! Who are you trying to kid? You tell us PETMAN is the latest evolution of your human-form android that uses similar tech to your military BigDog, and that he's a...
View ArticleRIM's Vision Of The Future Might Rely On Someone Else's Goggles
[youtube Wr9mtir5648]RIM has a PR problem: A couple of videos, filmed and rendered in the emerging-as-classic "what the future will be like"-style overlayed with electro-orchestral music, have leaked...
View ArticleHajj To Air On YouTube, Groupon Raises $700 Million IPO, CIA Team Analyzes...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.The Hajj To Be Livestreamed on YouTube. Google will be livestreaming the Hajj, the world's largest religious pilgrimage, in...
View ArticleHow Jonah Hill Became An Action Hero In Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 [video]
Activision and 72andSunny create a live action extravaganza with two A-List stars in an attempt to beat last year's record-breaking sales of Black Ops.Making a commercial for a monster game franchise...
View ArticleAndy Rooney: Voice Of The Internet
The late Andy Rooney was a vicious critic who despised sloppy grammar and loathed Justin Bieber. Sound familiar, Internet? Let's give the curmudgeonly commentator his due as the OG Hater of the...
View ArticleDisney And YouTube Partner Up, MGM And Netflix Strike Deal For U.K., Ireland,...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Google's Doodle celebrates Marie Curie's birthday. Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw.Disney And YouTube To Make Original Video...
View ArticleZynx's Pat Button Empowers Nurses To Provide More-Informed Patient Care
Pat Button, a former registered nurse and bed-and-breakfast proprietress, took a non-traditional route to transforming health care as chief nursing officer of Zynx Health.After climbing the corporate...
View ArticleHow VPNs Keep Occupy Wall Street Networks Up And Protesting
An organization called the Free Network Foundation has equipped Occupy Wall Street and two other Occupy protests with secure communications towers. Now the organization is leading a fundraising drive...
View ArticleStarred: The Email That Launched Airbnb
Welcome to another edition of Starred, where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, and VCs. Think that first message Jack Dorsey ever sent to Biz Stone describing...
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