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Mark Zuckerberg And Sheryl Sandberg Respond To The Great Tech War Of 2012
"Our goal is not to build a platform," Zuckerberg says, "It's to be across all of them." And he alludes to Google+, dismissing it as a "little version of Facebook." Shots fired!If you missed the chin...
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Injecting Some Serious Swagger Into Your Brand Personality
I’ve noticed more and more that companies in most industries are nearly indistinguishable. I honestly can’t tell you the last place I filled up my car with gas, the last brand of cheese I purchased, or...
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Hey, HBO Digital SVP, Why No Netflix-Like Streaming Subscriptions For HBO Go?
"It's not TV," as they famous slogan says. "It's HBO." Yet you can't access HBO without TV. Last year, the popular cable network launched HBO Go, a streaming service that gives millions of subscribers...
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Facebook For The Famous
Backed by heavyweights in three disparate industries--Amazon, CAA, and Greylock Partners--WhoSay.com lets celebrities do something Twitter and Facebook don't: own their online content. Tom Hanks,...
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Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo Band Together For Ads, Facebook's Biggest User Will...
Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo Band Together For Ads. The advertising partnership will allow the companies to sell each others' unsold display ads, Reuters reports. Preempting censure from the Department of...
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Modern Alarm Clocks That Aren't Your Smartphone
Photo by Dan Saelinger As smartphones take over the world, alarm clocks are fading into the well-rested past. We now wake up to ringtones rather than the clatter of a metal hammer; we search for the...
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What Every Company Should Take From Barnes & Noble: A Page From Their...
Time and time again we've seen the same story play out: an established industry player ignores digital and ends up in a fight for survival against a brash startup, empowered by a little user focus and...
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The Power Potential Of Google+ Pages For Businesses
When Google+ launched for users, the world cheered at the idea of another social network actually standing a chance against Facebook. Whether it was just rooting for the underdog or an actual feeling...
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Sprout Social Turbo-Boosts Its Dashboard For Enterprise Social Media
Social networking for businesses is important enough that Google has just launched Pages, its enterprise-facing version of Google+. In some ways Google has also complicated the mission for companies...
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Why One Teen Dropped Out And Made Paris His Higher Education
A traditional college education--and the thousands of dollars in student debt--may not be for everyone. Thiel Fellow and education disruptor Dale Stephens takes a look at one teen who decided to forgo...
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Leadership Hall of Fame: David Allen, Author of "Getting Things Done"
Has productivity changed as technology has evolved, from the utility of iPhones to the connectedness of Facebook? We continue our examination of the business book Getting Things Done with an interview...
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How Google+ And Other "Little Versions Of Facebook" Solve Social Media's...
Google+ guru Bradley Horowitz, Path's Dave Morin, and GroupMe's Jared Hecht talk to Fast Company about "the biggest problem in social networking"--grouping the right friends in the right ways. Mark...
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Building A Better Chat Room
If the new startup Tokkster is right, being able to chat with other customers on company home pages will be the next big thing.A new web startup is betting that live chat services will be the easiest...
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Think Mobile, Act Global [Video]
There are now over 7 billion people in the world. And more than 5 billion of them are mobile subscribers. When you think about social, local, mobile services, you'd better be thinking global...
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Live Music Needs A Tuneup To Entice The Audiences Of Tomorrow
Everybody has a concert story. Whether it’s lifting Wayne Coyne aloft in his human-sized gerbil ball at a Flaming Lips show, camping out all night for Springsteen tickets, or being hypnotized by...
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For Brands On Facebook, Fan Quality Trumps Quantity
Whenever someone asks me to be their friend on Facebook, I’m flattered. Who would have thought so many people like me? Then I realize why: the act of friending simulates the ultimate act of opting into...
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Social Media Studies: Race, Gender, Class, And Teens' Online Behavior
Cyberbullying and online drama are old news. But a new Pew study shows wide disparities across income and race lines in terms of who's doing the bullying--and why teenage girls really love...
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First Street Gives Washington Insiders Their Own Social Network
What happens when a Washington phone book goes digital?CQ Press president John Jenkins sat down in a client's office, in 2006, and was surprised to find years-old stacks of his company's congressional...
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Amazon Buys Siri-like Yap, Alaska Airlines Starts Burning Biofuel, Walmart...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.WoW Loses 1 Million Subscribers. In the last three months, World of Warcraft has lost a million people. WoW had its record number...
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Phil Pinnell Is Putting Food From Scratch Onto Your Busy Table
"There's nothing better than receiving an email or phone call from someone saying their evening was better because of our meals," says the 26-year-old cofounder of Scratch. It's hard to eat well when...
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