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The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid
How do developing countries provide a new market for companies? Is it really possible to do very well by doing good? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business...
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How Do You Make Your Business Ideas Concrete? Look to Hamburger Helper
What can a Kleiner Perkins VC pitch, and Hamburger Helper from General Mills, tell you about how to make your ideas tangible and real? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look...
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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman On Groupon's Big Advantage: Big Data
Fast Company is traveling with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman (above, center) as part of "Silicon Valley Comes to the UK" (SVC2UK) this week. In part two of our interview with him (part one is here),...
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Cracking Down On $70 Billion Worth Of Medicare Fraud
A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for $776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions....
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How Silence Changes The Communication Dynamic
Ever wonder what it would be like to remain quiet for an entire week? Not just less talking. I mean no talking. Total silence. It’s a bit scary, no? Well, I just completed such a week. I recently had...
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This Week In Bots: Some Pop, Some Lock, Some Move Robotic
Robot SnakeTintanoboa was a real snake, a prehistoric serpent of biblical proportions--it was over 50 feet long and some of them could weigh over a ton. Thankfully he's long extinct, but to demonstrate...
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3 Proven Strategies To Keep The Internet From Killing Your Productivity
There’s a good chance you’re reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on at work right now. Whatever you were working on, which you...
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Coca-Cola, Nexus Interactive Arts Unveil Digital Waterfall In Ecuador
The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on...
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Skype's Special Delivery For Active Duty Dads
With the American military presence in Afghanistan continuing indefinitely, more and more troops have been missing the birth of their children back home. So the Defense Department is quietly setting up...
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday, November 24More than 3 million spectators will line city streets for the parade. | Illustration By Jing Wei Balloons may be just a bunch of hot air, but it takes more than that to keep them...
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Unpredictable Rewards: Twitter's "Activity" Stream And Our Dwindling...
Do Twitter's Activity and Facebook's Ticker give you anything you really need to know? Not really. But maybe that's not so bad.Twitter used to ask its users, simply: “What are you doing right now?”...
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How One "Walking Dead" Actor's Racist Maniac Makes For Must-See TV
Michael Rooker only needed a handful of scenes to turn Merle Dixon into a fanboy favorite. But it was his real-world commitment to bringing the character to life that gave the AMC series its...
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New Media Meets Zines In "The World's First Perfect" Irony
A semi-anonymous writer and editor reviewing others' reviews of indie music parlays blog buzz into actual people in a real-life record store clamoring for copies of his throwback printed product, a zine.
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Venture For America Wants To Create 100,000 New Jobs By Matching College...
Andrew Yang founded Venture for America to tackle unemployment, one aspiring entrepreneur at a time.Andrew Yang wants to create jobs. Specifically, 100,000 U.S. jobs by 2025.It’s an ambitious goal, but...
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Advertising Pioneers CP+B and Hyper Island Hawk World Peace
And, no, "World Peace" is not line of organic specialty soaps. Can a group of people typically associated with stoking our consumerist urges achieve a plan for world peace? In 72 hours? Since...
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Inside The Papal iPad, Reid Hoffman Expects Facebook IPO In Early 2012, iPad...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Pope To Light World's Largest Christmas Tree Via iPad. The world's largest electronic Christmas tree will be lit by Pope Benedict...
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Martin Scorsese On Vision In Hollywood
How Marty Scorsese risked it all and lived to risk again in Hollywood. Scorsese's Directors Orson Welles Roberto Rossellini Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger John Cassavetes Robert Altman...
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Revitalizing The Muppets Franchise
This month's The Muppets movie tries to reverse decades of brand mismanagement. table p {font-size:15px !important;line-height:1.3em !important;padding:8px !important;} THE FAULTTHE FIX Selling out...
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As "Breaking Dawn" Shatters Box Office, Its Screenwriter Breaks New Ground...
Screenwriter-producer Melissa Rosenberg helped make Breaking Dawn a box office smash by staying faithful to the books. With her next project Earthseed, she ditches fan loyalty for high fidelity, by...
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Nest Collective's Neil Grimmer Gets A New Generation To Eat Its Spinach--And...
Baby food is big business. At least it is when you do it like Nest Collective, a Bay Area company that has transformed the baby-food industry by introducing the now-commonplace, BPA-free spouted pouch...
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