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How $1.25 Billion Gets Spent In A Day: "Austerity Fatigue" And High Tech
Checking in with IBM, comScore, Mercent, and Envirosell to play Cyber Monday quarterback. Or, as IBM's John Squire calls it: "The best day ever."Cyber Monday, which was invented by the National Retail...
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Rumor Patrol: New iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs
A crazy year for Apple shows no sign of slowing as 2012 approaches--more and more rumors are popping up. We've looked at them with a critical eye for you.MacBook Air 15-inch And RefreshDigitimes...
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Twitter's Security Startup Acquisition Increases Danger For Egyptian Activists
Twitter has purchased Android encryption software RedPhone--and made it temporarily unavailable to Egyptians. The move comes after one popular Twitter personality was jailed on terrorism and murder...
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Barnes & Noble Battles Microsoft Patents, Apple Explains Siri Search Glitch,...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Barnes & Noble Hires Legal Hot-Shot To Combat Microsoft Patents. David Boies, pivotal in bringing a huge and...
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General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few
In the future of education, some General Assembly may be required.From left: General Assembly founders Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves. | Photo by Ian Spanier In a...
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The Verge And The Wirecutter Prove That The World Actually Does Need 2 More...
The Verge's Joshua Topolsky and The Wirecutter's Brian Lam hope to distinguish themselves in a crowded field. By taking two vastly different approaches, they may just do it. "[Josh is] the sun at the...
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The Vision Thing: Warby Parker's David Gilboa Disrupted An Industry And...
"A huge driving force for our entire founding team has been this concept of really being a force for good in the world," says Gilboa.If all you know about Warby Parker is that it sells great-looking...
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Why Google Is The Most Important Learning Tool Ever Invented
Author and education prognosticator Tom Vander Ark on making education more more valuable and more relevant (even in search terms). Tom Vander Ark at TedxManhattanBeach. [Image: hermosawave via...
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"Apps" Like Rolling Stone's Could Shine A Light On Spotify's Missing Links
Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers. But what happens when the elite critics it's co-opting for its newest feature recommend Led Zeppelin, Adele, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, or...
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Concerned About Facebook Privacy? Drink Up
Norte Beer is friending drinkers with a new face-saving social media helper--the Photoblocker. One of the great ironies of our time is the sheer number of Facebook users who label their debauched...
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Leadership Hall of Fame: Daniel Pink, Author of "Free Agent Nation"
With the economic downturn and the evolution of the business world in the last 10 years, has our ability to succeed on our own changed? We continue our examination of the business book Free Agent...
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Golf, The Abominable Game That Won't Help Your Career
On a summer day in 1975, I stepped up the tee at the Liberty Country Club. It was the first time I ever played on a real golf course. My father stood back and watched as I drew back and swung as hard...
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ShareThis, Not That: The Social Quality Index Will Measure Your Websites'...
As the web universe continues to expand (just like the real one--Hubbell’s Law anyone?) Kurt Abrahamson is hyper-focused on drilling down. Specifically, the recently installed CEO of ShareThis wants to...
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Forget The Stock Market; Invest In Yourself
I often hear from business owners requesting financial advice--as in, “Where should I put my money? Stocks? Bonds? Gold?” In recent months, traditional investments have experienced extreme...
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Rare Beer Club Serves Up Artisanal Brews For Monthly Subscribers
Forget jelly-of-the-month clubs.Photo by James Worrell Offering beer as a token of holiday goodwill can be tricky. It's gauche to put a six-pack under the tree, and nothing says "I forgot" like a brown...
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Google, Nokia, Ericsson And Navigation's Next Frontier: The Great Indoors
Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? That's a problem that buildings like large...
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Why Girls Don't Want Careers In Tech
This week I was lucky enough collect an award at Red Magazine's Hot Women Awards 2011, which celebrates successful women in industry. What made the experience all the more rewarding was being able to...
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Amazon's Kindle Fire Blazed Through An Army Of Androids
The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's...
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Zynga Targets $1 Billion IPO, Groupon Investigated For Ad Code Breach, EU...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day."Androidland" Store Touches Down In Melbourne. Google, Austrialia telecom company Telstra, and handset makers have teamed up to...
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As Job Dissatisfaction Heats Up, Don't Let Your Company Lose The Game Of...
If the surveys are correct, 2012 could go down in history as the year of corporate musical chairs. The results of recent studies conducted by Gallup, Mercer, and Right Management are alarming....
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