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Frictionless And Merchant-Friendly, Loyalty Cloud Borrows The Square Model To...
The startup Womply recently brought us Groupon-like "effortless offers." Today it launches Loyalty Cloud, hoping to slice through the messy customer-loyalty market with the "simplest loyalty program...
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How Michael Acton Smith Got Out Of Perplex City And Found Moshi Monster Success
"If ever there is a moment to join or start up your own company this is it," says Smith; "to be the little nimble startups that can run rings around the major corporations and move faster than them and...
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Meet Google Music's Chief Record Store Geek, Tim Quirk
To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob...
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Microsoft And GE Team Up For Healthcare IT, Facebook's Snappy Update For...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Google remembers Mexican artist Diego Rivera on today, his 125th birthday, with an autobiographical Doodle, in the mural style the...
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An X-Ray Machine The Size Of An iPhone That Looks Like A Star Trek Tricorder
California startup Tribogenics is betting that their technology will transform health care--and investors seem to agree.X-ray machines traditionally use bulky power sources to generate rays. However,...
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Plum District's New Tech Tools Turn Stay-At-Home Moms Into Digital Era Street...
The "Groupon for Moms" just scooped up $20 million in funding. It's not your father’s deal company. Instead, this startup is figuring out how to use technology to drive business for local merchants....
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General Mills Wants Your Ideas For Its Next Cereal Game And Cake App
General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas.Debating whether it’s best to be first to...
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Richard Branson: Screw Business As Usual, And Make Your (Huge Piles Of) Money...
"There's certainly not an incapability between doing well and doing good," eccentric billionaire Sir Richard Branson tells Fast Company. Branson's new book, Screw Business As Usual (which goes on sale...
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Cable TV's Female Execs On The Future Of Television
In this extended version of the roundtable article from our latest issue, three of cable's female executives talk about how television is evolving, how shows fail or succeed, and how everyone loves...
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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Former Facebook VP Back New Social Network Designed...
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Facebook executive Matt Cohler drop $15 million into education startup Edmodo. Can creating an education graph transform how schools do their job?Silicon...
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Variety Launches Fact-Checked IMDB Alternative With $1,000 Subscriptions
For years now, all movie trivia arguments ended with IMDB, the Internet Movie Database. But today, Variety launches Flix Tracker, a database that aggregates all types of Hollywood data using the...
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Plunging Cleavage Made As Literal As Possible In Wonderbra Promotion
From the Is This Really Necessary Files: An ad launch for Ultimate Plunge Wonderbra sees women actually plunging down a giant projected neckline right into... well, you know where.It takes courage to...
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How Your Dog Can Teach You To Speak To Your Audience
For 10 months, my dog Layla and I had some serious communication issues. I'd say "stay," and she'd trot toward me for a treat. I'd say "jump," and she'd hit the floor, legs splayed. If I wanted her to...
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Bluefin Mines Social Media To Improve TV Analytics
Social media has a lot to say about T.V. Can Bluefin cash in on that?Deb Roy created Bluefin's business plan with an MIT colleague in 48 hours. | Photo by Brad Dececco Bluefin Labs sits on the...
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Lot18 Expands Wine Flash-Sale Dominance To Europe, Acquires Paris-based Vinobest
New York-based startup Lot18 is bringing its online wine business to Europe, acquiring Paris-based Vinobest for an undisclosed sum. The two-year-old company, often referred to as a sort of epicurean...
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The Next Great Media Form
Not only is the business of journalism changing, so is the journalism. Many have written about the changing news business, how the economics of inefficiency that characterized newspapers ad sales,...
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The Art Of The Live Blog
An interview with Reuters Social Media Editor, Anthony DeRosa.Earlier this year Anthony DeRosa was working on the agency side of Reuters, managing its API, when editors on the news side heard of his...
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Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell's Secret Weapon: Naivete
"I wanted to make something bigger than myself," says Mitchell.Frustration can be a great motivator. Just ask Alastair Mitchell, the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a set of tools for collaborating with...
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Lessons About Guerilla Filmmaking--And Life--From A Feature-Length Music Video
Jacob Krupnick's feature-length, Girl Talk-scored music video, "Girl Walk // All Day," debuted yesterday. Today, Krupnick walks us through making a mega dance spectacle while all of New York goes about...
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Work Smart: Strive For Creative Meritocracy
Most industries, and society as a whole, are plagued with inefficiencies, middlemen, and a tainted system that gets in the way of recognizing quality work. We're up against centries of entrenched...
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