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How Santa Anita Park Represents The Future Of Mobile Technology
When people think of horse tracks, they rarely consider them to be a part of the cutting edge of mobile technology. The mobile-wagering format at Santa Anita Park brings to light a form of mobile...
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Amazon, Netflix Lead, Lose On Customer Survey, YouTube Launches Voter...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon And Netflix Lead, Lose On Customer Survey. Tech companies claimed some highlights on ForSee's year end customer...
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Loans, Relays, And The Power Of Community: How RelayRides Uses Technology For...
For every business chasing the next must-have tech to stay ahead of the game, there are dozens reaching and failing to beat the competition. How can you choose the right strategy? The former director...
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Shai Reshef On Educating The World
Entrepreneur Shai Reshef founded University of the People in 2009. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, it is a tuition-free, online university aiming to provide a quality education to people in...
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Samsung's iPad Cloning Ways
As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong. But we also nailed a few things this year. Back...
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Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead's Reincarnation
I’m sitting in my office devouring a veggie burrito bowl and my mind wanders back to last summer when I was eating a similar meal. Only then, I was not at a desk in the New York City branding and...
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Top Corporate Sustainability Trends To Watch In 2012
As sustainability practices continue to mature, recent events and trends have set the stage for significant shifts in 2012. While corporate sustainability efforts traditionally have been motivated by...
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8 Essential Business Rules For Those Who Don't Believe In Rules
I don’t read a lot of business books. (Actually, I never read them.) But I do read the lists of the best-selling business books. Those lists give you a lot of insight into the current trendy areas for...
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NFC's Stuttering Start
As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong. But we also nailed a few things this year....
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Photo Issue 2011: Boing Boing's Founders, Shot By Glen Wexler
We covered how four people who do exactly what they want run one of the most popular blogs on the planet. The founders of Boing Boing bounce around on their steampunk pogo sticks. Photo by Glen Wexler...
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Photo Issue 2011: YouTube Is Blown Away
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar (front) and his team are blown away: Margaret Stewart (user experience), Shishir Mehrotra (monetization), Hunter Walk (product), and Robert Kyncl (TV and film). Photo by...
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Photo Issue 2011: Nihiru Necklace Made Of Bone And Ivory
Designer Monique Péan worked with native artisans of Shishmaref, Alaska, a community south of the Arctic Circle, to find fossilized walrus ivory and woolly-mammoth bone that they then carved by hand....
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Photo Issue 2011: Groupon's Andrew Mason, Shot By Saverio Truglia
Andrew Mason is the unlikely CEO of last year's unlikeliest breakout business, Groupon. The 30-year-old Midwestern music grad has transformed the bottom-feeding coupon trade into a billion-dollar...
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Photo Issue 2011: SynCardia's Artificial Heart
SynCardia makes the Total Artificial Heart, the only complete heart-replacement device approved by the FDA. Last year, it began a clinical study for its Freedom portable driver, a 13.5-pound external...
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Photo Issue 2011: Chief Almir Of The Surui
For a man whose way of life has been threatened by modernity, activist and tribal leader Chief Almir of the Surui people of the Brazilian Amazon has looked to a surprising source to help his tribe...
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Photo Issue 2011: Conan O'Brien, Shot By Matthias Clamer
Comedy writing has two main ingredients, Conan O'Brien says. Part one: left-brain bullshitting. Part two: seeing ideas up on their feet, in rehearsal, and then reworking them. Photo by Matthias Clamer...
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Photo Issue 2011: Conan As The Great Creatives In History
Shot for our Most Creative People feature: (l to r) Madonna, Conan O'Brien, Steve Jobs, Moses, Teddy Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, Socrates, Ben Franklin. Photo by Matthias Clamer See more...
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Photo Issue 2011: Marketer Colin Spooner, Shot By Jason Madara
Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Colin Spooner manages a consultancy launched by ad agency Pereira & O'Dell, whose majority owner is Brazilian...
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Photo Issue 2011: Israel, Land Of Oil And Money
Israel may be the world's next energy superpower. But is this good for the Jews? Depicting a Star of David covered in the black toxicity of oil makes that question real. Photo by Justin Metz See more...
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Photo Issue 2011: David Lauren, Shot By Francois Dischinger
David Lauren is turning his father's empire into a digital leader--and shaking up the fashion industry. Lauren wearing a simple and elegant white suit allows him to be projected as a towering figure....
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