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Small Screen, Big Idea: GetGlue Positioned To Power Social TV

GetGlue's an interesting little entity, and one you may not immediately think of when the topic of social medai, sharing, check-ins, and social review sites comes up. Yet as its press release today...

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A Year After LinkedIn Came Calling, CardMunch Poised To Make "The Rolodex...

All they wanted was some mac and cheese. It was late 2010, and Sid Viswanathan, Bowei Gai, and Sudeep Yegnashankaran were outside LinkedIn's headquarters, peering into the cafeteria. The three...

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Generation Flux: Danah Boyd

Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times....

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Web Video Gets Real-Time Translation In 50+ Languages

Canadian startup Ortsbo's new product can instantly translate Internet video into more than 50 languages in real time. And Gene Simmons is on board.At CES in Las Vegas today, Canadian startup Ortsbo...

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What's Behind Intel's Expensive Ultrabook Push?

Intel is in the news thanks to CES, its new Ultrabook, and an incredibly ambitious--not to mention pricey--marketing push. But the real news isn't the ad campaign for Ultrabooks. A more interesting...

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GLO Gaming's Lindsey Port Helps Brands Meet Gamers Where They Live

“Games have a huge audience and companies are sitting on mountains of unmonetized content,” says Lindsey Port, the founder of GLO Gaming, the fast-growing online and mobile ad platform that helps big...

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Kodak Sues Apple, Apple To Throw Education Event, Motorola Cutting Back On...

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Kodak Sues Apple. Kodak has filed two lawsuits in federal court in Rochester, New York, claiming Apple used without permission...

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Amazon's Plagiarism Problem

Amazon's erotica section isn't just rife with tales of lust, incest, violence, and straight-up kink. It's also a hotbed of masked merchants profiting from copyright infringement. And even with...

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Memberly Helps You Give Your Day Job The Finger

From coffee to crafts to paywalled blog posts, Memberly customers are building businesses based on predictability.
Jesse Thorn produces a web series that teaches men how to dress like grown ups. But...

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10 Steps To Turn Your Passion Into Your Business

I'm fascinated by the different types of people I meet in the business world and the way that their personalities show up in what they do. I'm drawn to people who have a quiet inner confidence that is...

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Don't Be The Spanish Armada: How Fast Is Your Fleet?

In 1588, 130 Spanish ships pointed their bows toward England, intent on invading the country and overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I. But they were unprepared for the battle they instigated. British ships...

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Screen Grabbing: Forget The Second-Screen TV Experience, How About A Third?

Once upon a time it was uncommon for households to have more than one television. Not anymore. Now, not only do we need several TVs, but tablets and smartphones while watching too. According to...

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The Four-Year Career

Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where "career planning" is an oxymoron. @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src:...

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5 Resources For The 4 Year Career

These five innovative nonprofits are all developing responses to the faster-changing world of work outlined in "Generation Flux" and "The Four-Year Career."Looking for a second career? Civic Ventures...

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Shazam Button To Appear On Traditional TV Remotes, As If By Magic

Shazam's future involves applying its discovery engine to television and all of the brands that flow through it, says CEO Andrew Fisher. And it could be as simple as a button on your channel flipper....

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Manufacture Of Raspberry Pi Begins, Israel Hacker Publishes Saudi Credit Card...

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Microsoft Scoops LG Into Its Android Patent Sack. Microsoft has announced it's just signed a licensing deal with LG to cover the...

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Foursquare, Google, And The Search Schism Of 2012

Earlier this week, Google launched Search+, and immediately the tech world cried foul. The new features heavily promote content from Google+, the company's social network, at the top of its search...

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5 Ways To Discover And Develop Your Unique Strengths

The business press loves to create mythic heroes of industry and we love it, too. To a point.As much as we love a business visionary like, say, Steve Jobs--and we love him to pieces--we are not Steve...

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Mais Non! France's "Free" Cell Phone Service Will (Likely) Never Work In The...

This week saw the launch of what could be seen as a revolutionary cell phone service in France. Contingent on a couple of rules, Free.fr is offering an all-but-free cell phone service that promises...

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"Angry Brides" Game Tackles Dowry In India, iPhone 5 To Run On T-Mobile?,...

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Shaadi.com Launches "Angry Brides" Facebook Game. Indian matchmaking giant Shaadi.com (#39 on Fast Company's list of Most...

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