We love em. You loved em. Unless you missed em. Heres your chance to catch up. This week Robyn Benincasa analyzed different leadership styles and offered advice on the best times to use them. We also...
While some robotics research pursues freaky tech suggesting Terminator-like powers, other scientists are putting robots to good work, helping teachers in the classroom. Yep, just like Walt Whitman, b...
Inspired by an hour wait to pay his check at a business lunch, Rick Orr came up with TabbedOut, a nationwide mobile payment software platform. Now Austin eateries are ordering apps from him! UNITED S...
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.2011 was a rough year for Netflix. One bright spot? The company surpassed Apple to become the leader in the U.S. online movie business, according t...
A new camera system for San Franciscos MUNI system will use algorithms and machine learning to track and monitor commuters. Can computer programs predict bad guys... and what will they be looking for...
Some classic public domain books for the Nook appear to be stripped of any mention of the word "Kindle," no matter what the context, resulting in some odd reading.One blogger recently discove...
You don’t need to put down roots in New York or Silicon Valley to thrive in business today. John Dearborn, president of the nonprofit VC JumpStart Inc., offers three tips for maximizing resources in ...
Before he cofounded the world’s largest professional network, Allen Blue was lighting and designing theater sets, a career that taught him the value of passion and connection.As cofounder and vice pr...
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Microsoft has finally drawn the curtain on its public preview edition of Windows 8, its next-generation operating system. This release is the final...
KEY (OUT OF FIVE): LEARNABILITY: SCHMOOZABILITY: COSTABILITY: June 6th InnoTown Innovation Conference, Alesund, Norway Learn from CEOs, physicists, and Barack Obamas chief blogger. 11th Designing Int...
When leaders, especially high-profile ones, crash and burn, lack of accountability is often the reason--just ask John Edwards. And it could happen to any of us if we’re not careful. Ask yourself thes...
One of the amazing incidental benefits of running a business is that I can honestly say I like every single person I work with. Building a strong, cohesive culture has been a top priority at my brand...
With 45 competition medals under his toque and a coveted spot in the culinary Olympics Bocuse dOr, chef Richard Rosendales learned a thing or two about leadership in a pressure cooker. “Two cups of a...
It takes as much time to solve a bad problem as it does a good problem. And if you’re not working on good problems, you’re really wasting your time.Serial innovators are not looking for opportunities...
Illegal downloaders of HBOs wildly popular fantasy show could learn a thing or two from the Lannisters about paying debts. Recently, with a tone of barely concealed glee, Forbes declared that HBO’s G...
The app maker is launching Snap to teach Hipstamatic users how to take better photos and land in its pages. (And use Hipstamatic more.)There are casual iPhoneographers, and then there are Hipstamatic...
A new advanced persistent threat named IXESHE (pronounced I-Sushi) was recently discovered on the computer networks of Taiwanese electronics companies and several East Asian governments. The IXESHE c...
Arianna Huffington, Cirque du Soleil, and Francis Ford Coppola all specialize in high-wire acts of different sorts. One more thing they now have in common: All of them appeared at the first-ever C2-M...
I typed this out from my Shangri-La Hotel room in downtown Sydney, overlooking the harbor and the city’s famous opera house. Somewhere above the opera house spires, a new era arrived: The first priva...
What experiences as an archaeologist taught 27-year-old Jessica Goldfin about community-building games, newsroom convergence, and innovation in any occupation. As an undergraduate student of art and ...
Where before they could only donate, now the crowd can invest. What does it mean for startups? We talk with Sang Lee of the National Crowdfunding Association to find out.Sang Lee is the founder of Re...
Cricket Wireless has just become the first carrier to sell the iPhone in the U.S. as part of a pre-paid plan. Starting June 22, for $55 buyers of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S will have access to unlimi...
The real potential of innovation comes from the power of surfacing unexpected ideas, connecting the dots, and putting them together in new and magical ways. Enter Campus Party, the next-next event in...
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. The advertising industry seems somewhat resistant to the economic woes in Europe right now--it rose 0.8% in 2011. Online ads seem to be growing be...
In the last five years, a growing number of studies and surveys have highlighted the importance of innovation for the economic health of companies and countries. Perhaps the most significant survey r...
Whitney Phillips got her PhD from the University of Oregon in English with a Folklore structured emphasis. But the subject of her dissertation was Internet trolls. Heres some of what she learned abou...
With stylish salons featuring bacteria-banishing practices that would make a hospital green with envy and luxe-but-affordable services, Sue Thirlwall is planning to take MiniLuxe to the masses and di...
Effective communication never consists of words alone. There must be a purpose behind those words that calls an audience to action. The result of this action is, ideally, identical to what we call a ...
If marketers have their way, thats how the personal ads of the near future will read.It was a balmy summer day in July when Joe Sparano and his girlfriend Kristin Kacerik planned a picnic to celebrat...
Googles Project Glass product lead Steve Lee walks us through his experience with the development of the companys sci-fi-inspired eyewear--from his teams "hundreds of variations and dozens of ear...
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