Hey Facebook, Google Is Still The Most Talked-About IPO In Internet History
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Fast Company, May 21, 7:27pm
Everyme And Social Networking's Future
Everyme attracted nearly half a million users in their first month of operation. Here's why they jumped to the web and Android so quickly--and why Facebook's success is good news for other social networking services. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 5:53pm
Innovation Agents: Oscar Morales And One Million Voices Against FARC
Long before the Arab Spring, Oscar Morales was among the first people to use Facebook to mount a successful large-scale political activism effort. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 4:18pm
Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff
From Bogota to Tunisia, “bad diplomat” Suzanne Philion has spent a decade shaking up old-school notions of a career in Foreign Service. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 3:30pm
Microsoft Quietly Debuts New Social Network, So.cl
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Fast Company, May 21, 3:00pm
Why You Should Start a Company In... Greenville, South Carolina
The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing tech community that's about to bust out. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 1:33pm
14 Amazing Questions For BuzzFeed's Ben Smith
Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that BuzzFeed book? Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 12:31pm
"Ghost Recon" Comes To Facebook--Will It Zap Zynga?
Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon Commander," a Facebook version of the megapopular gaming franchise, is one of the most ambitious games ever created for Facebook. Will other game firms follow in its heavily armed footsteps? Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 12:13pm
Twitter Blocked Then Restored By Pakistan's Censors On Blasphemy Grounds
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Fast Company, May 21, 11:50am
Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon's 4 Rules For Tattoo-Level Brand Loyalty
Fast Company, May 21, 11:42am
Leap Motion's 3-D System Is Like A Kinect For Controlling Your Computer
Forget about jet packs. A San Francisco startup is about to bring "Minority Report"-style control to your computer. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 11:23am
Monster Seeks Fresh Mojo By Merging Facebook Networking App BeKnown With Its Job Site
Will it be enough to catch its many competitors? Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 11:01am
Reid Hoffman On PayPal's Pivoted Path To Success
Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, explains the five pivots of PayPal. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 10:44am
Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis
Fast Company, May 21, 10:31am
Facebook IPO: A Mega Meta Mashup Of Media
We hacked through the media coverage surrounding Facebook's massive IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups in one linkable extravaganza. Read more...
Fast Company, May 21, 10:19am
Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. Read more...
Fast Company, May 19, 1:46am
Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage Of All-Star Races
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Fast Company, May 19, 12:11am
Facebook Acquires Karma
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Fast Company, May 18, 6:05pm
Tracking Facebook's IPO Day On Social Media
Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors. Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 4:16pm
This Week In Bots: Are You Ready To Be More Machine Than Man And/Or Woman?
All the recent advances in robots that grip onto asteroids, walk like dogs, and replace damaged human limbs. Enjoy! Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 3:00pm
GameStop At A Crossroads
The game industry is entering a digital future. To maintain a place in it, retail chain GameStop has scaled the used game buy-back model that first made it a success--now it's buying used companies, too. Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 1:36pm
In Daymond John's World, For Every Startup, A Sexy Celebrity Pitchman
"I think tech is lacking sexiness," says Shark Tank personality and FUBU founder Daymond John. "I want to bring my understanding of lifestyle and culture to Silicon Valley." He's getting started by pairing socially savvy entertainer Pitbull with club-booking startup EzVIP. Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 1:24pm
Phil Fernandez And Marketo's Mission: Eliminate Cold Calling Forever
Meet Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and believer that cold calling should go the way of the dinosaur. Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 11:56am
Joel Stein, The World's Best Self-Promoter, On How To Be The World's Best Self-Promoter
Joel Stein wrote a book, "Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity," and went to outrageous lengths to promote it. Then he wrote this article so you can steal his ideas (and of course, to promote his book). Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 11:33am
Proof That Pinterest Drives Sales, And Its Fans Spend Big
Pinterest users not only buy the products they pin, but spend more on average than their Facebook counterparts, according to new data from Shopify. Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 10:50am
Good Eats: Meals With A Mission Makes Charity Intimate, Tasty
Gala dinners are too big. How about a smaller donation pool over a home-cooked meal? Read more...
Fast Company, May 18, 10:47am
Twitter Using Social Info From The Web To Recommend Follows For You
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Fast Company, May 18, 7:13am
Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age
Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away. Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 11:02pm
In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online
In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now. Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 8:27pm
Chris Mohney Storyboards Tumblr's Chaos
What would you do if you were named the first-ever editor of one of the world's fastest-growing media companies and put in charge of a publishing platform with about 44 million users? Chris Mohney on taking Tumblr beyond "F*&% Yeah" memes. Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 4:17pm
Derrick Ashong On Going Viral, Again and Again
Whether in the role of front man for world-music band Soulfege, hosting an award-winning TV show, or creating a better business model for independent artists, Derrick Ashong is just trying to communicate Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 3:54pm
J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar Dream, Confirms "Living Room" Plans
J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar." Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 3:13pm
Free Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn't Suck
More business-friendly than Groupon, and more respectful of user data than Facebook, Merchant Exchange is a one-stop shop for rewards programs. It'll save you money without creeping you out. Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 3:03pm
The 6 Huge Hiring Mistakes Everyone Makes
You need a top-notch team to do your best work--but you need to hire them first. Here's half a dozen common ways managers shoot themselves in the human-resources foot. Read more...
Fast Company, May 17, 11:58am
Facebook Insiders Cash Shares In, Pre-IPO Hackathon, New Apps
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Fast Company, May 17, 6:36am
Apple Rumor Patrol: Screen Mania, Skinny MacBook Pros, And iCloudy Delights
Fast Company, May 16, 7:25pm
Verizon Will Suspend Remaining 3G Unlimited Data Plans This Summer
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Fast Company, May 16, 6:53pm
With Knowledge Graph, Google Can Finally Tell The Difference Between Apple Inc. And Apples
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Fast Company, May 16, 6:16pm
How To Make The Most Of Your Too-Short Work Break
If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off in productivity? Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 4:16pm
Mapping New York's Tech Jobs
New York City's government just announced a new listing service for tech jobs. But what about that pesky poor-business-broadband-in-NYC problem? Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 4:16pm
Little Wows, And Other Ways To Make Your Business Remarkable
By establishing your business as the truly remarkable option in a field full of snoozers and look-alikes, you will get more free and effective publicity than any traditional advertising budget can buy. Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 4:13pm
Why You Should Start A Company In... Savannah
Steve Weathers, president and CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, shares five things you need to know about opening a business in the Hostess City of the South. Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 4:10pm
Why You (Yes, You!) Are The Future Of Branding
New research shows just how much we love to talk about ourselves. Twitter and Facebook have built massive platforms on this premise. How long before many other brands grab a piece of our action? Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 3:44pm
Fab.com: Ready, Set, Reset!
How Fab.com pivoted from a failed social network for gays to a retailing powerhouse valued at $200 million in less than 6 months. The third in our Pivot series. Read more...
Fast Company, May 16, 11:34am