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Valentina Cirasola is the owner and principal designer of her design company Valentina Interiors & Designs. Her goal since she opened the interior design business in 1990 has always been to transform people’s lives by transforming their spaces. She had ...
Read More »Reflections from Occupy Wall Street
As the tents are carted away from Zuccotti Park this morning, just blocks away from Inc. Magazine's headquarters, I've been reflecting on the "Occupy" movement. As the tents are carted away from Zuccotti Park this morning, just blocks away from Inc
Read More »Breast cancer study ties chemo to foggy thinking
Study gives support to breast cancer patients who complain of "chemo brain"
Read More »Prostate cancer tied to birth-control pills, but why?
New research shows high rates of prostate cancer in nations where women rely on oral contraceptives
Read More »How I Launched in Mexico—In Just Three Weeks
Cliff Schertz decided that Mexico was a better spot than India to locate his software start-up. Here's how he got it going in record time.
Read More »"Twilight" Soundtrack Saga: Why There Will Be No "White Wedding" For Bella And Edward
The retail music landscape may be walking dead, but the carefully curated soundtracks to the Twilight franchise are alive and well, thanks to music supervisor Alex Patsavas "marriage" of story and song, featured in the upcoming Breaking Dawn--Part 1. Darkness may have washed over the retail music landscape (RIP, Tower Records ; Fare thee well, Virgin Megastore ), but hordes of teenagers dressed in black and clutching hardcover books nonetheless descended upon Hot Topic stores in malls across America last weekend for a nationally synchronized CD listening party. On November 5th , Twi-hards, those obsessive, dedicated fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series and the blockbuster movies it spawned, gathered to listen to the soundtrack to Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1, just as they had in 2008 , 2009 , and 2010 .
Read More »Penn State: What Would Your Employees Have Done?
Mike McQueary's failure to stop the crime he witnessed was tragic, but not unusual. How can you be sure your employees would have done better?
Read More »Formerly conjoined twins prepare to go home
Angelina and Angelica Sabuco recovering successfully two weeks after their operation
Read More »Can The Bump Cube Connect Merchants And Consumers (While The Company Collides With Cash)?
What's the future of Bump? The popular iPhone and Android app , which enables users to share media simply by "bumping" smartphones together, recently hit 63 million downloads. It's likely one of the few social networks that's actually social, requiring physical interaction to work in most cases, with users sharing everything from contacts to apps to music to pictures (close to 2 million photos are bumped over the network per day)
Read More »AmberWatch TV Dials In On Child Abuse, Cyberbullying
The AmberWatch Foundation amps up its fight against child abuse with a new interactive TV channel that will reach 3 million viewers. Call it kismet, coincidence, or something else. Today AmberWatch TV is launching, right on the heels of the Penn State alledged child sexual abuse case
Read More »Scars, birthmarks shown to hurt job seekers’ chances
Study shows interviewers give lower ratings to job candidates who have scars, birthmarks on their faces
Read More »How to Spread a Great Idea
Got great ideas? Channel your inner Seth Godin and start spreading them around
Read More »Report: Necessity Driving Entrepreneurship
New study reveals that more people are starting businesses as a source of higher income than out of opportunity. Necessity, not opportunity, is driving entrepreneurship, says a new report. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a nonprofit research consortium, Monday released its latest National Entrepreneurial Assessment for the United States.
Read More »NYPD Clears Out Zuccotti Park, Christie’s To Hold Online-Only Auction, Australian Court Will Hear Samsung vs. Apple In March
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. NYPD Clears OWS Camp In Zuccotti Park . New York police cleared the makeshift Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park last night displacing the assembled protestors at what was the heart of the global Occupy protests
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