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Startup Malaysia brought Silicon Valley ideas to the tropical shores to encourage entrepreneurship--and hear a little local hip-hop. Jawed Karim, cofounder of YouTube, Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList, Konstantin Guericke, cofounder of LinkedIn, and Saad Khan, a partner at CMEA investments, took a trip to Malaysia last week. And they weren’t there to splash in tropical waters

Experts say many people fail to appreciate lethal threat posed by binge drinking

Robot Fly Trap A professor at the University of Maine has made a robot version of a plant that in some ways is a robot all by itself...the Venus Fly Trap. The diminutive fly-grabber is partly made of a nanomaterial called ionic polymeric metal composite, which acts to replicate the tiny sensitive hairs inside a real trap that send a signal to the closing mechanism when stimulated by a fly landing inside--in this case the nanomaterial, when flexed, sends a tiny electrical signal through an amplifier to the two "leaves" of the trap, made out of the same material. When the bigger signal hits the leaves, they flex in reaction...and trap the fly.

Thursday, November 3 One-fifth of young Americans donate time to a cause. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Zuma Press At any given moment , young volunteers across the globe are building schools and feeding the hungry--efforts that will be celebrated at this Barranquilla, Colombia, gathering

Wednesday, November 2 The Someru Community Center houses the local government and a library. | Courtesy of Someru Community Center While the economic crunch has frozen cranes at project lots around the world, it hasn't stalled creativity. Witness the 704 entries submitted to the World Architecture Festival's fourth annual competition

Thursday, November 3 Last year , the Detroit-based automaker adopted the tagline "Chevrolet runs deep." Boy, are they right. Over the past century, the all-American automobile manufacturer has zoomed from low-cost Ford alternative to sports-car pioneer to surprisingly brisk seller overseas. Here, how a car company that began as a thumb of the nose at rival General Motors became one of GM's postbankruptcy bright spots

Tuesday, November 1 Big Pharma is worried.

Designer contact lenses are not one-size-fits all, FDA warned

How can the U.S. ease the process of starting a business

When I started writing a blog to support my book, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle , I had an inkling that many of the words I loathed were common in the offices where I was working. But this could be an illusion: Once we’re bothered by something, we tend to notice it more.

Candy from a stranger? That's the least of worries for trick-or-treaters and their parents

How do you follow up a critically acclaimed, blockbuster game? If you're Bioshock writer/director Ken Levine, you let someone else handle the sequel while you re-imagine the series. Here, Fast Company talks Bioshock Infinite with Levine, and the lead actors, Courtney Draper and Troy Baker.

84% of Realtors are currently using social media. Century 21 is leveraging Facebook to turn those conversations into sales

There's a shortlist of mistakes companies and brands typically make when trying to sell products to women. Marketing missteps can hurt sales, but more importantly, they can actually turn women off from your brand entirely. If you've ever committed the sin of "pink it and shrink it," it's time to reimagine your strategy

Panel considering whether to test now - or administer untested vaccine later in event of bioterror attack