The Inc. 500|5000 Conference plays host to vets and military spouses who are starting companies all over the country. As the wife of an active duty service man, South Carolina-native Stacy Swearengen knows the most challenging aspect of military spouse life: maintaining a career through multiple relocations.
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe
Read More »Check This Out: The New Coke 5!
From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
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Study of 16 injured men who needed surgery found most were cheaters
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I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs.
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More and more people are logging on to the Internet for the kind of relaxation and entertainment they used to look for on the boob tube. Yahoo Screen positions the company to capture some of those audiences
Read More »Autolib’: Could Paris’s Electric Car Share Be A Test Case For Cities Around The World?
Its massive bike share program showed that major cities could let citizens rent bikes, and inspired cities like New York and D.C.
Read More »Meet Anders Wahlquist From B-Reel, The Company That Helped Bring "The Wilderness Downtown" To Life
Though Swedish hybrid production company B-Reel has been around since 1999, merging film, interactive, games, and mobile to create new methods of storytelling, it exploded into the broader consciousness with 2010's " The Wilderness Downtown ." The interactive short film dreamed up by Chris Milk and the band Arcade Fire for its song "We Used To Wait" is a
Read More »Start-up Wants to Save You From Data Disaster
Axcient, which hopes to simplify data recovery for small businesses, has closed a $15.5 million funding round. Axcient, which is attempting to simplify data backup and disaster recovery for small businesses, announced it has closed a $15.5 round of Series C funding. The five-year-old start-up's aim is to make life easier for small businesses by being one-stop shopping for storage, backup and disaster-recovery as opposed to your needing to cobble together a solution from multiple providers
Read More »The Right Tax on the Wrong People
The American Jobs Act includes a clause that--if enacted on the venture capital industry--could hamper start-up investment, innovation, and, ultimately, job creation. Tucked away on Page 139 of Obama’s American Jobs Act, after the sections on payroll tax credits and unemployment benefits, are a few lines of text that could change the way venture capital investment works in this country.
Read More »A Nutrition Label For Building Products
We know what ingredients are in many of the products we buy, but often have no idea what the buildings we spend our lives in are made of. The Building Product Transparency Project is trying to change that
Read More »The I-Slate: A Low-Cost Tablet For Kids In The Developing World
This tiny tablet can be powered by the sun, and dramatically improves a student's abilities to learn math. Over the years, computers have become an integral part of education in the developed world. But what of schools in less wealthy areas that lack access to electricity, not to mention the cash for pricey electronics?
Read More »Breast cancer awareness in spotlight after airport screening incident
Breast cancer survivor says she was subjected to humiliating patdown at New York airport
Read More »Video: Chris Wragge’s triathlon
"Early Show" host Chris Wragge just competed in his first triathlon event - the Mighty Man Sprint Triathlon in Montauk, N.Y. Wragge shares his insights and lets viewers in to see some of his eight weeks of training in swimming, biking and running.
Read More »Can Facebook predict problem drinking? What study says
Facebook profiles that boasted "getting wasted" were tied to a higher risk of alcohol problems
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