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As the elderly become more tech-savvy, there are new apps and devices to help them lead better lives. A new device from Intel and GE is designed to connect seniors to each other--and to their caregivers. Social isolation in senior citizens is all too common

Apple's destined to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades. New businesses are starting smaller, surviving less often, and creating fewer jobs even when they thrive, according to new research. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s analysis of Labor Department and U.S

Renting with Airbnb, RIM layoffs, Facebook iPad app revealed, and more.

Reality star's mother also has autoimmune disease that can be triggered by stress

Think psoriasis is just red, itchy skin? It's a lot more complicated than that

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. RIM Ditches Over One In Ten Staff .

Dermot McCormack's led a digital turnaround that's put MTV on the top of the online heap as the web's most visited music destination.

Commerce goes on at an evening market, thanks to a solar-lighting initiative that helps private companies do business in sub-Saharan Africa. | Photograph courtesy of Lighting Africa An innovative program aims to light up off-the-grid Africa by boosting supply and demand for portable solar lamps. FOR NEARLY 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, sundown means living, working, and studying by flickering candlelight or polluting kerosene lamps

Professionally edited new media feeds kept concerned citizens informed, without having to sift through an unfiltered global reaction. This past year, social media replaced traditional news outlets as an unrivaled source of information for at least a few era-defining stories: Twitter broke the Osama Bin Laden story and YouTube became the window into the Arab Spring .

Gary Hoover is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator. He is the founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc. This is part two of my article series with Gary

Your iPhone can make calls (sort of) and check your email, sure, but new apps are being developed that will allow you to monitor your own health with just your phone. The iPhone is good for more than just playing Angry Birds and making on-the-fly Twitter updates

Some are calling him the next Tony Robbins.

Looking to start a benefit corporation, a nonprofit, or a for-profit company with a social purpose? Those whove done it say social entrepreneurism takes grit, resolve, and imagination. Fred Keller, founder and CEO of West Michigan plastics manufacturer Cascade Engineering, keeps a card in his pocket with a set of reminders from John Wesley, 18th century Methodist theologian, on conducting a good life

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.