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If the rumors are true, Google will launch a cloud service that aims squarely at Box. Does the start-up have what it takes to survive? Quick, answer this trivia question: How many stones did David use to kill Goliath

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. After cornering the online retail space for (e)books , electronics and consumer goods, Amazon

It takes one to know one. So we asked a range of successful entrepreneurs to name the companies they admire most and why. If it takes one to know one, who better to know great companies than entrepreneurs who have started great companies?

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week, Spigit, helps companies curate employee ideas and feedback to create a better product or service. As applications for the 2012 Inc.

You know those awkward growing pains? They happen to companies, too.

Breaking news from your Fast Company editors with updates all day. Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest and most powerful cell phone networks, has this morning spent a whopping £1 billion ($1.7 billion) to buy Cable & Wireless, an operator that has significant land-line assets and a business-centric portfolio. The deal catapults Vodafone into still more market dominance, since it now has a cable distribution network in addition to its extensive wireless one, and hooks the firm up to long-tail revenues from enterprise broadband buyers.

We ran three marketing test-with surprising results. Here's what our data revealed about the clicking habits of customers. For me, measurability is very important when it comes to marketing

Video production is getting cheaper, so Google is creating a self-service option for pre-roll advertisements aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. Google 's AdWords program has long been an easy way for businesses of all shapes and sizes to post their ads on Google Search results

The co-founder of Kayak.com explains why he prefers to hire travel industry virgins rather than people with more targeted experience. You have a position to fill and a bunch of resumes to look at. What's the first thing you scan for

Matt Maloney and Mike Evans founded GrubHub, an online restaurant delivery service, in Chicago in 2004.

For the first installment of an important Fast Company investigation into the business of jerky, we talk with David Koretz of New York-based SlantShack. Watch him try to sell us a $12,000 beef jerky eye patch.

Entrepreneurs are often incurable optimists. But if your optimism is clouding your vision, small problems can turn into business-threatening issues.

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian debated USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and former tour manager of The Band at our recent Innovation Uncensored event.

Simple things like taking the time to answer emails and tweets personally can go a long way to building good will, says Peter Shankman, founder of HARO. [twistage 648efc7b7fd80] For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at

Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within. When we entrepreneurs talk about "the dream," we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery.