Monday's when we finally hear all about Apple's cloud services offering iCloud. We don't know much, but thanks to enterprising photographers at the Moscone West center where Apple's event will be held, we now know what the logo looks like
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Feed SubscriptionAaron Levie, CEO Of Box.net, On The Future Of The Cloud
For this installment of our forward-looking Crystal Ballin' series we speak with the man who founded his could-based file-sharing platform in college.
Read More »Dark Clouds: Quickbooks Payroll Outage
This was a bad week for Intuit. But, it was even worse for employees who count on Intuit's Quickbooks payroll services to process their direct deposit paychecks via the cloud. Unfortunately, the "cloud" had an outage just in time for the first of the month
Read More »Check-Off: How Facebook Places Stacks Up Against Foursquare At Airports, Hotels, Times Square
How does Facebook Places stack up against Foursquare ? It's a question many have wondered since the world's largest social network jumped into the check-in game
Read More »Crazy Sexy Windows 8 Has Scorching Hot New Looks … But It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky showed off Windows 8 at AllThingsD's conference Wednesday night . It's all flashy and color, with Windows Phone 7-like dynamic homescreen "panels" from its Metro UI which contain updating information available at a glance from the apps they relate to.
Read More »Andrew Mason’s $575 Salary, Groupon’s $750 Million IPO
Let's begin with the biggest news of the day: Groupon 's CEO makes 575 times what Steve Jobs makes as chief exec at Apple.
Read More »Tech Pioneer Becomes Obama Campaign CTO
If there was any doubt the Obama re-election campaign was going to stomp into new digital territory in the upcoming race, it was erased by today’s announcement that it is appointing uber-hipster and tech rebel Harper Reed as the organization’s CTO. Reed, who is 33 according to the Chicago Tribune , is the former CTO of Threadless, an online clothing company that pioneered crowdsourced design
Read More »This Is What The U.S. AIDS Epidemic Looks Like
A new interactive map of U.S. cases shows that HIV is probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. It has been just 30 years since the first cases of HIV were diagnosed
Read More »Do You Need Recurring Revenue?
John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business.
Read More »Robots With Laser Vision, Ford’s New $100M Investment [Video]
Ford's new army of laser-sighted robots has the very benevolent aim of reducing wind noise in your next car. As Henry Ford famously wrote of his fledgling automotive company a century ago, "We shall lead the nation in its race to build an army of robots with laser vision." OK, Henry Ford did not write that, famously or otherwise, which is why we scratched our heads upon learning this morning that Ford is investing $100 million in, well, an army of robots with laser vision.
Read More »Disney To Stream Videos, Food Pyramid Is Swapped For A Plate, Jack Ma Tells Yahoo To Split, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Disney Goes Hulu Disney will launch a video-streaming site for their content within a year, according CEO Bob Iger.
Read More »The "Apply With LinkedIn" Button Will Not Disrupt HR Industry
By increasing the volume of "spray-and-pray" candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?
Read More »China’s Real Estate Bubble Is Making Your Cell Phone Obsolete–And Valuable
In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we follow the impact of China's bulging real estate market on commodities such as copper, the latest tech innovations those commodities enable, the scrap they create, and the subsequent recycling opportunities--in China. 1.
Read More »NeighborGoods Aims To Be A Prettier, More Social, Community-Generating Craigslist
A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world. NeighborGoods , the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.
Read More »Will Flip Cam Founder’s New Restaurant The Melt Survive The Cutthroat Grilled Cheese Industry?
Jonathan Kaplan has launched The Melt, a chow chain backed by James Beard award-winning designers, Michelin Star award-winning chefs, kitchen workflow engineers, and millions of dollars from Sequoia Capital. The Flip Cam was pretty awesome, too.
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