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The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again. Felix Barrett would like to blow that notion to hell, using the unlikely weapon of theater

The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again.

A Brief History of Inc.com Fifteen years ago this month, Inc.com was born. To mark the occasion, we took a ride in the way-back machine

More of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps

The rental car agencies new car sharing business hits Zipcar where it hurts: cheaper prices and electric cars. Hertz has offered a Zipcar-like carsharing service for years, but you probably didn't notice--the service charged an annual fee, came with many of the hidden cost associated with standard car rentals, and was only available in limited locations. But the company has apparently realized that car sharing can be lucrative when done right, so this week Hertz nixed the old program and replaced it with Hertz on Demand , a carsharing service on steroids

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Now add a billionaire benefactor--PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel--bankrolling you and under pressure to prove that entrepreneurship can rival Harvard as a path to success

The latest travel trend is incorporating tech into offerings at hotels, airports, on airplanes and more. Virgin America and Ace Hotel in NYC have announced partnerships with Google to provide guests with Chromebooks for free on select flights. iPads, however, are already lots of other places

Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference kicks off on Monday, with Steve Jobs giving the keynote address.

A bootstrapper's guide to saving money on office furniture, phone service, computers, business travel, and more For self-funded entrepreneurs, there are few skills more crucial than the ability to do more with less. That could be why many business owners take pride in hunting down deals and driving hard bargains. In that spirit, we have compiled tips to help you save big on a variety of office necessities.

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Mike Tyson's entered the next phase of his career: creative consultant for the wildly successful iPhone game, "Mike Tyson: Main Event." And while plenty of celebrities lend their names to products, Tyson tells Fast Company he's poured his heart into this one--and found kindred spirits among hardcore gamers.

Photographs Jason Madara Eight Sparks of Inspiration. .green{ color:rgb(120,180,26); font-weight:bold; } AS A GLOBE-TROTTING principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel

There was a time when Tiger Woods would have responded to the perceived slight in the way he knew best — with his clubs. A 65 on Sunday, perhaps, good enough to slip on another green jacket while Ian Poulter waited at the airport for a flight home.

We may not yet be able to power large airplanes sustainably with biofuels, but there are still ways that the airline industry can easily cut down on its fuel use and CO2 emissions. One ultra-simple solution: Keep planes at the gate longer with their engines turned off instead of having them idle on the runway. The idea comes courtesy of Hamsa Balakrishnan , an MIT professor specializing in airspace efficiency, in a paper published in the MIT Technical Report ( PDF )

An employee comes to you claiming fear that a co-worker might cast a spell on her. What do you do