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At the beginning of 2011, Fast Company set out to spend a year in China, documenting the transition, transformation, and innovation in that country.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Doodle celebrates Marie Curie's birthday. Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Space Shuttle Atlantis Coming Home For Ever . At 4:18 this morning EDT , the Space Shuttle Atlantis fired its maneuvering rockets to take it away from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth for one final time, closing the Shuttle era

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?

China may be wising up to international condemnation of its lax copyright protection standards, as the Ministry of Culture has revealed it will "punish" local search giant Baidu for facilitating illegal music downloads.

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The book: Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, by Stephen Denny; Portfolio. The big idea: Dominant, deep-pocketed companies are often so myopic they don't notice the upstarts sprinting between their feet.

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