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Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could both shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch. Al Jazeera might have some new competition. Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Fox Squeezes Net Access To Its Shows

It's time to start writing epitaphs.

Suddenly, video chat is basically inescapable, if not always necessary. Very soon, "I don't have a camera" won't fly, and some of us will have to actually stay seated during conference calls. A few days ago, Facebook broke its text-and-photo format wide open and launched instant Skype video calling for Facebook friends .

“We call it the difference between mechanics and magic,” says Bala Krishnan (right) of the ultra-intuitive TV remote he created with partner Thiru Arunachalam. | Photograph by Toby Burditt How Peel cracked the code of navigating the gazillion-channel universe. AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, there are thousands of programs ready to stream via satellite dishes and cable wires -- everything from Jersey Shore to Hawaii Five-0

The AARP is known for the following: retirement benefits, travel discounts, and commercials of old people smiling, frowning, or falling down. But last month, the nonprofit organization for those 50 and older launched a new service that takes advantage of a massive untapped market in the digital music industry: baby boomers

A look behind the scenes at what it took to make it onto this year's list, and at some of the emerging trends it illuminates about young entrepreneurship today. What does it take to make the 30 Under 30 list? It's a question that we're asked often, and one that's a bit difficult to answer.

Sony's not being held back by its recent woes. Instead, it's taking its new cloud-based music system mobile for the first time

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are no longer enough to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of today's promotional media. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation

Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution.

There was a lot of snickering Thursday after Groupon announced an IPO valuing it at $30 billion. But the company might actually be worth a lot more than people think. It didn’t take long after Groupon filed for an IPO Thursday that valued the company at $20 billion for the snark to start flying around the web.

At the AllThingsD conference Wednedsay, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings expressed lots of love for the high-end content produced by premium cable stars HBO and Showtime.