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These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch

How can you tell if your e-commerce company is going to grow or fall flat on its face? These three measurements hold the key.

It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source .

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source . In a surprise move, Twitter announced that the code from Whisper Systems' TextSecure SMS anonymizer is being released to the open source community

If logic had anything to do with it, One Kings Lane , the online shop with daily deals on luxe home furnishings, wouldn’t have made it beyond a friendly conversation about the dearth of destinations to shop for décor between founders Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. In 2009, U.S. home prices were in free-fall and foreclosures hit record highs as delinquent loans piled up

How can schools--desperate to increase technology in the classroom--decide which tablets they should invest in? All the new tablets are an opportunity and a nail-biter for schools: Do you go with the oh-so-sleek iPad?

Deciding whether to build a tablet or smartphone specific site requires an evaluation process, but it could be worth the payoff. Amazon has been making headlines much of September

We installed and tested out a very early build of Windows 8 so you don't have to. Here's what's notable and productive in this version.

Ideeli sells apparel, accessories, shoes, and home and travel items through a members-only shopping site.

From online deal sites and gamification to digital marketing and online payments, these Internet companies are reaping all of the benefits with none of the brick and mortar overhead. Paul Hurley, CEO New York City No. 1 2010 Revenue: $77.7 million Three-Year Growth: 40,882% Founded in 2006 and based in New York City, ideeli has pioneered the idea of the flash deals site and is the Inc.

To help prevent pedestrian accidents, otherwise silent electric cars must emit a noise while they drive. What noise

Sites such as Ideeli, Lot18, Gilt Groupe, and Rue La La are offering carefully curated deals at reduced prices.

Instant access to almost any song you can think of, free personalized radio--digital music's time has come. How can you take advantage of the streaming riches without tanking your workday? With the U.S

A top Department of Homeland Security official has admitted to Congress that imported software and hardware components are being purposely spiked with security-compromising attack tools by unknown foreign parties.