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Five ways I was recently amazed by undergrads competing in a business plan competition at Texas Christian University. As I get older, I love to talk about how times have changed

By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) - Wild Well Control, a company that helped tackle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Kuwait's raging oil fires, have joined efforts to avert disaster at a leaking gas platform off Scotland, rig operator Total said. Firefighters and engineers from the Houston-based company are experts at disasters such as oil rig explosions and have been dubbed "Hellfighters" by Hollywood. The firm was hired along with Britain's Oil Spill Response, Total said this week, after a gas leak began last Sunday aboard its Elgin platform some 240 km (150 miles) off the east coast of Scotland

Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, said no to offers from Google and Apple, and is running one of the world's fastest growing Web start-ups.

The community you build at work is just as important as anything else you do. A case in point. I debated sharing this story here because of how recently these events had taken place.

If you're employees aren't having fun, they're probably not performing at their highest level. So ease up already and try one of these tactics. How often when you leave your home for the office do you think, "I'm going to have fun today"?

I recently spent the day with author Andrea Kates, who was challenged to connect the relevance of the working philosophy found in her best-selling book, Find Your Next , with real solutions that can help move businesses forward.

Here are 5 reasons your city makes a big difference to the success of your business. We all hear about the critical role that businesses play in the competitiveness and economic growth of our cities.

When Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's national spotlight faded, she needed help, but couldn't afford a consultant. Chloe Dao knew she needed help. But she didn't know where to find it.

If you flew from Houston to Chicago on November 7, your jet might have been fueled by something new-- specially grown algae . United Flight 1403 burned a blend of traditional petroleum-based jet fuel and bio-jet fuel refined from algal oil . [More]

When people email photos, they sometimes compress the images, removing redundant information and thus reducing the file size. Compression is generally thought of as something to do to data after it has been collected, but mathematicians have recently figured out a way to use similar principles to drastically reduce the amount of data that needs to be gathered in the first place

In the wake of Airbnb's home-vandal scandal, start-ups in the collaborative consumption space are rebuilding peer-to-peer buying's reputation. Here's how. Airbnb found itself in a public relations nightmare this summer that threatened to undermine its whole ethos of amiable and unique person-to-person connections

These new tech tools can improve the flow of your business operations, help you attract new customers or develop new loyalty programs, and directly impact your monthly sales. You might notice something different about the sales receipt at Burgerville, a chain of 39 burger shops in the Portland area. Using a technology developed by SmartReceipt (www.receipt.com), the chain shows customized nutrition information about your specific order, news and trivia, and marketing information.

People aren't so gung-ho about smart meters, but they are about electric vehicles. But when they realize that combining the two can lead to huge savings, things might change. With so many promised benefits to the adoption of smart grid solutions, I have been conducting a lot of research lately on why it has taken so long to get the smart grid on track in North America.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe

The average pro football career lasts three and a half seasons.