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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter And Amex Launch Ads For Small Businesses . Twitter is making it easier for small business owners to set up business accounts and promote tweets

As iPads are being seized by authorities in China, you may be wondering how to protect your brand globally. Here's what you need to know. I was recently reading an article concerning Apple’s ongoing battle over the sale of its iPad tablet computers in China.

When a marketing initiative fell through, my husband and I were left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory. Here's how we turned things around.

Accelerating subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and then crashing them together reveals much about the nature of the matter.

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

How do you know if your company will fail? While no one has a crystal ball, there are traps that snare entrepreneurs again and again

Meet Jean Paul Cauvin, a French fashion veteran and self-proclaimed non-geek who nonetheless saw the need to follow fashion's technological future.

Scientists have recently found humanity's nitrogen footprint on watersheds once thought to be isolated and pristine, indicating our impact on the world is more widespread than previously imagined. [More]

Throwing a few blocks can help you shine more than carrying the ball. We all love overnight celebrity stories about breakout stars who suddenly catapult to the forefront of a scene and completely own it out of sheer talent and brilliance. Sure, it's inspiring and romantic, but not always the case

When Apple first released its Messages overhaul for the way iPhones handle test messages, and enabled it on iPads too, it was a sign that the company could see ways to innovate the pretty-much stagnant instant messaging market. It also let users of its iCloud service send short messages to each other without necessarily having to pay phone networks for the privilege. Now Apple's said it's expanding Messages to the OS X desktop, and that's big news

The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com . I got to wondering about this kind of service, and when I typed “reputation management” into a search engine I was taken aback to see more than 10 million results

Afraid of failing?

A recent study shows that you are four times more likely to find a psychopath in the boardroom than on the street. So what

The environment is already affecting patterns of human migration. On the island of Hatia , along coastal Bangladesh, 22 percent of households have migrated to cities as a coping strategy following tidal surges.