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Why you should prioritize talent and ethics above everything--and everyone--else. Any business owner thinking of bringing her children into the business must watch the unfolding Murdoch epic with fear and loathing. This week, James Murdoch is being grilled by the Leveson inquiry which was set up to investigate the British media in light of the phone hacking scandal that has rocked British journalism, led to several arrests, and the resignation of James Murdoch from his United Kingdom board and executive roles

You may think you're getting more accomplished by working longer hours. You're probably wrong

What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus?

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.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. EU Introducing Cookie Regulations . New European Union regulations will require customers to explicitly opt-in to receive cookies from websites

Billy Joel’s schmaltzy ballad “Honesty” spoke the truth back in 1979. Yet at the time, the accepted strategy for building a brand was creating perceptions that were often far removed from reality

Forget getting your employees to think "outside of the box." Instead, use these four ways of challenging your team.

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Siri still struggles with accents. When, and how, will it get better? There are many indignities involved with having an accent.

The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?

Online dating scams may have hit more than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom and go largely unreported, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Whipped by winds exceeding 90 mph and battered by 15-foot waves, hundreds of wind turbines produce electricity off the coast of the North Sea and send it onshore to power homes and businesses in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark.

A caesium fountain clock that keeps the United Kingdom's atomic time is now the most accurate long-term timekeeper in the world, according to a new evaluation of the clock that will be published in the October 2011 issue of the international scientific journal Metrologia by a team of physicists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom and Penn State University in the United States. An early posting of the paper on the journal's online site will occur on 26 August 2011.

The droughts in Somalia are creating the latest refugee crisis. At the same time, Western countries are clamping down on asylum claims.

From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems