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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Getty Images Licenses Instagram-shot Yankees Series . Smartphone photo app Instagram has got the Getty Images seal of approval
Read More »Blow Dry Wars Heat Up
Drybar closes a $16 million investment to help with expansion while its biggest competitor marches into its territory.
Read More »Generation Flux: Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmore is the CEO of Mashable. At 19, he founded the tech blog in Scotland, which has grown into a monster site for social news
Read More »The Business of a Hockey Game
Here's a look at the companies that provide the scoreboards, displays, shielding, and safety nets that make it possible for the Philadelphia Flyers to entertain fans at a hometown game. Shielding and safety nets On this night, 19,593 fans packed the Wells Fargo Center. To help keep them safe from pucks and other projectiles, the rink is surrounded by 522 linear feet of acrylic shielding made by Sport Systems Unlimited/Athletica, which has facilities in Minneapolis and Waterloo, Ontario
Read More »Holland America plans vampire-themed cruise
A vampire-themed cruise will set sail from Vancouver, B.C., for Alaska on board Holland America’s Zuiderdam ship early next summer
Read More »The Top Five Transit Technologies For The Low-Carbon Economy
People need to move around, but we can do it in a less impactful way with these five innovations. Some are new and some are old, but together they could remake transportation.
Read More »Green Sports Alliance: Go Green Or Go Home
Sports teams finally find something to agree on. .title {text-transform:uppercase;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;} .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;margin-bottom:15px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Annie Marie Musselman Sports in America will always be an indulgent birthright. You don't go to the ball game to worry about whether the world will melt
Read More »After London Riots, Social Media Plays Janitor, Cop
Rioters chose RIM. But Twitter and Facebook's new mob mostly carry brooms. "It's Like Hogwarts," says an observer
Read More »Sneak Peek: Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts reopened its historic Rosewood Hotel Georgia in downtown Vancouver on July 15 after a large-scale restoration. The 90-year-old property has 155 rooms and suites, including two penthouse suites with private rooftop terraces, outdoor hot tubs, and indoor and outdoor fireplaces, starting from just under $300 per ...
Read More »O’Hair wins Canadian Open on 1st playoff hole
Sean O'Hair won the RBC Canadian Open after tapping in for bogey on the first playoff hole on Sunday, and then watching fellow American Kris Blanks lip out his bogey putt from just over 5 feet.
Read More »Daly has shot at first PGA win in 7 years
Over the last few years of a tumultuous career John Daly has been spotted in the tabloids, addiction centers and the PGA Tour's doghouse but Saturday at the Canadian Open you could find him somewhere he had not been for a while -- in contention.
Read More »Van Pelt leads Canadian Open; Daly in hunt
Bo Van Pelt birdied four of his last five holes, including the final two, to finish with 65 on Saturday and a one stroke lead after three rounds at the RBC Canadian Open.
Read More »Thompson, Campbell tied for Canadian Open lead
On a day when the course conditions favored experienced players with major championship success, PGA Tour rookie Michael Thompson had to learn on the fly.
Read More »Blanks shoots 67 to take lead at Canadian Open
Kris Blanks has been to Vancouver before, usually just to visit his wife's family, and never with his golf clubs.
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