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In January, when Netflix was riding high, I wrote that it was going to break my heart . While it offers an amazing service, its competitive advantage disappeared by its switching to online video streaming.

A new White House initiative hopes to alleviate the pressure student debt places on recent grads.

Virtual assistants can either be helpful or hurtful depending on how well they are screened by you.

As Washington maneuvers on skilled immigration reform, the United States is loosing its near-monopoly on entrepreneurship by forcing its educated Indian and Chinese immigrants to return home.

Dan Ushman and Zak Boca, co-founders of MidPhase share how they left their first company behind to found SingleHop, a dedicated hosting service.

McDonald's brought back the McRib this week, but once again just for a limited time. Cruel and unusual?

WaterForward transforms the concept of pay-it-forward into a viral philanthropy campaign for clean water projects. "I believe there's an enthusiasm around giving that we would hope to infect the world with," says charity: water founder Scott Harrison, whose breakout nonprofit has raised over $40 million for clean water projects worldwide

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Main Street Hub, a start-up that wants to help you manage your reputation on social media, received $2.6 million in funding.

Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Diane Charles and Ron Qurashi, producers of Lexus's Web Therapy series starring Lisa Kudrow.

What apps do you actually use? Sure I have over 100 apps downloaded on my phone.

Open educational resources--textbooks, curricula, video lectures and more that are released, usually online, under Creative Commons license for free sharing and reuse--have been at the forefront of the movement for higher education innovation. They're a key part of the Obama administration's national education technology plan ; in January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials.

Have you ever wondered what your business idea would be worth if you had an opportunity to present it to the nation for a vote? Apparently, Dell, Microsoft, the American public and MasterCard believe that this small business idea is priceless. Following an eight-week long search that began on August 15th, Dell announced that Shwood Handcrafted Wooden Eyewear has been voted as the winner of the “America’s Favorite Small Business” contest sponsored by Dell, MasterCard and Microsoft.

First you had to pay to drive into the city center.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Bluetooth 4.0 Renamed "Smart." The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, responsible for managing the wireless protocol, just sent out a press release stating the new protocol Bluetooth 4.0 has been renamed "Bluetooth Smart." Devices supporting BT4.0 will now sport a special "Smart" logo, or "Smart ready" if they only do a limited version