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Feed SubscriptionHere Comes A Regular: GetPerka.com Offers Digital Replacements For Paper Punchcards
Is this the end of tattered, gummy, loyalty cards stuffing wallets to the brim? Perka Inc
Read More »The Mainstreaming Of Fair Trade
If you didn't know what Fair Trade was five years ago, you certainly do now. As the label becomes ubiquitous, CEO Paul Rice is taking the standard into new industries and to new heights.
Read More »Will GenY Entrepreneurship Be a Disaster?
How could anyone think that GenY's love of entrepreneurship is a bad thing? You'd be surprised
Read More »Why I Continue to Serve
After losing a limb in leading a platoon through an ambush in Iraq, Halfaker transformed her life of service in the military into a life of service through entrepreneurship.
Read More »The Demographics Of Occupy Wall Street
Students are a big contingent at Zucotti Park and other occupations.
Read More »Richard Branson On The Environmental Impact Of Space Travel
Branson thinks that by being in space, people become more passionate about the planet. And he's planning on helping out cash-strapped NASA with its research, too. Earlier this week, Virgin Galactic --the space travel arm of the Virgin Group--debuted the first-ever spaceport in New Mexico
Read More »Cat Stroking, Not Facebook Poking, Satisfies Needs For Real Interaction
Forget poking on Facebook or IMing people, shaking a hand or putting an arm on someone else's shoulder is where social interaction really begins. In Japan, this need for touch has extended to a focus on pets, including cafes for petting cats
Read More »Make Your Site More Fun
He is the founder and CEO of TwoChop, a content gamification platform that takes content and turns it into games. Advertisement: Grainger has lighting products covered.
Read More »Mo Lam, Founder and CEO of TwoChop
He is the founder and CEO of TwoChop, a content gamification platform that takes content and turns it into games.
Read More »Infographic: People Are Starving, But There Is Enough Food To Go Around
One in seven people in the world is malnourished. But the solution isn't producing more food
Read More »Why Censoring Climate Science Doesn’t Make Sense
Rick Perry's administration has forced a report on the effects of climate change on Texas to remove all references to, well, climate change. But that doesn't change what's happening to the state's climate. Scientists associated with a major study of environmental changes in the low-lying coastal region around Galveston, Texas, have withdrawn their names from the final report after high-level officials appointed by Governor Rick Perry removed references to sea level rise and climate change from the document.
Read More »Dropbox Raises $250 Million
Online storage start-up Dropbox raised $250 million for its expansion, one of the largest fundraising rounds in Silicon Valley this year. Online storage start-up Dropbox announced it has raised $250 million for its expansion, one of the largest fundraising rounds in Silicon Valley this year. The investment values the company at $4 billion.
Read More »Two Laptops And A Mobile Phone: Startup Music From SoundCloud’s Alex Ljung
SoundCloud started in a cafe on a couple of laptops. A few years later, 29-year-old Alex Ljung and his cofounder, Eric Wahlforss, are squeezing 50 employees into an office to oversee a sound-sharing platform used in over a hundred mobile apps
Read More »PlayStation Vita Launch Date Announced, Google And Samsung Unveil Galaxy Nexus, RIM Shows Off BBX, Google To Encrypt Search
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. PlayStation Vita Launching February 22, 2012 .
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