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Six months after the first New York City Demo Day, the inaugural TechStars class officially graduated in the TechStars TV season finale last night, which recapped a series filled with successes, failures, and a even a break-up. One-hundred days: that's how long they had to build a viable company

If you're like anyone else, you have no idea how much you pay for electricity. A new app will let you use your phone to see when it's the cheapest, and pick that moment to charge your car.

Frank Campanaro, CEO of Trillacorpe Construction, steered his company through a 15-month investigation that almost put it out of business.

Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam.

By tracking every step of the food production process, the next time people start getting sick from cantaloupes, it will be much easier to find which farms are clean, and which are responsible. Food contamination has been in the news recently, and for good reason; at this moment, people in the U.S. are still getting sick from cantaloupe tainted with listeria.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple Posts Quarterly Revenue of $28.27 Billion . Riding record Mac and iPad sales, Apple reported $6.62 billion of net quarterly profit, up from $4.31 billion the same quarter last year.

Replacing the oil that we use to make our car parts is just as important as replacing the oil we use to power our cars. Our vehicles are made from, and run on, petroleum.

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic

We know what's happened to Apple recently: The company has released a carefully updated edition of many of its core products, over the course of the last eight months (starting with the iPad 2), culminating in the launch of the iPhone 4S. In between the reveal of this phone and it actually going on sale, legendary Apple CEO and cofounder Steve Jobs passed away, finally losing his protracted battle with cancer and its side effects.

Using a combination of signals from all over the road, a new system takes cars a step closer to being able to automatically react to conditions in front of them. It will still be at least a decade before GM's EN-V autonomous pod cars hit the streets, but in the meantime, the automaker is working on a mobile system that uses information from surrounding vehicles and infrastructure to warn drivers about dangerous situations.

A creepy interactive video demonstrates the downside of Facebook using... Facebook. It also demonstrates the potential of socially enabled interactivity.

E-commerce business Shopify is pitting a bunch of bloodthirsty entrepreneurs against each other (all in the spirit of healthy competition, of course) to spur new business growth and development--with the help of three blue-chip entrepreneurs. How do you launch a slew of new companies, enable e-commerce, generate millions in sales, and help thousands of entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others? You might think the answer starts with venture capital, but for online store builder Shopify , the solution is: pit a bunch of bloodthirsty aspiring business owners against each other (all in the spirit of healthy competition, of course).

Cephalopods have the amazing ability to match their backgrounds almost perfectly, and in seconds. Scientists are just now tapping into that power to give man-made objects the same property, creating a new generation of stealth.

When it comes to consumer insights, the rise of the social web has been both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because companies now have an unlimited amount of data about their customers at their fingertips; a curse because they have to figure out a way to sift through all of that data to figure out what’s meaningful and what isn’t.