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Breaking news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon's Android Tablet Revealed . Moments before an official press event, Amazon executives revealed details about the company's long-expected tablet PC: It's called Kindle Fire, as rumored, and is a 7-inch color LCD machine that lacks 3G, a camera, and a microphone, but comes with Wi-Fi like its older Kindle e-reader cousins

Founder and "TeaEO" of Honest Tea, Seth Goldman discuss how he started the socially responsible beverage company as well as the decisions behind the teas that have been successful.

A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.

Terrorist organizations are notorious videographers--particularly when it comes to uploading clips to the web to spread messages or recruit sympathizers. Now private company IntelCenter has assembled one of the world's largest collections of streaming terrorist videos for viewing on demand. Terrorist organizations love making videos and uploading them to the Internet.

You may not see it in your home, but chances are that lithium plays a large part in your life--the stuff is found in laptop batteries, pharmaceuticals, and electric car batteries, and it is considered to be an "energy critical element" by the American Physical Society. There's just one problem: While the U.S.

So says a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "If we’re looking for an answer to jobs," Kauffman vice president Lesa Mitchell tells us, "it’s right in front of our face." The country is in a recession, and Washington is tangling over how to create new jobs , but, according to a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there’s a fairly simple potential source of them sitting right under our noses.

These days it’s impossible to get anything significant--a phone, car, or house--without having your credit score checked first. And the penalty for having a low score--or worse still, no score--is higher than you might think. According to the non-profit Credit Builders Alliance , individuals with poor numbers can pay $250,000 in extra interest over their lifetime

Amazon's Kindle Fire has its hardware and software shaved down to a bare minimum and woven together in a delicate mesh.

Can social media drive social change? 25-year-old Tammy Tibbetts is trying to figure that out through She's The First, a non-profit dedicated to helping girls around the world to become the first in their family to graduate

To break out of the mismanaged systems in which we find ourselves, we could turn to robots, whose cold logic would override our selfish needs. Or we could turn to social entrepreneurs, who work outside the system to find new solutions. A few years ago in the wake of the failure of governments to sign an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in Copenhagen, we fell into a discussion on fixing the system: Let’s get computers to do it for us.

If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.

Obesity is undoubtedly a major problem in the U.S, but it's nearly impossible to stop in the nation's food deserts, which lack access to affordable, healthy food. The California Freshworks Fund announced recently that it is giving $200 million to food vendors (everything from grocery stores to food trucks) in the state's food deserts, but Indiana already has a potential solution on the ground in the form of Garden on the Go , a truck filled with local and regional fruits and vegetables that stops throughout the week in an area that lacks easy access to healthful food. The truck, created through a partnership between Indiana University Health and Green B.E.A.N.

Small businesses are pessimistic because of lack of demand for their products and expected increases in health care costs. Thanks to growing economic uncertainty, small-business confidence has fallen to a two-year low, according to new research

As I’ve mentioned before , I’m a fan of nuclear energy. I was able to get an inside look at the current state of the nuclear industry from a friend at Qualitech Solutions named Chris Sewell

Brandon Gillis and Josh Sharkey definitely have high-end chef cred: Gillis graduated from the French Culinary Institute and has worked at New York City's Tabla and Franny's; Sharkey graduated from Johnson and Wales University and has worked at New York City's Oceana, Jean Georges, Tabla, Bouley, and Caf