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Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the death of daily deals (and their resurrection ) in the last few weeks.

Quadrocopters Landing On Quadrocopters ... And So On Ad-Infinitum We know quadrocopters are maneuverable in extremis, and we know that they can move in ever-smarter aerial ballets with other units, flying in unison...but the team at UPenn's GRASP Lab has pulled off something rather amazing: They've designed a way for a smaller quadrocopter to land on a bigger one--which will act as a flying landing pad of sorts.

Merisant CEO Paul Block says rather than leave innovation and inspiration to a whim, structure your company and empower employees to think toward the future. The assumption that inspiration only requires people in a room and a conversation is completely false. To channel inspiration and bring innovation to a company, you need a logical structure and organization.

John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might think he doesn't have to fret about success any longer. But according to Vechey, it's not success that CEOs need to be concerned about, but how they will deal with that success once it comes their way. Vechey, always humble, shared with our Inc.

Good logos are like good friends: "When they show up wearing a mustache, with no explanation, you just go, 'Huh?'" says Michael Cronan, creative director at branding firm Cronan. But, of course, most logo changes are done for a reason. Cronan and partner Karin Hibma evaluate three recent ones

In remote areas where clean water is scarce, Sarvajal's water-dispensing ATMs provide a cheap solution.

Post-financial meltdown, business schools are trying to make their graduates more responsible. But does taking one class on ethics work, or does a new ethical model need to permeate the curriculum? Many industry watchers saw business schools as contributing factors in the financial crisis, arguing that, by failing to challenge orthodoxies, and overlooking “ socially useless ” activities, they helped create conditions for collapse

For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up

High-profile entrepreneurs John Vechey and Ted Leonsis get real about what happens after your company is successful. The second half of the morning at Inc. 500|5000 conference, which featured hugely successful PopCap founder John Vechey and serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis , took a different tone from the energetic coffee-fueled morning sessions

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apotheker Replaced By Whitman At HP . Late yesterday, HP's board took a controversial decision and ousted its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months in the role

Is your independent contractor really an employee?

Are you a wuss? Author Patrick Lencioni talks about why a leader who promotes conflict will have a healthy organization

Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of Gilt, offers his advice on hiring new employees (and getting rid of them, too). What's the best way to find talent

Users can now get music, movies, and more right from their new Timeline-enabled profile pages.

Why is the economy so dismal? The Federal Reserve warned in September 2011 that the U.S. economy is facing "significant downside risks" as stocks and commodity prices are falling around the world