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Only 14 percent of Inc. 500 companies are venture backed, which makes you wonder: Is it worth it to take on venture funding? Tonight was movie night at the Inc

Dawn Halfaker, founder of Halfaker and Associates, took the stage at the Inc. 500|5000 Joining Forces Military Entrepreneurs Mentoring Fair at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C

At today's Facebook F8 developer conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined Mark Zuckerberg on stage for a surprise announcement: Netflix will finally be integrating social sharing with Facebook. That is, if a bill that sitting in Congress is ever able to pass on the House floor.

Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains.

Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack

In places where power is scarce and refrigerators are scarcer, scientists have found ways to power the ice box with the heat of the sun. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But despite its intense heat, it's being used to do something paradoxical: provide refrigeration (apologies to They Might Be Giants).

Kepler project scientists join forces with a crowdsourcing research website and quickly bag two new exoplanets. First proteins, now planets. Regular people with regular jobs are getting a chance to chip away at scientific puzzles and contribute to discoveries, in what's turning out to be a big help for scientists, and an intriguing distraction for science geeks outside of academia.

In an extended interview, astronaut Ron Garan speaks with Fast Company about his nerve-wracking return to earth, what technology startups should develop for space travel, and life on the International Space Station. "We really need to start not just exploring space," Garan says, "but utilizing space." NASA astronaut Ron Garan has an amazing story to tell.

Climate Wizard lets you see the various climate predictions for where you live. They're not pretty. If you're curious about what 16 reputable climate models say about the future of your corner of the planet, check out the Climate Wizard , a site that lets you use model simulations individually or as an "'ensemble average" to show how future temperatures and precipitation may change around the world as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase

Go big or go home? Forget that. These strategies for increasing your brand influence take hardly any time, and very little money.

How biofuels and speculation are driving food prices to scary new heights. Why have global food prices spiked not once, but twice in the last three years, raising the specter of famine and triggering worldwide food riots-- including the Arab Spring? Many explanations have been floated, including climate change-related droughts in Australia, volatile oil prices, “food security” export restrictions, and last but not least, feeding China’s strategic pork reserve

Putting the power of online video into the hands of teachers.

A new website and mobile app looks at your purchases and determines the amount of forced labor that's gone into everything you own. The number may surprise you.

Google was in Washington Wednesday for a less voluntary reason , but Thursday night, the search giant happily enters the political arena to co-host the "Fox News-Google" GOP debate at 9 p.m. EST.

The snack giant is investing in a program to help Ethiopian farmers develop a chickpea crop. But it's not altruism: Pepsi wants access to a lot of chickpeas, because that's what they want to sell us.