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The first Urbee rolled off the printing press a few days ago. Fast Company has an exclusive look at the sexy 200 mpg super-light hybrid. Last year, Stratasys and Kor Ecologic teamed up to develop the first 3-D printed car--a vehicle that has its entire body 3-D printed layer by layer until a finished product emerges

Kate Kelly launched Minnesota Bank & Trust amidst the 2008 market crisis. She says shes ready to take it through another. “Here we go again,” Kate Kelly, chief of three-year-old Minnesota Bank & Trust, thought as she saw the market plummeting in early August.

John Vechey, a college dropout, turned his passion for video games into a company called PopCap, which was sold this summer for about $750 million. But for Vechey, the process of selling was hardly just fun and games. Fourteen years ago, John Vechey dropped out of college to build a video game—but ended up building a video game empire.

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A new study says the daily deals field is glutted with copycats, and it’s up to Groupon and LivingSocial to prove the model works. Success breeds nothing if not copycats, and few industries have seen more imitators in the last 12 months than the daily deals space

Think those cat videos are addictive? Just wait ‘til your girlfriends start sending you videos of the latest collections from your favorite designers

People need to move around, but we can do it in a less impactful way with these five innovations. Some are new and some are old, but together they could remake transportation.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. [youtube DsaJMhcLm_A] Google Launches Google Wallet . Google is letting out the first public version of its smartphone-based payment system, five months after its

Facial recognition, eavesdropping apps, augmented reality...these aren't security protocols but new ways for you to be able to market your business. Marketing isn’t what it used to be.

From Paris to New York, Tokyo to San Francisco, developers from around the world turned out for Foursquare's global hackathon this past weekend. The aim? Like any good hackathon, to seed innovations in a round-the-clock binge of hacking and 5-Hour Energy

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical?