In the past months, Skype's launched a massive upgrade on Android; a brand-spanking-new iPad app; unveiled a massive partnership with Facebook; and announced its acquisition to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Is it enough to win against Google's and Apple's competitors? "When I started, we were on a pretty slow product release," says Neil Stevens, VP of products at Skype.
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Feed SubscriptionRedefining Search, One Locale At A Time
While the rest of the industry works to leverage location in order to create content, Fwix finds content that already exists on the web and tags it with location.
Read More »How to Choose an Ad Agency
With thousands of ad firms wanting your business, how can you choose? Experts explain how to set your goals, put it in an RFP, and snag the best creative team. Long gone are the days of a handful of Madison Avenue firms controlling the advertising world.
Read More »Fast Company Is Seeking A Design Intern
Mansueto Ventures is seeking a design intern to work in the online department of Fast Company magazine. This is a paid internship at our New York office
Read More »The 15-Year-Old Creator Of The Trimit App Makes Regular Old Entrepreneurs Seem Like Slackers
Trimit's a recent $0.99 app for the iOS platform that does one simple thing
Read More »Employee Communications Is More Than Just Talk
Do you consider employee communication a high priority? Studies show that companies with highly effective internal communication programs are more likely to provide a significant return to shareholders and are also more likely to have higher levels of employee engagement and lower employee turnover rates
Read More »Want To Keep (And Motivate) Your Best Employees? It’s Not About The Money
Anita* was a model employee. As CEO of my previous tech company, I had hired her to take charge of our bookkeeping and administrative affairs. When Anita came aboard, I asked what she wanted in order to feel fulfilled at work.
Read More »Lego Brand-Hijacks The Space Shuttle, Takes Over The News
From space probes to royal weddings, Lego is inserting itself into all sorts of newsy events--and getting that instant exposure which few others have replicated. On Aug. 5, NASA's Juno spacecraft began its five-year journey to the planet Jupiter
Read More »Once Your Doctor Knows Your Genes, The Sick Become More Than Just A Disease
Cheap genome sequencing will let doctors treat individual patients rather than diseases. That will save lives, because people are often much more complicated than just their symptoms.
Read More »Muslim-Majority Nations Stifling Online Expression: Report
A new OpenNet Initiative study has found that internet censorship is prevalent in Muslim-majority countries...
Read More »The Best Social CRM Programs
New Social CRM software is being developed everyday.
Read More »Box Launches Android, RIM Playbook Apps, Continues Quest For Cloud Domination
Aaron Levie, No. 59 on our list of the Most Creative People in Business, has a simple vision : Users should be able to share and access their content from anywhere, on any device. But as simple as that notion sounds, the execution is far from effortless for Levie, the co-founder and CEO of cloud-storage startup Box (formerly Box.net)
Read More »Non-Organic Chicken Is Creating Drug-Resistant Diseases
Even if you don't care about the environment or animal welfare, you should care about this: The antibiotics conventional farms pump into their birds results in deadly bacteria that doesn't respond to normal treatment. Forget whether it tastes better or is nicer to the bird. Non-organic chickens are a public health issue.
Read More »Senegalese Village Wipes Out Malaria With Mosquito Nets And Fines For Not Using Them
In Thienaba, Senegal, David Arquette discovers that preventing malaria doesn't always require high-tech solutions.
Read More »The First Bank of Blizzard: Are Virtual Currencies The Next Safe Havens?
Now that a major online role-playing company has effectively created a functioning market for in-game currencies, gold farming is going to become a viable part of the global economy.
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