With the misty complexity of its thickly shrouded pre-launch PR, TabCo has the tech world intrigued as to what it may actually deliver. A spokesperson offers Fast Company some exclusive new details about the company's most innovative tricks. For a company whose products no one has actually seen or knows much about,
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Sisters Sabina and Lorraine Belkin get on sickeningly well: They live together, have the same friends, even go to the gym together. They also co-own Duo Restaurant & Lounge, New York City eatery. How do they keep their relationship healthy while working together in a notoriously stressful industry
Read More »Groupon’s Revised S-1 Offers Hints At Its Profitable Future
Did the new numbers in Groupon's pre-IPO filing leave you ready to write off the daily deals company? Maybe you should take a second look
Read More »Report: Women Don’t Like Risk
But they'd like to do it with as little risk as possible. A majority of female business owners expect their companies to grow over the next two years, but most don't want to raise prices—and they'd like to avoid risk, says a new report. Four in five women hope to grow their businesses "substantially" or "at least a moderate amount" by 2013, according to a survey of some 700 female business owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.
Read More »Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock
Over the last decade the world of do-gooding has seemingly been taken over by MBAs. Social entrepreneurship, a field encompassing both mission-driven businesses and entrepreneurial nonprofits, professes to bring the efficiency, rigor, and cold, hard metrics of business to the most important causes on the planet.
Read More »Adam Lisagor Is Advertising’s Quietest Pitchman
Adam Lisagor has mastered the art of selling next-gen tech.
Read More »Groupon’s Growing Pains
Two summers ago Groupon had 37 employees. Now it has just under 10,000. There's rapid growth, and then there's Groupon.
Read More »Nintendo Games On iPhones?, HTC Invests In Beats Sound Tech, Intel’s $300M Tablet Tech Gamble
Nintendo Games On iPhones?
Read More »Creating Liquidity in Private Companies
SecondMarket founder Barry Silbert talks about how he started a marketplace for alternative investments not traded on an exchange--and why you should not fear big established companies that are too slow to innovate anyway.
Read More »Making the Most of an Incubator
Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator. Mark Wachen sits in the Manhattan outpost of DreamIt Ventures, the Philadelphia-based start-up incubator.
Read More »Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett Drops You In His Theater With No Directions Home
The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again. Felix Barrett would like to blow that notion to hell, using the unlikely weapon of theater
Read More »Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett Drops You In His Theater With No Directions Home
The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again.
Read More »We’re Hiring: Coordinator Of Digital Advertising Operations
We are looking for someone to join our digital team, as a member of our advertising operations. Title: Assoc. Coordinator of Digital Advertising Operations Department: Digital Advertising Operations Reports To: Manager of Digital Advertising Operations Type: Hourly Office: New York Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Primary purpose of this position is to accurately traffic all Mansueto Ventures sold interactive campaigns with an emphasis on display, text links and video advertising on Inc
Read More »Kill The Myth: Incandescent Bulbs Are Not Banned
Don't like the government telling you to buy a CFL? There's no need to take up arms
Read More »Would You Like Some Solar With That? Ford To Sell Panels Along With The Electric Focus
If you like EVs, you might also like this new array. That's the thought process behind the partnership between the automaker and SunPower, who will be offering a package deal at Ford dealerships. One of the biggest criticisms of electric vehicles is that they don't necessarily reduce emissions
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