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TabCo Says Its Tablet Tech Knows What You Want Before You Do

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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Sister Act

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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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