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One man's waste can quite literally be another's gold. Biogas is a clean, odorless, and life-changing source of energy that saves women from spending all day looking for firewood, and thus saves the forests that are home to tigers. Dirt gets a bad rap.

What happens when parent-travel website FamiliesGo! goes live. I have officially launched FamiliesGo! We decided we would open the site to the public on a Friday, so we’d have the weekend to let Google AdSense, the advertising placement service we’re using, come online and “acclimate” its ads to our content before publicizing on Monday

Rumia Ambrose-Burbank, president of Vendor Managed Solutions, which buys maintenance supplies for other companies, recalls how she spun her firm off from what was then Electronic Data Systems, where she once worked in finance.

When a sustainability consulting firm told Swedish burger chain Max Burgers that its main problem was selling beef, the company actually started trying to sell less of its main product. Okay, you're a burger chain.

The ad analytics company is about to release a new service that will tell advertisers who’s seeing their ads--anywhere on the Internet.

Using three N8s and a lot of sand, Sumo Science and Aardman land a Guinness Record for largest stop motion set, and a great looking spot.

In just nine months, the photo sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per seond).

Fast Company Magazine is seeking an intern to assist with office projects related to the visual side of the magazine and photo research. Duties also include routing photography materials, learning the insides of magazine production and conducting photo research on future story assignments

As compared to rural dwellers, urbanites are more stressed and more likely to develop schizophrenia.

In a new age of advertising, why do we rely on metrics born of an era before Facebook and Twitter? Crowdtap wants to introduce a new metric, "Brand Influence." Crowdtap , a company that helps brands engage audiences, thinks it has found a better way to measure the success of ad campaigns. Today, the company is issuing a report announcing a new metric, “Brand Influence,” that it claims offers a more accurate measure of a campaign’s success than traditional metrics born before the advent of social media.

iPhone Launch Dates Until recently, we'd been thinking the iPhone 5 would arrive in the August-September timeframe, with the date firming up around the mid-September period.

She is the founder and CEO of Wildfire, a web application that allows companies to integrate interactive campaigns into social media.

Over the past few weeks, Facebook users saw a spectacular deal advertised by gadget site Dealzon.com: an iPad 2, for only $11.37.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. China's Got A Self-Driving Car Too . China's been quietly developing its own near-production-grade fully autonomous car--something akin to Google's amazing effort --for some time, and just the other day they gave it a fully fledged test.