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In the future, students will use social networks for more than planning keggers. If Groupon's backers have anything to say about it

In California, Latinos and African-Americans simply are not buying electric cars. It's time for some new marketing. The Prius is an emblem of the environmentally aware upper middle class, and at this point, electric vehicle purchases are mostly limited to early adopters who have the cash to experiment with an entirely new kind of vehicle.

Think the job of a finance clerk seems like a fairly safe one, in terms of potential for injury? Think again.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon Ups Ante Against Netflix . Amazon's doing a deal with NBC that is really aimed at one thing--building a better net video streaming service to rival Netflix

Wimdu offers a glimpse into its plans for giving nearly identical rent-your-room service Airbnb a run for its huge chunk of money. A dozen or so twentysomethings met for an apparent company outing on a recent Thursday evening in 90-plus degree heat at an outdoor spot in New York's East Village called B Bar. It's as much of a home to bridge-and-tunnel crowds as it is to first-year M&A bankers

Google launched a new service on Thursday that can automatically speed up a website's page load times. That's a good thing, as separate studies from Google and Aberdeen Group have shown faster-loading sites boost customer satisfaction and ad revenue.

The new fund is helping supermarkets open in poor neighborhoods, funding farmer's markets in others, and even offering money for innovative food solutions that no one has thought of yet. Walmart recently announced a plan to bring hundreds of stores to fresh-food-starved "food deserts" across the U.S., but the just-announced California FreshWorks Fund has a more localized--though still ambitious--goal: to bring healthy food to underserved communities and to galvanize local economies in the process. We had the chance to talk to NCB Capital Impact, the national community development financial institution that's administering the fund, about who gets the cash and why

Thanks to a new social media-centered marketing campaign, Whole Foods will become the first national retail chain to celebrate Ramadan. Whole Foods has become the first prominent supermarket chain to run a Ramadan marketing campaign--and they're hoping Muslim customers will return the favor as they break fast. Even though Muslims traditionally forego meals during the day, lavish evening Ramadan meals could mean big bucks for the natural foods giant ..

These gorgeous videos show the patterns of drivers in three major cities: where they're going, and where they get stuck. Los Angeles managed to survive Carmageddon , with some help from Ashton Kutcher and traffic updates from Waze , a service that utilizes the GPS-enabled phones of its users to compile traffic maps. A few months ago, Waze made a slick video of a day of L.A.

Can't keep track of where you leave things around the house? Need a little distance from your home life? Check out these gadgets, essential for every home office

Surgically repairing delicate soft tissues like those on the face after an injury or illness is a tricky business. Surgeons can fix bones, joints and other body parts--but lips and cheeks simply aren't as repairable. But they soon may be, if a new material developed by medical researchers becomes commercially available.

As Congress gears up for another budget fight, environmental protections--from endangered species to clean water to pollution rules for power plants--are all on the chopping block. Once the debt ceiling debate is settled, Congress is going to have to re-focus on the budget that almost shut down the government a few months ago

Damian Kulash and director Trish Sie walk us through the making of All Is Not Lost, and OK Go's approach to the music experience. In the course of producing its distinctive videos, OK Go has contended with the unpredictable ( dogs , toast ) and the potentially dangerous ( paint cannons , treadmills )

Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects--one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers--show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems. Fresh research from a couple of different quarters suggests that waste isn't really waste, and that innovators don't need to discover new materials or unknown principles in order to innovate.

It's more like the "multiple device" era. It's amazing to me that there are people who can buy into conspiracy theories like questioning President Obama's "real birthplace," but when it comes to this brave new world of technology that requires us to have multiple devices, no one is suspicious this happened on purpose