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The Golden Arches recently announced that it's Happy Meals will be getting a little healthier. Their nutrition expert explains the rationale and how they fast food chain is hoping a little bit of healthy eating can be the start of a larger change.

Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for more customers, and there are a lot of potential customers on the Internet, right? But what online strategy is going to help you to gain the customers you need in a cost-effective manner?

You may not be shocked to learn that a lot of rumored Apple news is bubbling up around on the Web--here's our round-up of the most interesting bits.

Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water--enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over.

The future of U.S. medical-device design may reside in developing countries. In India, where a chaotic road system spawns many accidents and hospitals are often hours away, the need for an inexpensive alternative vascular access is great.

We continue our examination of the business book Blue Ocean Strategy with an interview of authors W. Chan Kim And Renée Mauborgne. We explore their motivation for writing the book, and why more companies are using their strategies

If you’ve cheaped out on your office technology, a new study claims you’ll pay the price. Yes, the study is from Hewlett Packard, but still the results are eye-opening: Nearly every small business surveyed (93 percent) admitted they tried to save money instead of buying what they really wanted.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

In places where there is no grid, houses can be dark.

Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless for decades to come.

You may be familiar with SAS 70: an audit standard used for businesses that provide a service relating to their clients’ finances. If you feel like you just figured out SAS 70 audits, I’m sorry to say that from now on, you will be undergoing Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 (SSAE 16) assessments instead.

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession.

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession. Yang gave up a law career almost immediately after he started, realizing the mega-firm life was "a less than ideal use of a lot of smart people's time." He founded Stargiving.com, a celebrity affiliated philanthropic fundraising site in 2000, right at the end of the dot.com bubble

The chief executive of Plexi-Craft, which manufactures custom acrylic furniture, discusses important leadership traits like optimism, organization, and focus.

A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry? Borrowing code is standard operating procedure for those who work with software.