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Feed SubscriptionThe $720 House That’s Built In A Week And Lasts Two Decades
India's Tata Group--known as the maker of the world's cheapest car--is setting its sights on the world's cheapest home, with a $720 flatpack house that can be constructed in a week. The world's cheapest car is manufactured by the Tata Group. So is the cheapest water filter
Read More »Apple News Roundup: Apple’s Earnings Call, OS X Lion Imminent, New Macs And Mac Sales, Google’s Schmidt Lashes Out
Today's Earnings Call Later today Apple will reveal its most recent quarterly finances, and the industry is aquiver with anticipation. Speculation on the stock markets has seen Apple's price soar over recent days. It's all with the expectation that having finally solved its iPad 2 supply chain issues, and boosted by iPhone sales on Verizon as well as improving Mac sales, Apple may post highly promising revenues.
Read More »Benefits of NAS and How to Set One Up
Network attached storage devices are gaining popularity as a way of sharing files among multiple computers.
Read More »Vodo Is Netflix-Meets-Kickstarter for Indie Film Fans
With 500,000 downloads in less than a month, a neo-noir thriller by newcomer Justin Eugene Evans shoots down the standard distribution model in favor of video-sharing site VODO. For director Justin Eugene Evans, making the movie was the easy part.
Read More »07.19.2011 | Inc.com Daily
Lights that transmit data, Borders closes, prizes for small businesses, and more. First Wi-Fi, now Li-Fi?
Read More »Humanity’s Biggest Impact May Be The Exctinction Of Predators
The death of large predators isn't just a tragedy, it can lead to the utter destruction of whole ecosystems--something that is already happening in many parts of the world. You may not have noticed, but we are in the early to middle stages of the Earth's sixth large extinction event. Compared to the
Read More »Atlantis Heads Home, CNN Goes iPad, Borders Closes, Apple IP Win Boosts Windows Phones, Baidu Music Deal, LulzSec Hacks Murdoch
This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Space Shuttle Atlantis Coming Home For Ever . At 4:18 this morning EDT , the Space Shuttle Atlantis fired its maneuvering rockets to take it away from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth for one final time, closing the Shuttle era
Read More »Borders Shutting Down Remaining Stores
It's time to start writing epitaphs.
Read More »Learning From Their Mistakes
WAKA Kickball co-founder Johnny LeHane talks about building longer term relationships with his customers--and learning to ask for help.
Read More »Take the Pain Out of Writing a Business Plan
Break a business plan into bite-sized pieces, to focus on what matters most right now. The first of a three-part series
Read More »5 Ways to Plan for Chaos
Handling rush jobs is a snap for Mimeo and AffordableButtons.com.
Read More »11 Leaders to Watch in 2011
Which leaders should you have your eye on this year? Sheryl Sandberg, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Landrieu are just a few.
Read More »American Express Friends Facebook, Checks In With Foursquare: Does Your Social Graph Have Good Credit?
Creating a social network is so last week. Today, American Express is unveiling a social media platform
Read More »How To Hold A Press Conference Via Google+
A Tibetan advocacy group recently held the world's first video press conference via Google+ Hangouts. While the goal might have been to get attention from techies and journalists, it also gave us a glimpse into the future of video conferencing. A Tibetan advocacy group held what appeared to be the world's first Google+ -powered video press conference this past Friday.
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