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Congress is on the verge of passing the first patent reforms in 60 years. This may not be good news for small business. A patent reform bill labelled by one Congressman as "patently unfair to inventors" could be in front of the President this month

We interview Douglas Edwards, Google's brand manager from 1999 to 2005, about his new book and discuss the challenge of humanizing information technology, Sergey Brin's anatomically correct cow costume, and how Google+ might succeed where orkut, Google's first social network, failed. After spending years as a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News and Marketplace, in the late 1990s, Douglas Edwards became restless

Google+ may hit 10 million users today, and Steve Ballmer admits Windows Phone failings. This and more surprising/important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.

One challenge for many startups is the high cost of legal fees. Rocket Lawyer recently did a study that found 45 percent of businesses have legal issues to resolve in the next three months. From incorporation to contracts, quarterly meetings, and more, there are lots of legal expenses that are required of a startup owner

How far will the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office go?

New York comedian Tom Kelly has discovered an unnerving flaw for Safari users attempting Facebook's new video calling feature: You can’t hang up. “You might think you hung up on the call, but the friend you’re talking to is actually watching you in your bedroom--or wherever you make your call,” Kelly says in the most recent episode of his web series The Tom Kelly Show

The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity. The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn (Alexis Boozer) faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity

As we process applications for this year's Inc.

No longer a spokesman, Powers is now the MFCEO. Multi-league lockout threats. Sex scandals involving Perkins waitresses

Researchers at MIT have figured out how to grow "humanized" livers inside of mice--so the little critters could soon accurately predict how our livers will respond to drugs. Mice are a boon to biomedical research; they can often predict how humans will react to certain conditions, and not too many people get upset if they die from an overdose of toxic chemicals. But mice aren't as useful in pharmaceutical research because their livers react to drugs differently than human livers

This week kids' favorite SpongeBob SquarePants will be the center of a new story on a wholly new medium: Twitter . The Ice Race Cometh--A Twitter Tale is an original story, from the official SpongeBob writing team, and will consist of multiple tweets and images broadcast throughout each day from July 12th to July 15th

According to one set of analytics, the Google+ social network has resulted in such rapid adoption of a "+1" button on websites that it's outclassed sharing stalwart Twitter already. Here's why that matters--only a little

While increasing the prices of bad foods makes kids skinnier, a more effective solution might be finding ways to decrease the prices of foods that are good for you. That Americans don't eat as healthy as they could isn't a surprising fact. But it turns out that tiny economic shifts can make that problem worse, or make it better

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B Lab--a nonprofit that certifies sustainable businesses--is riding a wave of interest in social responsibility for corporations. Now it has plans to expand even wider as states around the country begin to give tax breaks to its companies