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Feed SubscriptionThe New Rules of Marketing for Start-ups
Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are no longer enough to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of today's promotional media. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation
Read More »In Iceland, The Crowd Takes A Shot At "We The People"
The same country that helped give Bjork her voice hands over its guiding document to everyday citizens. But at its heart, the experiment in social media confuses democracy with transparency, a leading expert in participatory government tells Fast Company
Read More »The Onion’s Digital Director Baratunde Thurston: News Is Absurd
From Jon Stewart's The Daily Show to The Onion to Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, fake news has become as much a part of the national dialogue as the real news it parodies. During the 2008 presidential campaign, for example, then-candidates Barack Obama and John McCain both appeared on Stewart's program, making Comedy Central almost as much of a campaign stop as "Meet The Press." And while Bill O'Reilly might admonish viewers of such programs as "stoned slackers," at least one study has indicated that fans of fake news are also some of the best-informed. Why are Americans more and more turning to fake news
Read More »Visualizing Childrens’ Plans For The City Of The Future In Pop-Up Book Form
Ask a kid what they think the future will look like, and you'll get some strange answers. But if you actually listen, you might get some good ideas
Read More »Google’s Biggest Clean Energy Investment Ever Is Going To Put Solar On Your Rooftop
Google has poured hundreds of millions of bucks into clean power over the last few months. But their newest announcement isn't about utilities, it's about getting solar panels on as many houses as possible. Over the past few months, Google has become something of a clean energy superhero, making several investments, including a $168 million investment in California's Ivanpah solar farm and a $100 million investment in the world's biggest wind farm .
Read More »Facebook’s IPO, Angry Birds Gets "Magic Places," Canvas Raises $3M, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook Prepares $100 Billion IPO (Report) Move over, Royal Wedding and Barack Obama Inauguration: Facebook's eventual IPO will eclipse Internet headlines for ages. COO Sheryl Sandberg has said that an IPO is "inevitable," because “No one is buying us, we’re going public.” The reported price would quadruple Google's $23 billion IPO.
Read More »Apple Rumor Round-Up: New MacBook Airs, The Perilous Future Of MobileMe, And More
New MacBook Airs We've wondered when the MacBook Air was going to get some attention with new CPUs and Thunderbolt, and
Read More »Field Trip: Wimbledon
Monday, June 20 .p { float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:225px; margin-right:25px; margin-top:10px; width:178px; } #wrapper p { line-height:15px !important; font-size:14px !important; } #wrapper { margin-top:-80px; position:relative; } A parade of the ready-to-party elite -- star athletes, Hollywood celebrities, and royalty -- will descend upon Wimbledon for this month's Grand Slam tennis tournament, which attracts half a million visitors each year. Marking its 125th anniversary, the glitzy celebration is sure to be more raucous than ever. We guide you through the hot spots to hit, both on and off the courts
Read More »Google TV Hopes To Click With Social Recommendations
Google TV's about to get a social discovery injection, courtesy of Redux--a website-based content discovery system--that could help transform it into a friendlier, customer-curated place.
Read More »Becoming a Serial Entrepreneur
People who have started multiple businesses understand how to move swiftly and take action. Jake Winebaum weighs in on the art of serial entrepreneurship.
Read More »Peeling Out Sessions: MIT’s Robotic Co-Drivers Can Save Your Skin In Emergencies
Before we get self-driving cars and road-trains, MIT researchers think emergency co-drivers that only take control in dangerous situations are the near-future for robot driving. At least while we still have fallible human drivers driving around like maniacs. MIT's whiz kids have been busying themselves with a tricky problem--how to build a semi-smart car that could take control when the situation ahead of a human driver looks to dangerous to be left to our weak biological instincts
Read More »Gulf Wild Cuts Down On Seafood Fraud By Electronically Tagging Fish
That grouper on your plate may not be grouper at all--unless it has an electronic tag saying otherwise.
Read More »China’s Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments
In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself
Read More »What Makes a Business Magnetic?
A graduate from Harvard’s Law and Business schools, Adrian Slywotzky is a sought after business consultant, speaker, and writer. Below, Adrian describes the qualities that make a business magnetic. Curt: What does magnetism mean in the B2B world
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