Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style
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Feed SubscriptionObama Facebook Friends Zuck Bunch In Palo Alto, iPhone Tracking Movement, Social Media In College Admissions, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Obama To Host Facebook Town Hall At 1:45 p.m
Read More »Tablet Wars: Intel Joins Game
For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief
Read More »What LeBron James And The Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork
LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.
Read More »How to Narrow Your Target Market
Huge, profitable companies like Walmart and Amazon didn't start as the all-encompassing retailers we know today. Each debuted with a very specific focus that helped them find and nurture a strong customer base.
Read More »Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground.
Do Google And Bing Actually Return Billions Of Search Results?
Search for "New York Times" on Google, and you'll get 126,000,000 results (in about 0.14 seconds). Search the same query on Bing? Prepare for 491,000,000 results.
Read More »The New Kids on the Block
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Tableside Tablet Computing
Imagine a world where you'd never have to flag down a harried waiter. Where you can place your order for a ribeye and Jameson the moment you sit down. Where you can take care of the check as soon as you're ready—and not when said harried waiter gets around to it.
Read More »First Offshore Wind Farm In The U.S. Gets Approval After Decade Of Red Tape
After a decade of dealing with environmental and regulatory red tape, the first offshore wind farm in the U.S.
Read More »James Cameron And Eric Schmidt On Why They "Visioneer" For X Prize
An inside look at X Prize's all-star brainstorming session. The X Prize Foundation has grabbed A-list investors and CNN headlines for their industry-creating multi-million dollar innovation competitions, from commercial space travel to oil-spill cleanup .
Read More »WikiLeaks, Twitter Records Case Heads Back To Court
Associates of WikiLeaks are forging ahead in their battle to prevent the government from accessing information about their use of Twitter. On Friday, the case to bar federal prosecutors from accessing Twitter records related to users associated with WikiLeaks heads back to court. A Magistrate judge heard the users’ motions earlier this year and turned down their request to toss the order out.
Read More »China Beating The U.S. In Electric Vehicle Race (But Maybe Not For Long)
The U.S doesn't have much over China at this point. Sure, we have breathable air, but they have more clean energy funding , the world's fastest-growing economy, and at least for now, a head start on the vehicle electrification race.
Read More »iFive: iPhone 5 in September, Intel’s Record Income, Future ARM Tablet Chips, Windows 8’s Cloud Sync, YouTube Goes WebM
1. It just got about as official as it's likely to get: Agreeing with information obtained by Fast Company from inside Apple , Reuters has just confirmed , from "three people with direct knowledge" of Apple's supply chain, that the new iPhone 5 won't go into mass production until July/August. Meaning it'll ship sometime in September--much later than usual.
Read More »How to Make Your Small Business Seem Bigger
Ramon Ray, journalist and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com , sums it up perfectly: "Small businesses can do BIG things using low-cost technology and readily available expertise." It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.
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