The iPad starts at $499. While most every device maker has mimicked Apple's price point, none have been able to mimic Apple's sales. At last count, Apple had sold 28.7 million iPads, making the iPad the clear industry leader.
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Feed SubscriptionThe Right Way To Size Up The Competition For Your Product Or Business
One of the first questions people ask about a new idea or venture is: Who is the competition? Who else is doing this? The worst rookie mistake in the world is to answer: No one
Read More »5 Steps to Launching a Start-up
Preparing to launch your start-up means more than simply making sure you have a viable product and potential customers. Here are five tips on how to prepare yourself to be a founder. John Bradberry was fascinated by the idea of how someone may prepare to start a company.
Read More »Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook: Words Of Wisdom
Steve Jobs, visionary genius. Tim Cook, stalwart stationkeeper
Read More »Editor’s Letter: A Salute to the Builders of Great Companies
Heres to the people who create jobs, and to the people who fill them.
Read More »Soaps 2.0: MTV’s New WatchWith App Enables Your "Jersey Shore" Addiction On A Second Screen
Today, MTV launched the WatchWith iPhone app, a service designed to drive network engagement through social sharing, photos and video, rewards, blog posts, and more. It's part of an aggressive push by the network to capture the " second screen experience ," an industry term used to describe the smartphones and tablets people turn to alongside TV. Distractions from our precious television shows used to be few and far between: the occasional power outage, a knock at the front door or a ring of the downstair's telephone, a parent demanding the plug pulled lest our brains turn to mush
Read More »What A Detroit Supper Club Teaches Us About Co-Creativity
A social movement is underway in downtown Detroit.
Read More »New Business Opportunity: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
A new therapy that has caught my attention is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT). When I read the different illnesses it cures, it seems too good to be true. Entrepreneurs are always looking for the next big thing
Read More »Brains And Bots Deep Inside Yahoo’s CORE Grab A Billion Clicks
A sophisticated personalization algorithm--combined with ever-savvier editors--has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo's home page to the tune of a 270% increase in clicks since 2009.
Read More »@Osamainhell Tells Us How to Run a Fake Twitter Feed
In an exclusive interview with the man behind the popular fake Twitter feed @osamainhell, Fast Company finds out what it takes to do 24/7 Twitter satire, along with some tips for aspiring comedians. Twitter is chock full of humorous fake feeds with massive cult followings. The microblogging service's 140-character message limit has turned out to be the perfect forum for one-line zingers, as the individuals behind @fakeapstylebook , @bpglobalpr and @mayoremanuel all discovered for themselves
Read More »Kids’ Self-Control Is Crucial for Their Future Success
Self-control--the ability to regulate our attention, emotions and behaviors--emerges in childhood and grows throughout life, but the skill varies widely among individuals. Past studies have reported that self-control is partially inherited and partially learned and that those with less self-control are more likely to be unemployed, en
Read More »Kids Don’t Read The Bible Any More
Lady Gaga Comes Out! Gwyneth Goes Topless! (Fwd: Photos.) Why do we fall for these and other trick headlines and email subjects over and over again? Click and read through this story for the answers you've been looking for! Made you look! You're not alone.
Read More »How to Create an Investor Presentation
There is no right, wrong or definitive way to get the attention of investors.
Read More »Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World
Ankur Jain is the founder of the Kairos Society, a network of college entrepreneurs dedicated to changing the world through business. And socializing. Which is, in fact, business
Read More »Selling to Big-Box Retailers
Do you ever wonder how all those products end up on the shelves of your favorite retailer? Here are some case studies of small businesses who cracked the code.
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