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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sells 6.5 Million Copies In First 24 Hours, Breaks Record. For the third straight year, Activision's Call of Duty video game franchise has broken entertainment industry sales records.

Believe it or not, there is a right (and very wrong) way of getting sales referrals. Check out these tricks to sales success.

[youtube Wr9mtir5648] RIM has a PR problem: A couple of videos, filmed and rendered in the emerging-as-classic "what the future will be like"-style overlayed with electro-orchestral music, have leaked online. They're called Future Visions, and RIM's already issued a couple of copyright requests to YouTube to have some versions taken down.

[youtube Wr9mtir5648] RIM has a PR problem: A couple of videos, filmed and rendered in the emerging-as-classic "what the future will be like"-style overlayed with electro-orchestral music, have leaked online. They're called Future Visions, and RIM's already issued a couple of copyright requests to YouTube to have some versions taken down.

Their work cut out for them, small businesses turn to customer service and experiences to differentiate this holiday shopping season. Holiday retail projections are upbeat, but what's a small business to do with competition from deep-discounting big-box stores and consumers who are focused on seizing deals? The National Retail Federation expects retail sales to increase 2.8 percent this year.

These new tech tools can improve the flow of your business operations, help you attract new customers or develop new loyalty programs, and directly impact your monthly sales. You might notice something different about the sales receipt at Burgerville, a chain of 39 burger shops in the Portland area. Using a technology developed by SmartReceipt (www.receipt.com), the chain shows customized nutrition information about your specific order, news and trivia, and marketing information.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. This colorful Doodle is Google's tribute to late Disney artist Mary Blair

In places around the world where the grid hasn't been extended, they're still figuring out ways to power their gadgets. We could learn a thing or two. Globally, there are 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers--but according to Green Power For Mobile by The GSMA Development Fund, nearly 500 million people worldwide do not have a means of charging a mobile phone at home.

During the height of the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette gave her most precious perfume flask—a floral blend known as Black Jade—to her close friend, Madame de Tourzel, as a testimony of her friendship before they were violently separated. Though the original flask remains safeguarded as a talisman in the ...

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Report Record iPhone 4S Sales

In five years, Black Death wiped out an estimated 30 to 50 percent of Europe's population. This medieval plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , which still circulates among humans .

Aaron Levie , the 26-year-old founder of enterprise cloud startup Box.net, always has something to say.

As brainstorming has become customary, has it also lost its sparkle, and value, for your company? Here's where you may have gone wrong, and what to avoid in the future

Taking a rare peek into what really goes into creating the fresh, local ingredients your waiter rattles off when explaining that day's specials. This summer Dan Kluger, chef at ABC Kitchen (this year's James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best New Restaurant), accompanied several food writers on a road trip to New York's Hudson Valley to tour some of the farms (and one distillery!) that supply Manhattan's hottest restaurants, including his own.

Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t. The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying the company’s achievements in recent years--skyrocketing sales of media and a heritage of innovative, beloved gadgets. Then he brandished the new wonder, showing its surprising features and teasing with questions along the lines of "what should we charge for it?" before naming an equally surprising low price.