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"I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late, and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette.

Kim Kardashian knows how to stay on message, to amplify that message through partners, and to make everything look beautiful. Here are 10 lessons from her communications juggernaut that managers should adopt to make their initiatives succeed

Once relegated to the domain of only large companies, business intelligence software is getting easier to implement by small and medium businesses that want to better analyze their data. People have been looking at data to bolster business since the beginning of, well, business. Go way, way back and a Roman sandal-clad street merchant 2,000 years ago might have noticed over time that he gets about a dozen more customers buying his wares on the days when he puts a canopy over his wagon as a shield from the hot midday sun.

From LEGOs to Japanese noodles, companies are letting users control their brand--and grow it.

Everything that needs to be said of Steve Jobs has already been written. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else. If you read only one story about Steve Jobs today (yeah, right) make it this one

Over the next few weeks millions of incoming college students will make the trek to college as the head of their own households for the first time, creating a massive opportunity for brands to create lifelong loyalties for first-time decision makers. Learn five ways to friend the Class Of 2015 from the brands that are getting it right. As August comes to a close, you’ve probably noticed the barrage of “Back to School” ads that hold your every neuron hostage.

Set ambitious goals, says a study.

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

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work. Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility

When we outsourced manufacturing to China and Japan and Taiwan, we may have lost something far more important than low-wage jobs.

Dear EarthTalk : I don’t hear much about the environmental impacts of our consumer culture any more, but it seems to me that our “buy, buy, buy” mentality is a major contributor to our overuse of energy and resources.

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Dr. John Santa of Consumer Reports speaks to Chris Wragge about a new investigation that found some healthcare providers are unnecessarily marketing expensive heart procedures to healthy patients.

How a new ratings system and lightning-fast database is kicking off conversations about brands that launched as far back as 1872, all the way up through ...

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Carbonite's Cloudy IPO . Carbonite, a paid cloud-storage warehouse service, is prepping for an IPO--making the most of growing awareness about cloud technology, and before competitors like Amazon or Apple seal up much of the consumer-facing industry