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In a world generating and storing tons of data every day, business owners need to learn how to harness it to get an edge.
Read More »Design That Makes a Difference
How I did it: Architect David Rockwell explains how he thinks not only about a building, but also about the way people experience it. David Rockwell believes that all the world is a stage. The 56-year-old architect's love of theater informs every design project ever done by his firm, Rockwell Group, in New York City.
Read More »Live Webcast: Xenophobia–Why Do We Fear Others?
Join a panel of scientists, scholars and public intellectuals, including primatologist Frans de Waal, international economic advisor and Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, experimental social psychologist Steven Neuberg, cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and New York Times editorialist Charles Blow , as they discuss the biological and social dimensions of the timely issue of xenophobia, or the unreasonable fear of "others." [More]
Read More »Turn a Hunch Into a Strategy
A low-cost, low-effort way to test your instincts--and prove a meaningful insight--before it's too late. We all have hunches: that a new market is about to explode, that there's a problem in finance, that consumer behavior is changing
Read More »Forget "Mad Men"–Now Is The Golden Era For Advertising
Oftentimes when people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I work in advertising, they ask, “Don’t you wish you got to be an ad man in the golden era, like on Mad Men?” I usually smile and respond with “What makes you think the golden era was 40 years ago? We are living in the golden era right now--the most exciting and unpredictable time in marketing history." We are witnessing a complete social transformation. The entire industry has been flipped on its head
Read More »Why Twitter Bought Posterous: Talent And Apple
Yesterday Twitter revealed it bought Posterous , a lifeblogging/microblogging/sharing site.
Read More »Kony 2012: Making Video Go Viral
Almost overnight, millions of people watched and shared this 30-minute video.
Read More »New Facebook Timeline Tells Livestrong’s Story Of Endurance
CEO Doug Ulman explains how the new social tool puts the emphasis on overcoming challenges over time, something Lance Armstrong knows about. In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman , the President and CEO of the
Read More »Video: New prenatal test creates ethical, political fallout
A new prenatal test that reveals birth abnormalities at a much earlier stage is sure to give pregnant women and their families a lot more to think about. Erica Hill reports
Read More »What Motivates Young Entrepreneurs Now?
A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship. Today's young entrepreneurs are motivated to start companies because they hate authority and want to break all the rules, according to a recent study of 250 business owners between the ages of 18 and 22 years old.
Read More »Inside INTERPOL’s New Cybercrime Innovation Center
INTERPOL, the international policing agency, is opening a massive innovation center in Singapore in 2014.
Read More »Fast Talk: How GrubWithUs Scales Intimacy
Meet Sen Sugano, Director of Business Development at the dinner-with-strangers startup.
Read More »White House Takes To Google+ Hangout Again To Speak To Entrepreneurs (And Us) About Startup America
Steve Case, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and NEC Director Gene Sperling use Google's new-ish social tool to talk about Startup America on behalf of the White House
Read More »White House Takes To Google+ Hangout Again To Speak To Entrepreneurs (And Us) About Startup America
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