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Much is made these days about the "pace of innovation." Everything is moving faster. Supposedly.

On the occasion of hitting 8.5 million users, the cofounder of the dead-simple, fun, social web audio service shares which recent recordings were music to his ears. SoundCloud , the beautiful, easy-to-use widget becoming more and more ubiquitous on the web, has reached 8.5 million users--including

So, you’ve decided to do the startup thing, and you’ve told a few people. Turns out everyone and their dog has an opinion about it, regardless of whether or not they’ve ever been in your shoes. Some are flat-out discouraging you, while others are congratulating you and asking some interesting questions you haven’t yet considered

You could wade through dozens of reviews of the new Amazon Kindle Fire--or let us extract the best bits for you. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else, each line taken from professional reviewers, tech bloggers, Tweeters, and Amazon customers. It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago

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Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.

More adventures in gamifying higher education. One challenge facing journalism educators in this age of instant-access Internet is getting students to leave the warm glow of their computer screens to conduct primary source research

As a branding and design consultancy, there are few things more exhilarating than being involved with a startup. But I have also seen some recurring challenges. Namely, when a client is starting a business, everything is top priority, and it is often easy to think "logo" and "design" should come later

The biggest areas of opportunity for companies hoping to set up a digital shop for Chinese consumers? Price comparison, trust, and a solid returns policy.

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.

The makers of Postagram and other photo printing apps want to build their business into a dominant, gift-focused e-commerce venture. But how?

There's a big misconception that to know the true value of something, you must track it, that success lays solely in the outcome of very specific numbers.

Hotspot Shield has just released an iOS version that gives iPhone and iPad users easy, secure VPN access. However, there's a difference: Unlike the PC product, mobile isn't free.

I’m a huge advocate of the "Rule of Three." This presentation technique holds that a speaker can more powerfully express three items or messages than any other number of items.

Rattus rattus, via alexfiles on Flickr (click image) It seems that everywhere you find a group of humans, you’ll find a clan of rats hiding in the shadows. This history seems born out of opportunity for the rat, but we’ve done our part to help them get around the world rather easily.