You know your device's memory will one day fail or not be enough, but how well do you know the faults of your onboard wetware? The best memory system may not be the one inside your head.
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Feed SubscriptionVevo, Echo Nest Team For Personalized Music Video Recommendations Based On Your iTunes Library
Watching Vevo, the online music-video service, used to be all about one-off experiences. Viewers would head to Vevo or YouTube to watch music videos by artists such as Jay-Z or LMFAO, but rarely would they venture beyond what they searched for
Read More »Investing In Women–And Not Just In The Abstract
Companies with more women on boards and in leadership positions outperform, financially and otherwise, companies with fewer women--and yet, this information doesn't typically factor into investment decisions. Now, some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality.
Read More »Can Music Licensing Become Like Licensing A Photo For Your Web Page?
Greenlight Music , a new effort from Corbis, is designed to make accessing professional music content easy. Its web page explains it pretty exactly: "Get the right to use the world's most popular music in your commercial project
Read More »Low-Cost Ways To Show Employees They’re Highly Valued
Small businesses can compete for talent without breaking the bank. Yes, you still need to pay competitive wages to get people in the door, but it’s the perks that will help you retain them. Here are 30 low-cost ideas for small businesses who want to show employees that they are highly valued
Read More »Why The PC Will Die Soon
The PC has already been replaced by the tablet, in some hugely important and meaningful ways. Its day in the sun is all but over. The New York Times suggests, vaguely , that today on the eve of the iPad 3 announcement the future of the PC looks dim.
Read More »7 Steps To Getting Paid More And Promoted Faster
There are methods and techniques used by the highest-paid and most successful people in our society to get paid more money for what they do and get promoted faster to higher levels of authority and responsibility.
Read More »FBI Arrests Members Of LulzSec, Anonymous, Google Couples Mobile-PC Search History, China Is Facebook’s Biggest Asia App Partner
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. FBI Arrests Members Of LulzSec, Anonymous .
Read More »SessionM Turns On Game Tech To Keep You From Turning Off Mobile Ads
He was the cofounder of Quattro wireless and helped launch Apple's iAd. Now Lars Albright, CEO of SessionM, has a new trick to stop you from ignoring ads in mobile devices: You'll be playing along.
Read More »The Truth About That Mysterious, Sudden, Overwhelming Chocolate Craving
It's not so mysterious, after all. And neither is your coffee or Coke habit.
Read More »Edmodo, A "Facebook For Schools," Chalks Up API To Become Classroom Platform
Digital adoption in schools has been slow because of the overhead involved. That changes today.
Read More »Using Great Storytelling To Grow Your Business
Every two months, I pull together a community of innovators. We meet somewhere in New York City, usually a boardroom overlooking a park or cityscape. But last month we all found our way into an acting studio operated by The Actors Institute to learn about storytelling
Read More »Numecent Runs Photoshop, "Call of Duty," Windows 7, And More From The Cloud–Offline, Too
Imagine a world where there are no downloads.
Read More »Barclaycard’s Ring Calls On Crowd To Build A Better Credit Card
Turns out you don't have to be a banker or a mathlete to get into the credit card business.
Read More »When There’s No Simple Solution At Work, Learn To Embrace The Mess
This is the third in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton . Read the first installment, Are You A Power Poisoned Boss?
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