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Foxconn, most famous as Apple's China-based manufacturer, has set out a stringent list of demands for Brazil to meet before it builds a $12 billion plant there. Rumors swirled for long while that Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, was considering expanding its existing local business and opening a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Brazil, with firmer data emerging only earlier this year

A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.

Right now I am staring at a message that has been haunting me for weeks, hovering dangerously at the top of my Gmail inbox.

New data suggests something surprising: Microsoft's dominance of the computer game is still in place, but it's slipping. It's losing its browser lead, too.

Research in Motion tries to improve its smartphone game, following a series of dismal announcements. Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry, need a Hail Mary pass. Its sales are dropping; a few week ago, it put out dismal numbers

And other stories about how the news of Al Qaeda’s leader’s passing ping-ponged around the web and social media, from BNO News to George W. Bush. It was one of the most tweeted--but not the single most tweeted--events, Twitter tells us.

Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Groupon Dumps Trump Groupon pulls ads from Donald Trump's Apprentice website, saying it had gotten calls from customers upset about Trump's ongoing political circus .

As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games. Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus on Lord Of the Flies book summaries and five-paragraph essays. So far 42 states have pledged to adopt the (coercively) voluntary standards championed by President Obama, the National Governors Association, and billionaire education crusader, Bill Gates

Google's mobile ads let consumers click a phone number and immediately call an advertiser. You'd be surprised who's using it. A year ago, the Google ads team launched a new feature for mobile phones called Click-to-Call, which, as its name would suggest, lets advertisers include a phone number in their ad that users can click to place a call.

BPA , an estrogen-mimicking chemical found in food and drink can linings, adhesives, and many plastics, has been repeatedly linked to breast cancer, early puberty, infertility, and other health problems. The stuff is really bad for you.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Verizon Can Hear You...24 Hours Later Verizon's 4G LTE data network has just come back online after a 24-hour blackout

Move over massages, martinis, and manicures. RapidBuyr wants to sell you printers, pens, and PowerPoint. (Yes, we adore alliteration!) The daily deals moshpit has mostly been a consumer affair so far

Philadelphia residents have a new weapon for fighting municipal corruption: An iPhone app that lets them send photos and video of money-wasting city employees directly to the controller's office. One crusading Philadelphia politician is using iPhones to fight corruption and fraud. City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced the launch of Philly Watchdog , an anti-corruption iPhone application, on April 19