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Read More »Coast Guard Document Teaches Us How to Prepare for Offshore Oil Disasters
It's not just BP that's trying to brush their mistakes from the oil spill under the rug. Soon after publishing a piece on BP's greenwashing of its first post-Deepwater Horizon CSR report, Fast Company received a tip from a reader about the Coast Guard's recently released Incident Specific Preparedness Review ( PDF )--a mammoth report from a group of NGOs, members of the oil industry, and government officials that details just how badly the Coast Guard screwed up the Gulf disaster (and, incidentally, unlike other reports of its nature, wasn't publicized, although it is readily available on the Coast Guard's website if you dig around for it)
Read More »Unsolicited Advice for Jack Dorsey on His Rumored Re-Tweet, Courtesy of Himself
Mining clues from Jack Dorsey's inner life, just as he seems poised to return in a larger capacity to the company he founded, Twitter. Several
Read More »Out to Sea With the Summit Series
Summiteers Jeff Rosenthal (far left), Natalie Spilger, and Thayer Walker prep for the gathering. | Photograph by Jeffery Salter The Summit Series is the next big wave in the conference world, thanks to its doing-good-while-feeling-good attitude. WHAT DO RICHARD BRANSON , a 7-foot-long sandbar shark, and the Dalai Lama's spiritual adviser have in common
Read More »The New York Times Playing Whac-a-Loophole Over Paywall? Let Us Count the Ways
Following its paywall (payfence?) announcement, Gray Lady readers across the web have discovered a number of loopholes. Now the Times has moved in to close them.
Read More »Marijuana Business Potential Unearthed in Groundbreaking Study [Infographic]
The first ever study of its kind by See Change Strategy takes a deep dive into medical pot, a growth industry. Here's a free sample of the data.
Read More »A "Stress Test" for Coral Reefs
Triage for ecosystems threatened by climate change.
Read More »A Pop-Up App Store In San Francisco
When Podio's Chairman Thomas Madsen-Mygdal told me at South By SouthWest last week they were creating their own application store for their flexible software tool, I wasn't surprised.
Read More »Telehealth Is Trending
Remote monitoring and other forms of "telehealth" are increasingly shown to be effective. Several recent studies reveal progress and greater interest in telehealth, according to reports.
Read More »Smartphones Are Not a Threat to Old Media–Unless They Are
We've seen conflicting data concerning the role of mobile media in our lives.
Read More »Intel Bets on Egyptian Mobile Tech
Intel's purchase of Egyptian mobile software firm SySDSoft isn't just a massive cash infusion in a post-revolution economy: It's also Intel's savvy way of getting in on the LTE fanfare.
Read More »Wait, Who Am I Meeting Now? Noteleaf Won’t Let You Forget
About to get coffee with someone, but can't remember who this "Jake" guy on your calendar is? A new web-based service mines your calendar, email, and LinkedIn contacts to build a quick cheatsheet before your meeting.
Read More »Twitter Joins Facebook in Beefing Up Security, Foiling Hackers
Twitter allows users to lock in use of HTTPS--meaning not just any amateur sitting next to you in a cafe can hack your account. Twitter recently became the latest major site to bow to pressure to make itself more secure. It added the option for users to permanently run the site via HTTPS, a more secure protocol that foils simple hacking strategies that have gained major press of late.
Read More »IBM Says Sí to Mexico City as Burgeoning Innovation Hub
A new "innovation center" opens in Mexico City. It's good business for local startups--and for IBM
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