When Greg Ryan and his son came up with the technology to pasteurize water, they didn't know they would be leading the most important and lucrative subsector of the water industry. Perhaps no one understands the value of water better than a farmer
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Feed SubscriptionBoost Your Negotiating Leverage: 3 Strategies
When you've got nothing to lose, take some tips from Mediacom CEO Rocco Commisso What do you do when you’re outgunned, outmaneuvered, and out of options? Rocco Commisso, founder and CEO of regional cable operator Mediacom, was in a very public, high-stakes battle with broadcasters. At the beginning, he had very little leverage
Read More »Break Through to $1M in Federal Contracts
Studies show that teaming up with a prime contractor may be the fastest way to breach the seven-figure mark. Here's what you need to know.
Read More »Google’s Online Tablet Store, RIM’s Cofounder Leaves As Company Misses Financial Results, Living Social Founder Exits
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Drive Leaks Continue . It now looks that when Google's cloud storage app Google drive arrives it'll come with a capacity bigger than an earlier rumored 2GB storage capacity, instead offering 5GB for your documents
Read More »Apple’s Chinese Democracy: Foxconn Gets The iTreatment
In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.
Read More »Signs of Trouble at Leaking North Sea Gas Rig Month Before
By Oleg Vukmanovic and Karolin Schaps LONDON (Reuters) - Signs of trouble aboard a North Sea drilling platform where a natural gas leak has triggered fears of a massive explosion began in a plugged well a month ago, operator Total said on Friday.
Read More »Honest Tea CEO: What I Told Congress
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Read More »Could Tax Reform Kill Your Business?
The President and just about every Republican candidate favors eliminating tax loopholes.
Read More »Are You Overlooking Valuable Employees?
New data shows that there's a huge pool of talented workers out there just waiting to be hired. Check out what you're missing. The Disability Funders Network says that people with disabilities constitute the largest minority group in the U.S
Read More »Reporters without Borders Releases Its 2012 "Internet Enemies" List
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that defends journalists and fights censorship, on Monday added the governments of Bahrain and Belarus to its 2012 list of Internet Enemies an inventory of governments worldwide that filter online content, restrict their citizens’ Internet access, track cyber dissidents and use the Web to spread pro-government propaganda while smearing opposition. These countries join other governments that the NGO has cited as cyber oppressors, including Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Bahrain, whose population of 1.2 million people reside an area roughly the size of Washington, D.C., experienced an uprising last February as part of the Arab Spring protests throughout the Middle East and northern Africa
Read More »My Conversation with Clinton
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Coal Port Growth Threatens Barrier Reef: Greenpeace
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia's rapid expansion of coal ports in the next decade will threaten the Great Barrier Reef as increased ship traffic, port infrastructure and dredging put pressure on the world's largest coral reef, Greenpeace said on Thursday. Coal is one of Australia's top export earners, and the Great Barrier Reef sits off the coast of the eastern state of Queensland, the country's largest coal-producer.
Read More »New "Challenge" for Detroit
Can paying recent graduates to work and play in Detroit infuse the city with extra creativity? Challenge Detroit is banking on it. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Obama's then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to have said of the 2008 meltdown of the financial sector.
Read More »The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh
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