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Greg Brooks, founder of Sub Sea Research, a small business in Maine, is setting off on a journey to salvage a $3 billion underwater wreck. One Maine entrepreneur is hoping to turn a $5 million investment into a $3 billion payday. Greg Brooks, founder and owner of Sub Sea Research, a Portland, Maine-based business that hunts for treasure, recently came across the biggest find of his career: 1.7 million ounces—62,500 pounds—of platinum aboard a scuttled cargo ship that sank in 1942

Photo by Benjamin Lowy What do you get when you cross Walmart with Mother Teresa? Who would be the Square Deal candidate in 2012? And how in the world do you compare--and rank--such dynamic, eclectic businesses as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Is $3.5 million for 30 seconds of fame worth it? These businesses are putting it all on the line during Super Bowl XLVI. Some make you laugh , others (attempt to) make you cry.

A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach.

Showtime won big at the Golden Globes, taking home three awards, including best drama series for "Homeland." Nevins spoke with Fast Company about the rapidly changing world of cable TV and how he stays on top in a world where audience tastes evolve at an ever-accelerating pace. In the early '90s, most networks turned down the idea for the television show that would become ER.

Drybar closes a $16 million investment to help with expansion while its biggest competitor marches into its territory.

Spencer Antle's Island Company makes swimsuits, resort wear, sunglasses, and sunscreen.

Zooey Deschanel and Digital Broadcasting Group join forces, bringing a web series to Deschanel's site. Zooey Deschanel is getting into the web series business.

As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory.

Just before the holidays, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Rhodes — who wrote the definitive history of the Manhattan Project with The Making of the Atomic Bomb — published a new biography of film star Hedy Lamar: Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr . Why

Steven Spielberg’s animated feature The Adventures of Tintin opened this week, closing out another year full of big-budget movies based on comic books and graphic novels. Tintin joins properties like Captain America, X-Men, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Thor in the seemingly endless cavalcade of four-color characters to make it to the big screen. And 2011 was a relatively light year

In the next year, The Black List will venture beyond films--aiming to be the go-to site for the industry's favorite unproduced TV pilots and stage shows. Are TV specials and conventions in its future? "We're open to anything," says founder Franklin Leonard.

A boom in new incubators is helping to fuel a boom in new tech start-ups.

First there was Fast Company's " The 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever ." Now, due to popular demand, we present, with a nod to Christmas, "10 More of the Best Amazon Reviews. Ever." These reviews are not just a staple of consumer criticism, they've become an elevated form of crowdsourced art

.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Benjamin Lowy There are two economies at work in the United States right now. One is traditional, entrenched, powerful, and often highly profitable