Months after India's healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future.
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Nine months after being gobbled up by Walmart, the company formerly known as Kosmix is leading the retail behemoth's innovative efforts in mobile and online retail.
Read More »Fashion With an Indian Flair
With his two-year-old website, Exclusively.In, Sunjay Guleria is hoping that American consumers are ready for Mumbai chic fashion. Aneesh Agarwaal, Payal Singhal, Pam Mehta. To fashionistas in India, those names are the equivalent of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Donna Karan.
Read More »Can Stem Cells Help Save Snow Leopards from Extinction?
Jurassic meow? Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have come up with a novel idea for possibly saving endangered big cats: reproduce them in the lab.
Read More »Zappos Accounts Hacked, Netflix Investors File Class Action Suit, Facebook Planning May IPO?
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Facebook Planning May IPO?
Read More »Gibson Guitar And IBM: The Art, And Science, Of Doing Well By Doing Good
When it comes to being good corporate citizens, enlightened self-interest can and should carry they day. Learn how two remarkably different companies, Gibson Guitar and IBM, are doing good for their brands and their communities. At first glance, Nashville-based
Read More »"Angry Brides" Game Tackles Dowry In India, iPhone 5 To Run On T-Mobile?, Facebook Launches "Listen"
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Shaadi.com Launches "Angry Brides" Facebook Game
Read More »Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges in India
By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease.
Read More »Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That
Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.
Read More »How One Man Turns Trash into Profits
Waste Ventures is transforming garbage-and-recycling collection in the developing world into sustainable communities, and a growing business.
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When Pouenat Ferronnier was awarded the Enterprise of Living Heritage designation by the French government in 2009, it was the culminating honor for the iron smithery that was established in 1880. The firm’s exceptional furnishings—conjured up by such important international modern designers as Tristan Auer, India Mahdavi, and Thomas Boog, ...
Read More »Navigating the Developing-Nation Solar Boom
Simpa Networks, the latest company by former Microsoft employee Paul Needham, is introducing pay-as-you-go solar power to rural India.
Read More »Report: Immigrants Launch 46% of Top Start-ups
A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation. So why does America make it so difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to stay? Just in case you need more proof that America's immigration policies are damaging to innovation, a new report shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have founded nearly half of America's top venture-backed companies.
Read More »Report: Immigrants Launch 46% of Top Start-ups
A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation.
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