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When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys A Thousand IBM Patents .

Instead of focusing on how much investment they get, startups should make something that solves problems. If they do, they'll get loyal customers, and that's more important than investors

We will help you make sense of your broadband options and which technology will be a good fit for your business. Deciding whether to fire an unproductive employee?

In 24 hours, 80 developers needed to create the most innovative video prototypes possible. Here's a look at the hackathon's clear winners. It's Hour 27 of Hackday.tv , a two-day contest organized by Shelby.tv to develop a new wave of video and TV technology, yet the contestants remain calm, chipper, and awake

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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apple Pushes New Charity Scheme . Tim Cook has made one of the first noticeable changes to Apple policy since the resignation of Steve Jobs: In an email to Apple staff Cook revealed that if employees donate money to non-profit 501©(3) organizations, Apple will match the totals up to $10,000 annually

Entrepreneurs are often ousted from the companies they start. Management experts weigh in on why founder succession happens, and how you can avoid it. In July, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin was moved out of the top spot at the handmade goods retail website he founded in 2005.

It outsourced its search business to Microsoft; it sold off popular properties like Delicious; and it made plays for original content, mobile, and social.

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From the office Christmas party to friending employees on social media, here are nine new and old etiquette rules you need to commit to memory. In that corner office, you’ll find yourself balancing concerns about payroll and the supply chain with concerns about being liked by your employees and customers

The company is now the biggest name in microlending. Watch its meteoric rise, from sending just a few loans to one African entrepreneur to moving hundreds of millions of dollars of capital around the world

The oil and gas business never changes! You get oil out of the ground, turn it into gas and put it in your car. Nothing ever changes, right?

Average five-to-ten year wait for organs prompting patients so try to hasten the process via the Internet

I saw this paper going around the internet early last week, and I was immediately very interested. [More]