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With $9 million in new funding, could lodging-search app Hotel Tonight could disrupt online travel agencies?

Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sells 6.5 Million Copies In First 24 Hours, Breaks Record. For the third straight year, Activision's Call of Duty video game franchise has broken entertainment industry sales records.

The makers of Postagram and other photo printing apps want to build their business into a dominant, gift-focused e-commerce venture. But how?

According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only the fittest survive. Here's how it works in the business world. Charles Darwin would have built a killer company.

You may remember when credit card machines weren't so reliable, so stores sometimes used that little aluminum contraption with a roller over your card, and you had to sign the printed copy hard enough to ink onto the carbon paper. This is one of the reasons some cards still have those raised silver numbers on the front alongside your name and expiration date.

Entrepreneur Ryan Goodman explains how he uses Roambi to turn spreadsheet data into interactive files that he can access on his iPhone. My company makes location intelligence software for businesses, so I'm very much a technology guy

Fast Company is tracking developments in the increasingly intense competition between Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon to show just how fast the big four are creeping into each others' spaces. Here's what changed in the 30 days since we published The Great Tech War of 2012 . Check back often

I am always looking for new ways to be innovative. I love that through Inc, I get the chance to speak with so many experts on innovation, such as Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . These experts shake up my initial notions on innovation and inspire me to try new techniques with my company

I am always looking for new ways to be innovative. I love that through Inc, I get the chance to speak with so many experts on innovation, such as Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . These experts shake up my initial notions on innovation and inspire me to try new techniques with my company

I am always looking for new ways to be innovative. I love that through Inc, I get the chance to speak with so many experts on innovation, such as Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . These experts shake up my initial notions on innovation and inspire me to try new techniques with my company .

Unconsumption helps people re-label their products with an anti-branding brand.

The world is swiftly adapting to mobile internet solutions, and in industrialized nations the era of dumbphones and 2G tech is all but over. This represents a huge opportunity for Swedish firm Ericsson, because though you may not know it, Ericsson's technology underpins much of the hardware that makes cell phone networks actually work.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. This colorful Doodle is Google's tribute to late Disney artist Mary Blair