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Venture capitalists, corporations, private-equity firms, and more poured billions into private companies this year--a huge boon for titans like Facebook and Groupon. Here, the best of the rest starting 2012 with supersize bankrolls

Simpa Networks, the latest company by former Microsoft employee Paul Needham, is introducing pay-as-you-go solar power to rural India.

Medialets chairman and CEO Eric Litman's first job was as a barker on the main street in St.

Siri is amazing .

I've read 21 'best/top/worst' lists so far this year--and most were a waste of time.

The company will start offering deals tailored to users' buying history and cell phone location in the first quarter of 2012. PayPal is diving into the daily deals business

Old Navy is teaming with Shazam, Verizon is working with the History Channel, TV Wallet has established a number of partnerships. The new gold rush is on--to empower you to buy what you see on TV and TV-like streams on your tablet or phone. Fast Company: How did the idea for Watch With eBay come about

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon Promises Fire Fix

StumbleUpon , the discovery engine that enables its users to "Stumble" onto personalized web content, unveiled a major redesign Monday, introducing a slew of upgrades that include a streamlined interface, recommendation improvements, and the addition of brand channels.

[youtube pjIK5BOADVI] Apps are coming at us from all directions, and they're getting both more sophisticated and simpler--the app economy is booming. But as everyone and their dog makes something they deem fit to call an "app," the supply will arrive like a flood. Then what will we do as a consumer society--wallow, sink, or swim?

Tiny keyboards, cramped screens, voice-activated search -- it's all going to change how people find your business online. Start preparing now. If projections are accurate , in less than three years there are likely to be more mobile Internet users than desktop users

The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to the iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's operating system.

Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers.

A crazy year for Apple shows no sign of slowing as 2012 approaches--more and more rumors are popping up. We've looked at them with a critical eye for you

Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease