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When Ankur Jain entered Wharton's undergraduate business program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, he immediately wanted to start a business. His father, Naveen Jain, the CEO of data company Intelius, told him no.
Read More »Five Predictions For The Future Of Energy
People love to prognosticate about how the world will power itself in the future. But only one person can be right. Here's some of the possible ways the next 50 years might turn out.
Read More »Gulf Wild Cuts Down On Seafood Fraud By Electronically Tagging Fish
That grouper on your plate may not be grouper at all--unless it has an electronic tag saying otherwise.
Read More »Syria Follows The Pattern, Shuts Its Internet Down
In what's becoming a predictable move, Syria has shut down Internet access in an attempt to quash the organization of a national uprising, dubbed Children's Friday and inspired in part by a now viral YouTube video of the body of a tortured and murdered 13-year-old boy . As reported by Renesys , a business communications intelligence firm that also chronicled the Net shut-down in Egypt , Syria began to shut its Net access at 6:35 a.m
Read More »Tech Pioneer Becomes Obama Campaign CTO
If there was any doubt the Obama re-election campaign was going to stomp into new digital territory in the upcoming race, it was erased by today’s announcement that it is appointing uber-hipster and tech rebel Harper Reed as the organization’s CTO. Reed, who is 33 according to the Chicago Tribune , is the former CTO of Threadless, an online clothing company that pioneered crowdsourced design
Read More »Why This E. Coli Outbreak Has Me Scared
The E. coli outbreak that started in Germany is getting bigger and a lot scarier.
Read More »Video: Europe e. coli strain highly toxic, unknown
The World Health Organization said the e. coli bacteria responsible for the outbreak in Europe is a highly toxic strain that has never seen before. Jeff Glor reports.
Read More »Video: New possible link between cellphones and cancer
CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports on a new study by the World Health Organization that links cellphones with brain cancer.
Read More »Fast Company Is Hiring A Web Production Coordinator
We are looking for a web production coordinator to join the Fast Company development team. This position is deeply involved in the production of our web content--you will be working with our web producer, editorial staff, writers, and photo editors in order to implement stories within our content management system. Being an Assistant web production coordinator means that you wear many hats and are comfortable communicating with different parts of our organization.
Read More »Radiation from Cell Phones Flagged as "Possibly"– Not Probably–Carcinogenic
The radiation emitted by mobile phones has been classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by a World Health Organization (WHO) scientific working group. [More]
Read More »Tobacco could kill 8 million a year by 2030: Can gruesome warning labels save lives? (PICTURES)
On World No Tobacco Day, World Health Organization warns of dangerous trend in tobacco-related deaths
Read More »Building Customer Loyalty
Want your customers to stick to you like glue? Today it takes more than a punch-card or priority line.
Read More »The iPad Is A $500 Kid’s Game
A survey from PBS has revealed something pretty staggering for a $500-plus next-gen computing device: 70% of parents are happy to hand the iPad to their kids, and download child-friendly apps for the rugrats. A new PBS survey has 70% of parents reporting that they allow their kids to use their iPad
Read More »World Health Organization to Decide Fate of Smallpox Stocks
By Declan Butler of Nature magazine Health ministers from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) 193 member states will next week debate when to destroy the two last known remaining stocks of the virus that causes smallpox, a scourge that was eradicated in 1980. Many scientists argue, however, that the variola stocks should be maintained, perhaps indefinitely
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