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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Spotify To Enable Third Party App Access . Spotify boss Daniel Ek has just revealed his music streaming website will enable third party HTML5 apps to integrate right into the Spotify platform

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Experiencing music as a social activity used to mean going to a concert, or maybe a party. And to learn about new music or artists in the days of yore, you had radio, record shops, or the much-fabled mix tape .

How a round-trip, 12,000-mile journey revived a clothing line. img.thiswrapper {margin-bottom:10px;} This fall, Barneys New York and J.Crew began selling a new women's fashion line called Edith A. Miller--and in doing so gave new life to a forgotten, 91-year-old Pennsylvania maker of white undershirts

Google+ has everything you'd expect from a fully featured social network -- except the right kind of users. And that's a big problem

On a perfect Southern California morning not long ago, a gaggle of children gathered in the backyard of a million-dollar home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood to celebrate the birthday of twin four-year-old girls. The host parents had rented a petting zoo for the day, and kids jumped gleefully in a bouncy castle out in the driveway. On the terrace, a few parents chatted beside an alluring spread of bagels, coffee and fruit

Recently, the free service rolled out a variety of services for businesses, including the ability to run specials designed to attract and retain customers. Launched in 2009 , Foursquare now boasts some 10 million users eager to let their friends know when they have "checked in" to a hip new store or favorite restaurant.

As Washington maneuvers on skilled immigration reform, the United States is loosing its near-monopoly on entrepreneurship by forcing its educated Indian and Chinese immigrants to return home.

A team of international researchers led by the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has detected flaws in Skype that puts the privacy of hundreds of millions of users at risk, they say. The research shows that even when Skype users block callers, allow only calls from their contact list, and connect from behind a firewall, hackers can plumb their identities. The researchers confirmed that intruders can use Skype to discover which files call recipients are sharing, and track their whereabouts, too.

Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders.

Republicans claim to be the party of entrepreneurs. Here's how it could prove it really means it. The Republican primary debate smackdown in Las Vegas on Tuesday underscored a couple things you already knew about the GOP candidates.

Video game giant Activision is hoping that dozens of plastic toys, that interact with a series of video games on every possible platform, will be a huge success with kids (and their parents). This weekend, mammoth game publisher Activision launched a new franchise, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure . It's an evolution of the character Spyro the Dragon which debuted on PlayStation 1 in 1998

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(AP) -- Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke.