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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Nuance Brings Voice Control To TV

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain is bucking a national trend of declining moviegoer attendance. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema , the Austin-based movie theater chain founded by film fanatic Tim League, saw an increase in audience in 2011, the year national attendance at the movies hit a 16-year low.

The results are in--and they arent pretty. Here are eight cautionary tales from some of the worlds biggest brands. Recently I gave a group of my MBA students at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business in New York this assignment: Identify the most questionable new products of the year and analyze what made them so ill conceived.

Futurists and smart thinkers weigh in on the technology that will change how you'll do business.

When is the right time to walk away from a project or job? And what about all your fears of leaving? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The 4-Hour Workweek (2007) by Tim Ferriss .

You talk about your company all the time, to investors, to clients. What if someone rips off your great ideas

Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold. As long as we’ve had computers and gadgets, there’s been a tension between security and ease of use.

Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold. As long as we’ve had computers and gadgets, there’s been a tension between security and ease of use. On one extreme, there are the passwords that are so complex you intentionally can’t remember them, and emails that involve sending an encryption key to your recipients

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple Wins Patent Skirmish With HTC.

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

With the Japanese launch of Sony's new handheld gaming device PlayStation Vita this weekend, the company is hoping to outplay not only the Nintendo 3DS, but also smartphones and tablets. We spoke with Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller about how Vita can compete in the brave new portable world.

Mobeam, a start-up partnering with P&G on digital coupon scanning technology, made a big announcement.

Why your website user experience matters--and how to create a great one. Facebook vs

The writer who made up stories for The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper's and others (then tried to lie his way out) is fighting to become a lawyer in California. To the journalist who busted his original lies, Glass's tactics sound eerily familiar.

Sure, it would be neat if an app could help me find a local pickup game in my neighborhood, but is that something residents of New York City actually need?