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One of the 10 commercial partnerships with home energy technology companies GE announced this week was SunRun, a home solar company. Now both companies are in the business of getting panels on people's roofs

Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.

For businesses just starting out (and even for businesses that are already established), writing a business plan that bankers and investors can understand can be difficult. What is the point of a business plan

The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing? Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically extremely polished) effort at bringing 60,000 digital copies of historic books to the general public as a free iPad app.

Use Google Goggles to scan bands and art (not clunky codes) to download free stuff in the new HTC Sensation 4G ads, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Deutsch L.A. and Google

Those thin gray streaks in the image are the high-altitude plumes of ash spreading across the Pacific Ocean from the erupting Chilean volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, as imaged by NASA. The ash continues to disrupt flights in parts of the region, with Australia and New Zealand (on the left of the image) particularly affected

Google has poured hundreds of millions of bucks into clean power over the last few months. But their newest announcement isn't about utilities, it's about getting solar panels on as many houses as possible. Over the past few months, Google has become something of a clean energy superhero, making several investments, including a $168 million investment in California's Ivanpah solar farm and a $100 million investment in the world's biggest wind farm .

One of the winners of a contest to translate Prius technology to the real world, this prototype helmet will protect your head--and call an ambulance for you if you take a spill. You're in a nasty bike accident during rush hour

Stanford's Spatial History Project uses databases, ArcGIS, and other technological bells and whistles to visualize history that can't otherwise be easily told.

A new interactive map of U.S. cases shows that HIV is probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. It has been just 30 years since the first cases of HIV were diagnosed

One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple's release, was Fei Lam. How did Lam hear about it? "I came back from school today and saw your email," he tells Fast Company via chat message, adding, "Lol." For someone who allegedly made contacts in China to import iPhone parts before Apple, started his own business (WhiteiPhone4Now.com), and pulled in tens of thousands of dollars in revenue--sometimes as much as $8,000 a day --it's easy to forget that Lam is just a teenage boy still living with his parents

The medical cannabis industry is exploding.

As NASA settles for a tried and trusted solution, Britain's plans for a next-gen Space Shuttle inch forward with the Skylon: A black, future-tech spaceplane that absolutely looks the part. The Skylon has, in a way, been some three decades in development already--stretching almost back to the days of Apollo, curiously also the model for NASA's future spacecraft . But European and British regulators have just now given approval to its design.

A company that started out looking to join the social commerce revolution found an opportunity in simply being useful to people trying to manage email receipts. Inboxes are the new wallets--stuffed with too many receipts to even begin to organize. That’s why Project Slice is today launching a new application that will automatically scan your emails and collect all your purchase information in a single place.

One goal of our 100 Most Creative People In Business package is to bring you closer to the creative processes driving business geniuses. And our newly released iPad app gets you closer than ever before