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Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales

Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Obama To Host Facebook Town Hall At 1:45 p.m

LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.

Imagine a world where you'd never have to flag down a harried waiter. Where you can place your order for a ribeye and Jameson the moment you sit down. Where you can take care of the check as soon as you're ready—and not when said harried waiter gets around to it.

1. It just got about as official as it's likely to get: Agreeing with information obtained by Fast Company from inside Apple , Reuters has just confirmed , from "three people with direct knowledge" of Apple's supply chain, that the new iPhone 5 won't go into mass production until July/August. Meaning it'll ship sometime in September--much later than usual.

Ramon Ray, journalist and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com , sums it up perfectly: "Small businesses can do BIG things using low-cost technology and readily available expertise." It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.

Ramon Ray, journalist and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com , sums it up perfectly: "Small businesses can do BIG things using low-cost technology and readily available expertise." It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.

Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. In four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year.

Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that's designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line.

The founder of Blu Cigs, battery-powered electronic cigarettes that mimic the look and feel of traditional cigs and deliver vaporized nicotine to users, believes he's discovered an innovation that could help his company compete with R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. Jason Healy, president of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company, and his team have spent about a year developing the "Smart Pack," a first-of-its-kind e-cig pack which features unique ID technology that detects nearby e-smokers.

FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains .

Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation?

Dear John: My partner and I are architects, which means our business relies on our professional know-how and expertise. It's not a business whereby we sell widgets and that can implement systems and procedures which anyone can follow

Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing. The 60 Minutes expose of much-lauded author and social entrepreneur Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea; Stones into Schools) is rocketing around the web