Experts of all stripes offer tips on how to rethink the work-life juggle and escape stress. Here's why doing so is nearly impossible. Work-life balance is one of those problems that is so hard to solve in terms of concrete actions that we often try to get rid of the tension by creatively re-conceptualizing it
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Millions of retailers have filed an antitrust suit against big bank credit card companies. The goal? Cutting interchange fees and ending a crushing monopoly
Read More »The Wrath of a Great Leader
How Martin Luther King, Jr. wrestled with anger and what you can learn from his example.
Read More »Cyber Crime: Are You a Target?
Hackers stole credit card data from 200 businesses over three years and racked up $3 million in bogus charges. Don't think it can't happen to you.
Read More »Secure Your Digital Life In The Time It Takes To Have A Coffee Break
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.
Read More »A Never Before Seen Optical Trick Creates Ultra-Secure Cash
Imagine a bill covered with microscopic holes that make it glow slightly in the light. It's tech borrowed from a butterfly, and it may soon be foiling counterfeiters around the world
Read More »Buyers Circle Yahoo, RIM Expands Enterprise Servers to Android/iOS, ARM Launches Android Development Kit
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. [youtube SH-LEYKzXDg] Daredevil Jetman Yves Rossy flew recently his jet-powered wings in one of the most daring maneuvers yet: In tight formation with jet aircraft from the Breitling team
Read More »Could iTunes Be Used To Spy On You?
British firm Gamma International was found hawking spyware to foreign intelligence services that installed onto users' computers via an iTunes security hole. The breach has been fixed, but documents indicate that the exploit was used to snoop on the email, Skype, and social media activities of users worldwide
Read More »Celebrate Veterans Day By Hiring One
Scores of initiatives are helping veterans get back to work. Here's how your business can help. American veterans returned from war to face an altogether different type of battle: finding a job
Read More »Ramping Up The Emotional Side Of Marketing When It Can’t Be Measured
There's a big misconception that to know the true value of something, you must track it, that success lays solely in the outcome of very specific numbers.
Read More »New Ways to Ward Off Hackers
Want to keep your computers, e-mails, and business secrets safe? Learn the latest in data encryption. Encryption isn’t typically something we hear too much about, even though most people use it every day unknowingly
Read More »Skype’s Huge, New Security Headaches
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.
Read More »Websense Is Facebook’s Bug (And Spam) Exterminator
Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam.
Read More »The Most Secure Android Phone, Ever
Germans have found a way to create super-secure virtual "work phones" on Android devices. This could become a new, competitive threat to the already beleaguered Research In Motion...
Read More »Welcome To Apple Day, Microsoft Buries Zune, New Hope For Californian Rare Earths?, HTC To Issue Security Patch
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe
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