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Will applying the lessons learned making computer chips to solar panels result in really cheap solar power? Solar startups often have impressively big ideas about how they're going to scale up the next revolutionary technology, but few get the job done

A zealous Miami law enforcement pro bootstrapped his own app, isee-isay, to support the homeland security motto, "See something, say something." Will DHS help recoup his investment?

How Pixar's John Lasseter dug into the cutting-room-floor scrap heap of the first Cars movie to come up with the idea for the new film. Creative people know that no idea that gets cut from a project ever goes in the trash can

As Microsoft's Bing increasingly focuses on enabling search to "help you complete tasks," rather than simply "find stuff," Skype could become an important part of the user experience. We’ve written before about how Bing is trying to turn search into an app.

Emily White offers further validation that the secret sauce in the deals space isn't savings. It's sharing and serendipity.

Since I live in New York and work in digital media I sometimes mistakenly feel like the entrepreneurial community is made up entirely of button-down wearing iPad-carrying 20- or 30-something guys who talk about the latest venture-capital deals, update around the clock through Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn, and just last month or year started some sort of online technology service or app that’s still in beta or stealth mode. If there’s anything the 650 attending the Women Presidents’ Organization annual conference this year in Vancouver make clear, that’s not the whole startup story.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Overstock.com Released From Google 'Penalty Box ' Google has released Overstock.com from its reduced search ranking after the retailer dropped a policy of encouraging colleges to post links to its products

Concerts and sporting events have long needed a way to efficiently fill every seat in the house. ScoreBig might be the ticket.

01 / Yandex > > For mastering search. The internet search company Yandex is already three times more popular than Google in its home market (Russia) and this year, it made its move onto Google's international turf with the launch of an English-language search engine. One of Yandex's key advantages has always been the complexity of the Russian language, whose Lego-set of prefixes, roots and suffixes has forced it to be a step ahead in the nuance of its algorithms.

Apple sold almost 5 million iPads around the world last quarter. But it still couldn't make them fast enough to meet demand. Apple sold almost 5 million iPads during its March quarter—and it still couldn’t keep up with the demand, company executives said during a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday

In February, we predicted that Demand Media IPO'd just in time.

Earlier this year, Google made a few changes to its search system to try to fight the tendency of content from spam sites and content farms to rise to the top of results. Now it’s saying that those changes have impacted 12% of all search queries

After we wrote about how many solar panel makers fared badly on The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition 's 2011 Solar Scorecard , the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) nearly fell over itself to respond, telling us that the solar industry is cleaning up its act--and fast.

Yesterday we heard about the Open Compute Project. Facebook's director of hardware design, Frank Frankovsky, tells us about part two of the social network’s plan to spur suppliers to build the products it needs.