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We crunched the numbers to learn the most common names found among the CEOs of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

It outsourced its search business to Microsoft; it sold off popular properties like Delicious; and it made plays for original content, mobile, and social.

From the office Christmas party to friending employees on social media, here are nine new and old etiquette rules you need to commit to memory. In that corner office, you’ll find yourself balancing concerns about payroll and the supply chain with concerns about being liked by your employees and customers

The deadly plot unrealized. The heart attack not had. The truth is that the successes of both national security and public health often pass by unnoticed.

LinkedIn's new "Volunteer Experience and Causes" feature, launching today, encourages users to tout their selfless deeds to land better jobs.

Everybody loves to do good. Here are four steps - and a few creative ideas - to kick-start a cause marketing campaign for your business. If your company is giving back in one form or another, then good for you! Our communities need our help above and beyond the fact that we're creating jobs.

You used to be able to rent a single episode of some of your favorite TV shows via iTunes, and access them for a short period for your viewing pleasure.

When big companies--like Apple, Levi's, or the Gap--are caught treating their workers badly, they call Verite to help reform their organizations to prevent human rights abuses. Companies generally jump at the chance to point out any miniscule improvement in their environmental responsibility.

As soon as our species abandoned the daily grind of Stone Age feast-or-famine, we went straight to town.

A new project, funded by the U.S.

Given the modern scale of Facebook-- deals with Ticketmaster , moving to a huge new campus , and everybody you know using it--it’s hard to imagine the company moving fast enough to mimic the features of the social network Google launched just two months ago. But anyone who’s spent 10 minutes inside Google+ will see quite a few similarities to what’s coming to their Facebook account

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Plus's Gundotra Toasts Jobs .

Over the next few weeks millions of incoming college students will make the trek to college as the head of their own households for the first time, creating a massive opportunity for brands to create lifelong loyalties for first-time decision makers. Learn five ways to friend the Class Of 2015 from the brands that are getting it right. As August comes to a close, you’ve probably noticed the barrage of “Back to School” ads that hold your every neuron hostage.

The United States Navy is considering embracing Google+ for communicating with sailors and the greater public. The reason, it seems, mostly has to do with Facebook's counterintuitive security settings

Why can't anyone tame the social stream and just give us the good stuff? Illustration by Debaser Every minute of every day , the more than a half-billion members of Facebook collectively create almost 1 million photos, wall posts, status updates, and other bits of ephemera. The firehose at Twitter looks tame by comparison--the network sees more than 125,000 tweets a minute, only half of them about (or from) randy congressmen.