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Jonathan Kaplan has launched The Melt, a chow chain backed by James Beard award-winning designers, Michelin Star award-winning chefs, kitchen workflow engineers, and millions of dollars from Sequoia Capital. The Flip Cam was pretty awesome, too.

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

"Really, it doesn't make the most sense for us to go right after Ticketmaster now, when we have such a large opportunity in all these other markets," says Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz. Popular ticketing startup Eventbrite is known more for selling tix for local indie acts than Madison Square Garden headliners

When genetically engineered, the Long Evans Hooded rat (center) and the Sprague Dawleys may help cure cancer. Not bad for a rodent

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

Passion alone is typically what drives a founder to get a new business off the ground.

For some businesses, social impact can be measured by the size of the checks they write. For others, the mission is woven directly into the business. The Classic Example Founded in 1988, Seventh Generation started as a mail-order company for green household products

Photograph Daryl Visscher Illustration by Gluekit Amit Bhatia, Founder and CEO of Aspire. Illustration by Gluekit .blue { color:rgb(0,113,146); font-weight:bold; } BIG IDEA: To supply India's booming economy with millions of young workers who come from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds.

"The cloud" is the biggest and most overused buzzword in the tech industry. You can't turn on the TV today without seeing ads from Microsoft , IBM, or Cisco touting the cloud in some form. Take the following IBM commercial, which attempts to define the lofty concept for consumers: the cloud does email, predicts traffic patterns, lowers energy bills, develops software, understands risk

The facts paint a grim picture . Women make up half of the U.S. workforce but represent only 25 percent of the technology industry.

As the world of video games continues to evolve, so too should our expectations of how games will positively influence how we work, learn, and live, both online and offline. In a recent blog post , Nicholas Carr, author of the critically acclaimed book The Shallows , reviewed some of the latest studies on the cognitive effects of video games.

Halle Tecco, who founded the new health-care startup incubator Rock Health, is bringing in visionaries like the founder of Guitar Hero to help creative, innovative, and--dare we say it--fun health-care startups get off the ground.

Once upon a time, people didn't camp outside the local Apple Store just to sneak a peek at a jumbo iPhone (we're talking about you, iPad).

Garage48, the biggest name in 48-hour hackathons in Estonia, is coming soon to several African countries. When you think of startups, what cities come to mind

Remember a few years ago when everyone decided that using algae as a biofuel feedstock would be the best thing ever? Well, progress on that front is moving so slowly that companies have realized that that might not be where the money is