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Europe Set to Rule on ‘Cookie’ Policy

Web companies will probably face new restrictions on digital privacy in Europe. Global online companies may face some new challenges in operating in Europe. Digital-privacy agencies from the European Union’s member countries met late last week to discuss how to apply privacy laws to “cookies”-- small Internet files used to remember things about users, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Google’s Online Tablet Store, RIM’s Cofounder Leaves As Company Misses Financial Results, Living Social Founder Exits

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Drive Leaks Continue . It now looks that when Google's cloud storage app Google drive arrives it'll come with a capacity bigger than an earlier rumored 2GB storage capacity, instead offering 5GB for your documents

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55-Hour Week? You’re Wasting Time

Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right

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A Song like Adele’s

Adele’s song Someone Like You has won both a Grammy and lots of lively speculation as to why people feel moved to tears when they hear it. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that referenced a study by John Sloboda that found people experienced emotional reactions to music when it contained appoggiaturas, a musical device whose definition seems to be as hotly debated as the science and rationale behind the article itself.

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Business Owners Hopeful But Not Crazy

Forget Jeremy Lin. The hottest question of the week was, "Are entrepreneurs feeling optimistic?" One good thing about being the soul of free enterprise, the best hope of innovation, and the lone source of new job creation in the U.S. economy: It makes people attentive to your moods

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Making Corporate Wellness Fun

Social gaming and wellness start-up Keas raises $6.5 million after a change in direction yields results.

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Is the iPad 3 Coming in Early 2012?

Here's what the rumors say about when it's coming and what to expect. Start placing your bets now. According to widespread rumors and speculation, a new iPad 3 might come out next year, probably in March

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Does the "Goddamn" Higgs Particle Portend the End of Physics?

What does it say about particle physics that the Higgs boson has generated so much hullaballoo lately? Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have reportedly glimpsed “ tantalizing hints ” of the Higgs, which might confer mass to quarks, electrons and other building blocks of our world.

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Question for Job Creators: What Is A Good Job?

As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. Among the many by-products of their efforts is job creation.

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Be Known as a Groundbreaking Thinker

Everyone has ideas; it's how you execute them that will get you noticed. Adopting these five principles will help. Would you like to be seen as a groundbreaker and a visionary?

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Entrepreneurship Surges

Despite a drop in venture capital investment in the third quarter, venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang says he is seeing a surge in entrepreneurial activity. Total dollars invested through venture capital dropped 12 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, according to an October report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association. While the venture capital market is up so far this year relative to 2010, the drop-off in the third quarter is likely related to the general uncertainty in financial markets.

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How to Win Google’s Backing

Want Googles money? A sweet spot for Google Ventures managing partner is where the cloud meets genome sequencing. Want Google’s money

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