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A new Muppet named Lily has found her way to special edition of "Sesame Street" called "Growing Hope Against Hunger." The character will talk to the show's young viewers about poverty, hunger and the insecurities they might have over their family's ability to have enough to eat. Erica Hill talks to Lily and Dr

From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

As storms become more powerful and more damaging, will living on the coasts become simply impossible? Insurance companies might try to price you out before we find out.

Today is a first: Apple's first major launch event in the post-Jobs era. Scheduled for 10 a.m. PST, Apple is hosting what has become an annual event; the ushering in of this year's latest iPhone.

The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?

So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another way.

Breaking news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon's Android Tablet Revealed . Moments before an official press event, Amazon executives revealed details about the company's long-expected tablet PC: It's called Kindle Fire, as rumored, and is a 7-inch color LCD machine that lacks 3G, a camera, and a microphone, but comes with Wi-Fi like its older Kindle e-reader cousins

Small businesses are pessimistic because of lack of demand for their products and expected increases in health care costs. Thanks to growing economic uncertainty, small-business confidence has fallen to a two-year low, according to new research

Box CEO Aaron Levie understands that the less time you spend tied to your desk, the more connected you need to be.

How Eric Ryan of Method created a strong culture An offbeat culture and an obsession with product design helped turn Method, a San Francisco-based soapmaker, into a $100 million company. In a new book, The Method Method, co-founders Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry lay out their approach to creating a company in which flash mobs and dance parties are routine occurrences.

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And if they are, can they ever make a successful CEO? If you've ever started a company, you might have a disorder. That's the thesis of the Inc

[ Editor's note: This excerpt from The Quants, by Scott Patterson (Crown Business, 2010), describes the 2006 Wall Street Poker Night Tournament, which featured professional poker players T. J. Cloutier and Clonie Gowen.

Yahoo blocked emails related to the ongoing protests on Wall Street.

SAFEPED is a traffic simulator that takes into account how human beings make predictions about speed and distance, so planners can see exactly where people are going to run into the street.