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As former president and CEO of the Cleveland Browns--a hapless football team in one of America’s unluckiest sports cities--John Collins knows that fans are a fickle bunch. But to the National Football League, the Browns' annual disappointments never matter all that much, at least in this sense: If (and when) the Browns miss the playoffs, locals still watch football games, and still plan a Super Bowl party.

If the NFL and NBC can successfully stream the wildly popular, three-hour-plus Super Bowl live via Verizon’s mobile network on February 5th the event could usher in a whole new level of demand for high-speed wireless bandwidth. The U.S

Forget slashing prices and big ad campaigns. With just a few days left, here's how to max your sales in three easy steps. Black Friday is almost upon us and the big box stores are gearing up for the usual insanity

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These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor?

At the Designer Fund’s first Designer Fair, IDEO’s Elle Luna explains how brands are increasingly seeking to gain customers and build loyalty by showing their human side. Want to build your brand? Traditionally that’s meant a lot of chest thumping

Do "likes" and retweets add up to sales? Who knows

Legendary ad man John Hegarty offers some advice for advertisers and marketers who are trying to navigate the future of the business. Legendary ad man John Hegarty , cofounder and worldwide creative director of international agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty , knows something about building great brands

John Schmitt opted to self-fund his employees' medical claims, and saw his company health insurance costs drop 20 percent. John Charles Schmitt II , who heads up Plans for Professionals, a 300-person life insurance firm in Orange, Connecticut, used to work with Connecticut Blue Cross and Blue Shield to cover his employee health insurance costs. But as premiums rose and new healthcare guidelines started to come into effect, even Schmitt—who played ten football seasons with the Jets, won the 1969 Super Bowl with quarterback Joe Namath and had 16 operations due to football injuries—became nervous.

As Cannes judges shortlist their Lions, we talk with creatives about the key decisions that helped them transform their visions into award-worthy campaigns. Here's how Deutsch L.A. EVP/Group Creative Director Michael Kadin used a Super Bowl spot for Volkswagen to create a great disturbance in The Force.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Groupon Dumps Trump Groupon pulls ads from Donald Trump's Apprentice website, saying it had gotten calls from customers upset about Trump's ongoing political circus .

An inside look at X Prize's all-star brainstorming session. The X Prize Foundation has grabbed A-list investors and CNN headlines for their industry-creating multi-million dollar innovation competitions, from commercial space travel to oil-spill cleanup .

As applications for the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 arrive, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

When a frigid cold wave knocked out 50 power plants in Texas during February's Super Bowl week, utilities had to impose rolling blackouts across entire communities with a "blunt ax," said Robert Shapard, CEO of Dallas-based Oncor, the state's largest transmission company.