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It's too good to be true. That's what Andy Rubin was thinking back in 2005. He'd worked for more than a decade at various tech outfits, including a...

In May 2007, nearly six months after he was hired, AOL chief executive Randy Falco gathered his employees together for an "all hands" meeting at the...

"Whatever you do, don't hurt Barack!" It was the afternoon of Super Tuesday, and the Chicago sky threatened snow. Senator Barack Obama had just...

Is Chipotle a one-trick pony? Is dependable Safeway actually more innovative than trendy Whole Foods? Should we have jettisoned AirAsia to make room for Virgin Galactic? Innovation expert Dev...

On a starry night in Los Angeles, there's no shortage of conversation inside a dimly lit Sunset Boulevard restaurant called Eat. On Sunset. Just a few hours ago,...

As you alight from the elevator, you see, at the end of a long, paneled corridor, a huge Wilson Hurley painting of a Mars sunset bleeding from rust to black;...

Peter Shapiro Executive Producer Green Apple Festival New York, New York The...

If you were to ask him yourself, that is, if you could find him in Cuba or Antigua or wherever he's fanning himself with a fistful of $100 bills, Calvin Ayre...

Fast Company announced that it is the recipient of a 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Editor-at-Large Charles Fishman’s article ...

An article in the New York Times earlier this week described an effort by the legendary print magazine Esquire to make “a nod to the digital age” by using something called ...

The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were...

It's not hard to find someone who delights in attacking the show Family Guy. Which isn't a criticism, per se. Much of the animated sitcom's purpose...

On a Southern California summer night at the after party for the MTV Movie Awards, MTV president Van Toffler is acting like all went as planned, smiling and...

"I had this idea that there were going to be these recycling carts all over the country with chips embedded in them," says Ron Gonen, CEO and...

If constructing a presentation can be pure anxiety, then listening to one can be sheer agony. Both sides dread the experience. It's like a breakup talk with...

Jason Biggs, you jerk! I was hot on the trail of a lead -- chasing a truer star than you -- when I had the misfortune of running into your tired, drunken ass. Outside. The Skylight, West Side...

Last week, London’s tabloidy News Of the World broke the story of a handful of AIG executives...

Apple and its ad agency TBWA/Chiat Day are finally bringing the John Hodgman-Alex Bogusky smackdown full circle. As I chronicled in Fast Company's June cover story ...

Nine out of ten people who are employed -- both blacks and whites -- have access to a defined contribution plan such has a 401(k). Of those, 90% of each group contributes regularly. That’s...

Three years after Katrina, the nation's most expensive hurricane, which cost insurers an estimated $44 billion, came Gustav. As if New Orleans needed its rebuilding project to...

Media Molecule, the start-up designers of the do-it-yourself Sony PlayStation 3 videogame LittleBigPlanet, have had an unexpectedly big problem on their hands. When we hung out...

On July 17, 2007, Phil Harrison, Sony's then head of Worldwide Studios, took the stage for what would be his last press conference on behalf of the company at the annual E3...

  David Carr, one of my favorite columnists, points out in today’s ...

Season Two of AMC's smoking-drinking-screwing advertising drama Mad Men ended last night with Sterling Cooper's creative head Don Draper steaming out of a meeting...

It’s still surprising sometimes what surprises people. Two Sundays ago, a first-run episode of Family Guy featured a sequence in which two of the characters, Brian and Stewie, travel...

I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing in Rimini, Italy, although I’d come a quarter the way around the globe to get there; my puzzlement aside, it’s a lovely spot to spend the weekend....

Yesterday MTV launched MTVmusic.com, its first serious iteration of a full-fledged music-video site. It’s been a long time...

As many of you know, I was an early adopter of FriendFeed and have since become something of an addict. Part of the reason is that FriendFeed aggregates all of the content...