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Updates On Kevin Systrom, Lady Gaga, And More Most Creative People Alumni

Before you soak up all the creativity of 2012’s Most Creative People in Business, take a look at the moves some of our Most Creative alumni have been making--the good, the bad, and the ugly.READ MORE

Three Things Magic Johnson's New Cable Network Can Learn From Oprah's OWN Flops

Magic Johnson is launching Aspire, a cable network of uplifting programming. It comes as Oprah Winfrey's positivity-focused OWN nears two years of dismal ratings. So, do we hate happy TV? Is Aspire doomed? An industry expert ...READ MORE

Friendship Day

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Dismissed Oprah Network Chief Christina Norman Was Ambivalent From The Start [Video]

Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded network is a lot like a small startup, full of twists and turns. In the latest twist a week later, Norman herself has been let go. READ MORE

What The Scandal Of "Three Cups of Tea" Author Greg Mortenson Is Really About

Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing.READ MORE

Most Innovative Companies: Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org on Fixing Education

This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies. We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.READ MORE

Only 17% of Americans Would Trade Places With Steve Jobs, 10% With Mark Zuckerberg

Who would you to trade places with, if you could have any job in the world? Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and Barack Obama top a new survey on the world's most sought-after jobs.READ MORE

Most Wanted Bosses: Mark Zuckerberg Ranks Low, Oprah High

A new poll suggests Mark Zuckerberg, Simon Cowell, and Tony Hayward are far from ideal bosses.READ MORE

Alice for iPad Co-Creator Chris Stevens on Risk and Rabbit Holes

Londoner Chris Stevens, founder of creative iPad app design firm Atomic Antelope found the idea for Alice for iPad at the bottom of a pitch black rabbit hole. It was a little more than a year ago. He and his partner had trotted out a ...READ MORE

The Nexus of Hollywood and the Internet? Munn's the Word

Ashton. Oprah. Britney. Martha. The single-name celebrities in the offline world who have parlayed their fame into huge followings online is no secret. But other entertainers are using social media to amplify a Web following to ...READ MORE

Everybody Look Under Your Seats--It's the Official Oprah iPhone App!

At long last, Oprah fanatics (Foprahtics? Needs work.) can spend two bucks on an iPhone app that will provide Oprah-related entertainment even while away from a television or computer. The weirdest part: it's kind of...impressive.READ MORE

The Oprah Effect in Search

Why Oprah Winfrey owns youREAD MORE

Seven Big Names to Watch This Week

Stephen Colbert Goes Iraqi Late night faux-newsman Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting four shows from Baghdad, Iraq next week in a USO tour entitled, "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando." Colbert is ...READ MORE

60% of Twitterers Quit After a Month, but Does It Matter?

Some new data from Nielsen Online suggests that Twitter has a retention rate of just 40% after one month of usage--60% of users leave. This is despite Twitter's growth in user numbers, including its adoption by celebrities like ...READ MORE

The Seven Coolest Things Online This Week

Sure, you're sick of Twitter, Bush, and bad news about the economy. But this topics still gin up some entertaining news--so check out the related stories that bubbled to the top of the social Web this week. FastCompany.com's best of ...READ MORE

Oprah Hearts Twitter. So What?

Oprah is now officially on Twitter. The Chicago talk show host completed her first tweet just this morning, and is devoting a block of time in her broadcast today to discussing the microblogging site. "HI TWITTERS. THANK ...READ MORE

"Oprah Effect" Boosts Starbucks' Call to Service

The new commander in chief's not-so-secret weapon proved her power yet again yesterday when Oprah sparked President Obama’s call to volunteerism by backing Starbucks’s new “I’m in” campaign.  The initiative promises a free ...READ MORE

Who Are You Really?

Oprah's Book Club has catapulted A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle into the one of the top slots of  Best Sellers at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the USA Today Best Seller List. Advocating her audience read the new non-fiction ...READ MORE