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Amazon's Challenge to Business: Turn Off Your Datacenter

Whenever we interview startups (which will be often here on FastCompany.TV) we hear "we're an Amazon shop" quite frequently. What does that mean? Well, for photosharing service SmugMug it means saving a ton of money by having Amazon ...READ»

The final act of a trade show

Three things companies should do after an eventREAD»

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Oracle Spends $7.4 Billion to Buy Sun, Now Rivals IBM

Oracle Corp surprised many observers by forking over approximately $7.4 billion to buy Sun Microsystems, thus moving instantly into the hardware business. It's the closing move in a game where Sun spent months looking for a buyer, ...READ»

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The Cloud Profiteers: Syncplicity and the New iPhone

Over the last year, Web 2.0 became cloudy. Yes, once upon a time, Sergey and Larry defined their vision for Google as an effort “to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible.” As a result of this ...READ»

the line

i've noticed my online communications are stratifying between my social and techie relationships.  neither group has a particular interest in the other. once upon a time we went to work do "do our jobs" and came ...READ»