American Express, sensitive to the fast-moving winds blowing change into the digital payments scene, is investing $100 million to ensure its role in the future.READ»
E La Carte makes 7-inch tablets that are designed specifically to help restaurants do better business. Easy, in the age of the iPad? Yes--but they beat it to existence by years, and just earned one of Lightbank's biggest investments to date.READ»
Fresh from injecting cash into a reviving MySpace, JT's also pushed money into augmented reality firm Dekko. It's in stealth mode, but here's what we know.READ»
Spending on renewable energy is at an all-time high around the world, and in some of the poorest places on Earth, it may mean leapfrogging over dirty power sources in favor of clean ones.READ»
Post quake, Google finds its place in Japan. "Hey, I'm a Mac, I'm off to college!" New investment puts Twitter at $8 billion. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»
One of the companies run
by an investment fund housed at the University of Michigan has filed for an S-1
at the SEC, meaning that it soon will be launching an IPO.
Intelepeer maps
the IP address world to the dial-up home space ...READ»
The company specializes in non-invasive, wireless brain-recording tech. And its first round of funding is bigger than Google's and Facebook's first-round investments combined. Here's why.READ»
Ex-Digg brainiac Kevin Rose has got a new baby: Milk. It's an idea incubator, specifically behaving like a development lab for "out there" ideas. It's targeting the mobile Net. And it's got some distinguishing features.READ»
As Verizon begins throttling the access of its heaviest mobile data users ahead of the iPhone launch, a new study predicts that smartphones could drive networks into the red in just three years, unless they innovate.READ»
Growing pains: Internet startups feel them too--and in a big way, when they're valued in billions. Among Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, and Zynga, who will first become a man? (Yes, we push the bar mitzvah metaphor, but we didn't start it!)READ»
Apple analysts on Wall Street are under increased SEC scrutiny for insider trading, centered on the "normal" habit of channel checks--working out what Apple may be up to by speaking to its suppliers. Is this unfair? Or are the analysts really cheating?READ»
LG, yes the same LG whose logo may be stamped somewhere on your HDTV or cell phone, has just announced it's entering the water treatment business. It's for the good of people, and for LG's bottom line.READ»
The U.S. is facing a dichotomy about business with China: It's more than happy to invest billions of dollars there to build smartphones and netbooks ... but it's super-wary of letting China invest in the U.S. READ»
Oil is spilling uncontrollably off our coast. Fingers are being pointed and blame is shifting from one party to another. Some politicians are grandstanding and most aren’t doing enough.This is a horrible mess. It is also a great ...READ»
Palm's safely in HP's hands now, but for several years it's been financially boosted by U2 frontman Bono's company Elevation Partners. With their involvement wrapped up, the rocker's financial experiment fared okay, but just okay ...READ»
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