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Mike Tyson, App Maker: "I Don't Want To Be A Dinosaur"

Mike Tyson's entered the next phase of his career: creative consultant for the wildly successful iPhone game, "Mike Tyson: Main Event." And while plenty of celebrities lend their names to products, Tyson tells Fast Company he's poured his heart into this one--and found kindred spirits among hardcore gamers.READ»

Crowdstory's Audio Easter Egg Hunt

A new student startup lets you leave behind miniature stories everywhere you go. In the process, it might just help create a little tech hub in an unexpected place: Oklahoma.READ»

SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: "Machete"'s Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez, and Some Slightly Creepy Clay

What's cooler than Danny Trejo as a knife-wielding outlaw in Machete? Danny Trejo as a knife-wielding outlaw...rendered in clay.READ»

Urban Graffiti Knitters Are the New, Cozier Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Welcome to the quirky world of "graffiti knitting," a global movement of several hundred artists dedicated to adorning otherwise stoic effigies of urban life--lampposts, statues, mailboxes--with knitted scarves, animals, and wraps. READ»

On Pom Wondeful, Morgan Spurlock, and My Brand

Call me behind the times, but I'd never seriously considered cultivating my brand. It took 17 years working in print media and an assignment covering Morgan Spurlock's "Greatest Movie Ever Sold" to figure it out. READ»

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SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: Designing Careers That Don't Yet Exist

Reddit's Alexis Ohanian, @TheRecruiterGuy's Chris Hoyt, and Behance's Scott Belsky talk about the importance of shower time, living with your parents, and "dangerous engagement," among other things--in a SXSW panel moderated by Fast Company's Anya KamenetzREAD»

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SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: GroupMe, Privacy, and Getting "Zucked With"

GroupMe founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht joined Fast Company on stage to talk about the NYC startup scene, acquisitions, paying engineers, challenges of a noisy mobile market, plus Zuck and privacy. READ»

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SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: Groupon Client Airs Beefs and Benefits of the Daily Deal Service

Frank Gruber, CEO and Co-founder of Tech Cocktail, and Travis Kalanick, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who runs online car service Uber--and is a Groupon client--responds to the company's presentation at SXSW, taking the opportunity to call them out for shoddy service. When Groupon's SVP of sales stands up in the audience to respond, things get interesting. READ»

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AIGA Launches Design for Good, Asking Members to Donate 5% of Their Time to Social and Civic Causes

How the design association is advocating on behalf of designers in government, business, and society--plus how AIGA helped Gap rethink their disastrous crowdsourced logo idea.READ»

Wanted: The Bag o' 4G That Whips HD Video to the Cloud

With 14 networked cellular connections and an onboard PC, LiveU's mobile video uplink might mean a lot more local news vans for sale on Craigslist.READ»

Welcome to CNN's New Digital Playground: TV Everywhere!

From Video Commenting to iReport Integration, mobile consumers and videophiles are about to have a lot more on-the-go options from CNN.com--and presumably others to come.READ»

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Macheen's "Hot" PCs Give a Whole New Meaning to the Internets

Simpler, always-on wireless connections will make gadgets cheaper and make the Web ala carte.READ»

Why PayPal Doesn't Care About NFC

Some of SXSW's hottest startups say they're here to help small businesses compete, but eBay execs say those merchants want something else entirely.READ»

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The Messy, Fragmented World of Group Messaging Apps

If SXSW serves as a barometer of hot trends in tech, then group messaging and texting apps are one of the hottest--even by Austin, Texas, standards. Are they worth the hype?READ»

LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age

Reid Hoffman, angel investor, co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person, took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. ...READ»

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SXSW Panel 2011: Tech Cocktail Talks About What's Next for Marketing

Fast Company spoke to Frank Gruber from Tech Cocktail about what trends we can expect in the future from social marketing.READ»

PepsiCo to Coke: Our 100% PlantBottle Is 70% Plantier Than Your PlantBottle

Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.READ»

What Felicia Day Left Out of Her Web Video SXSW 2011 Keynote

Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations. READ»