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The Birth Of An Idea: Ads To Rebrand Girls

Fast Company asked several of the most creative ad agencies in the world to rebrand baby girls. Their mock campaigns recast girls as the No. 1 choice for consumers from China to the U.S.READ»

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Google+ Open To All, Personalized Sports Radio From ESPN And Slacker,"Minority Report" Ads In-Bound, Facebook's "Want" Button

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. READ»

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Apple Shares Soar, China Tightens Net Access, EMI Exec Loves Pirates, HTC Wants Apple IP Chat, Google On "Real Names" Fiasco

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors.READ»

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Foursquare's $600M Valuation, Give The Onion A Pulitzer Or Glenn Beck Might Cry, Google Instantly Responds To FTC

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of people and companies making moves in your space. Updated all day by FastCompany.com's editors.READ»

Facebook Paying Users For Ad Views: The Good, The Bad, and The Psychologically Ugly

Facebook will start paying users to watch some ads, but the outcomes could be more twisted than they realize.READ»

Facebook Pays For Ad Views, Video Games Are Officially Art, Bendable Phones, And More...

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ»

AOL Revenue Tanks, Gigwalk Is A Foursquare For Temp Jobs, IP Addresses Don't Prove Guilt, And More...

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ»

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Google's Click-To-Call Spurs Big-Ticket-Item Buying Spree

Google's mobile ads let consumers click a phone number and immediately call an advertiser. You'd be surprised who's using it.READ»

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iFive: Nokia Slashes Workforce, Amazon Cloud Data Loss, YouTube Movies Delayed, iTunes Cloud To Cost, Mobile Ads Work

A lot has been happening in the world already today--find out exactly what in our early news roundup:READ»

Captchas Now 100% More Annoying With Video Ads

Sure, we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans, not bots. But they're about to get way more horrible. Thanks to moves by a firm called NuCaptcha, those boxes you see may soon contain unavoidable video ads.READ»

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iFive: Twitter Kills QuickBar, Skype's Mac App Comp., Samsung's NFC Plans, Acer Wants to Be Apple, Google's Face Recognition

Due to a flood of terrible fake news stories online for April Fool's Day, we've canceled iFive this morning. Meanwhile, click through for a selection of easy listening...READ»

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iFive: Facebook's Groupon, iPad 2 Sells Well, No NFC in iPhone 5, Stumbleupon Adds Paid Ads, AT&T Caps DSL Downloads

A new week is here. Let us help you shake off the sleepy weekend with a summary of the early news:READ»

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Skype Dials for Dollars With In-App Ads

Skype just revealed something new--it's adopting in-app adverts. Don't worry, they won't interfere with your "Skype experience."READ»

Meebo Buys Mindset for Ad Targeting, but What the Heck Is Psychographics?

Social media-sharing experts Meebo have just forked over an undisclosed sum to buy ad-targeting experts Mindset. These innovative guys eschew demographic profiling, and use psychographic targeting to understand consumers instead. But...what exactly is that?READ»

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iFive: Microsoft's Finances, U.S. Ends India Embargo, Facebook's Groupon, Twitter's Ads Expand, Daily iPad Newspaper App

Enjoyed the State of the Union address? Great--now enjoy our early State of the Tech World news summary: READ»

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iFive: Al-Jazeera Document Leak, McDonald's Wireless Payments, 3-D Going Mobile, Zynga Gets Facebook Exec, Mahalo's Reinvention

Welcome to a new week! Let us help get you off to a running start with iFive, our summary of the early innovation news:READ»

Apple-Verizon Deal Heralds a Future Free of Carrier Crapware, Possibly

For years cell phone carriers have loved to shovel "added value" systems into the phones they sell, with the real goal of capturing more cash and controlling how their users exploit particular services. Does the crapware-free Verizon iPhone promise an end to this?READ»

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Hulu’s Kilar: We’re Going to Make You Love Ads

Commercials will be an inevitable part of online television, says Jason Kilar. Here are three ways Hulu is trying to make them better.READ»