What's the Big Deal About BYD?

Wouldn't it be great if China, land of cheap products, could bring us a low-cost, well-made electric sedan? We certainly thought so when we named China's BYD as one of our Most Innovative Companies earlier this year. Warren Buffett ...READ»

Update

Fast Deals Some of the 50 Most Innovative Companies we cited in March have found one another as intriguing as we did. We named Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the supersimple Flip digital video recorders, No. 7; that month, ...READ»

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Nintendo Goes to School: DS Classroom Turns Handheld Console Into Teaching Tool

Nintendo, never content to create gaming products that are simply for gaming, is taking its portable DS system to school. Partnering with program developer Sharp System Products, the company that turned the Wii into a home gym is ...READ»

Fast 50 Updates

Thirty-three of the companies on last year's Fast Company 50 didn't make the list this time. But that doesn't mean they've lost their luster. Here's what they've been up to.READ»

Announcing the Fast 50 Reader Favorites of 2008

Every year, Fast Company magazine releases their Fast 50, the fifty most innovative companies doing business. And every year, since I've been working here, FastCompany.com asks users to submit their own suggestions of who the most ...READ»

The Fast 50 Reader Favorites of 2008

You nominated companies. You rated them. You commented on them. In the end, we have the 50 companies that you, our readers, have chosen as the most innovative.READ»

• The 2008 Fast 50

Boeing's 787 Leaves Us Hanging

In our Fast 50 issue, we praised Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner for its lightweight construction and streamlined design--features that contribute to the aircraft's remarkable fuel efficiency. The interior of the plane is roomy, with ...READ»

Innovation Guru Dev Patnaik's Take on the Fast 50

Is Chipotle a one-trick pony? Is dependable Safeway actually more innovative than trendy Whole Foods? Should we have jettisoned AirAsia to make room for Virgin Galactic? Innovation expert Dev Patnaik thinks so. Fast Company's ...READ»

Fast 50 Face-off: A Conversation with Innovation Guru Dev Patnaik

Innovation specialist Dev Patnaik of Jump Associates on which companies were ingenuity champs and which ones needed to "kick it up a notch."READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies

Fast Talking

If you look at the top ten of the Fast 50, the world's most innovative companies, these are the companies that have got buzz working for that. Nintendo and the success of it Wii game console has been all over the media. Apple's ...READ»