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Flipboard's Hit iPhone App Is All By Design

A week after launching the app, Flipboard's racked up a million downloads and tripled their engagement (measured in "flips per month"). "Every industry, every type of business we think about needs to be fundamentally reinvented in the face of social," cofounder Evan Doll tells us.READ»

The Case For Girls: A Mock Ad Aims To Become A Legitimate Campaign With Global Impact

For Fast Company's "Case for Girls" package, several advertising agencies came up with mock ads as a response for the rampant cultural preference for baby boys over baby girls. One agency, AKQA, hopes to transform their campaign for Chinese women from a thought experiment into the real deal with a new website, a gripping video, and the push for a mobilizing event in March 2012. READ»

From The Editor: Design Of Things To Come

.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Benjamin Lowy I was visiting with Nike CEO Mark Parker at his company's Beaverton, Oregon, headquarters last summer when I asked him if he ...READ»

iFive: Twitter And Bin Laden, Huge Facebook Income, 10 Million Credit Cards Says Sony, MIT Earns Donation, Time iPad Apps Freed

It's a fresh week, so get a fresh start on the early news by reading iFive--our summary:READ»

Close Reading Al Qaeda's Latest Jihadist Women's eMagazine (Yes, Latest)

Tips on how to meet a terrorist husband? Ideas for keeping your skin beautiful underneath a niqab? Poetry about the Holy War? Enter the bizarre world of Al Qaeda's newest Cosmo-like magazine for women.READ»

Flipboard Upgrade Boosts Speed, Integrates Social Search and Instagram

Flipboard, the popular news aggregator/browser app, just got a significant makeover that boosts speed and includes Instagram support and a clever social search. Let the news-browser wars begin. READ»

AOL's Editions: A New Digital Magazine That Aims to Be "Like Pandora for Content"

The upcoming iPad app is designed to deliver news in a new, interactive way. Can it challenge existing apps such as Flipboard and help return AOL to relevance?READ»

The Beyond Petroleum Generation

CJ Warner is not the only high-ranking executive to have quit BP to join a much smaller renewable-energy company.READ»

• Former BP Exec Cynthia Warner Left Big Oil for Big Algae - And She's Not Alone
• Algae Fuel's Pioneers

Warner Music Artists and Execs Find New Ways to Get Creative on the Web

Warner music and its artists get creative online.READ»

• Take Us to the River

Zilch: Get What You Want for Nothing

How to profit by behaving like a not-for-profit.READ»

• Do Something: Six Tips to Reinvent Non-Profits

Team Coordination Is Key in Businesses

Dan Heath and Chip Heath explain why we tend to neglect coordination -- and suggest how to fix it.READ»

• Made to Stick: Hold the Interview
• Made to Stick: Presentations that Stick

The Mango Store Lets You Bank Without Commitment

The Mango store lets people without a bank deposit checks, talk finances, and withdraw money -- without ever opening an account.READ»

• Infographic: Banking Gone Wild
• Tips for Securing Online and Mobile Banking

WeCU Technologies Advances Airport Security

A new airport-security system uses physiological signals, including rapid eye movements and heightened body temperature, to identify risky passengers.READ»

Evernote CEO Phil Libin's 3 Steps to "Freemium" Success

The "freemium" business model really can work. Look no further than Evernote.READ»

Rob Forbes Plugs "Evolutionary" Public D 3-Speed Bicycle

If you had asked Rob Forbes a few years ago to recommend a good city bike, he would have said, "Get a used bike from the 1960s." Today, Forbes, who founded furniture retailer Design Within Reach and now heads the design shop Studio ...READ»

How to Make a Great Web-Curated Summer Meal

Seasonal pleasure in every Web-ordered bite.READ»

B330-Rx Golf Ball Designed for Average Players

Bridgestone Golf designs a ball for the rest of us.READ»

• The Business of Golf

2010's Best Designed Products

The winners of the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards can help you ride the waves, grill a burger, catch varmints, and save the earth.READ»

• IDEA 2010 at FastCoDesign.com
• Method Laundry Detergent With SmartClean Technology
• Easy Latrine