When the founding fathers of the New York Stock Exchange (and, yes, they were all men) gathered under
a buttonwood tree on Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, 216 years ago, they could not have imagined that their efforts would help ...READ»
My grandmother turned 92 a couple of months ago. While her short-term memory isn't great, she can describe in detail growing up in the 1920s. It is amazing how much has changed in her lifetime. Commercial air travel. Computers. ...READ»
When staff writer Anya Kamenetz and her husband, an engineer at Google, went on their honeymoon, they set aside a week to volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Pune, India. The hospice, it turned out, desperately wanted its own Web site. ...READ»
On Sunday, June 25, Fast Company contributor Anya Kamenetz will appear on Business Talk Radio’s “Business of Success” program.
Between 12-2 p.m., Kamenetz will discuss The Network Unbound, a feaqture in the June issue that ...READ»
Fast Company contributor Anya Kamenetz will appear on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” at 12:35 p.m. ET today to discuss the ”The Network Unbound" feature on the business use of social network services in the June issue.
Join us if ...READ»
Alessandra Petlin
When photographer Alessandra Petlin thought about shooting Adam Werbach for this issue's cover story, she says, "I immediately had this image in my mind of a soaring stand of smooth, beautiful trees, and the ...READ»
Early bird alert! Tomorrow morning at 4:40 a.m. ET, Fast Company's Michael Prospero will appear on ABC's "World News This Morning." The topic? "The Network Unbound," Anya Kamenetz's article on next generation social networks in the ...READ»
In a speech today at Fresno State University, John McCain proposed a $300 million government prize for the development of an alternative car battery. He called for a more efficient and affordable battery than those currently powering ...READ»
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Fast Company staff writer Anya Kamenetz did Power Lunch with CNBC yesterday and discussed her cover story, A Is for App, about the smartphone revolution and its effect on kids as young as 18 months. Read ...READ»
Going Local
When Henry Kissinger quipped, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," he wasn't talking about electric utilities. But readers deluged us with email and online comments about staff writer Anya Kamenetz's July/August article ...READ»
Texan Trees"Carbon Boom" (July/August) addressed the idea of offsetting greenhouse- gas emissions by preserving forests, largely in tropical regions like Brazil and Indonesia. Now the so-called forest carbon trade has come ...READ»
Like many teenagers, my son spends a ton of time on his computer. His passion is designing icons to personalize a desktop or iPhone interface. He posts sets of these icons online for people to download. He doesn't get paid for any of ...READ»
This Month's Cover Story: Boy Wonder: How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign , by Ellen McGirt, page 58
The untold story of how Chris Hughes, at the tender age of 25, helped create two of the most ...READ»
Want to see how an innovative city of the future is created? Join us for our Fast Cities panel on June 22 at the Washington Inn in Oakland, California. A variety of speakers, including Fast Company's own Anya Kamenetz; Ian Kim, ...READ»
An illuminated wedding dress and RFID teacups that can control videos are just two of Alison Lewis's tech-infused DIY projects, which involve clothing, home accessories, and small electronics and can be found in her book and blog.READ»
For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.READ»
What would happen if you took the principles of a startup incubator like Y Combinator and applied it to improving education? A new philanthropic venture called Startl aims to find out. The non-profit startup accelerator is being ...READ»
In the two weeks following the publication of "Look Who's Curing Cancer" (May), about IBM's campaign to recruit the public to volunteer their idle computers for medical research, World Community Grid added 11,000 computers, the ...READ»
Ever wondered how to...well, anything? Welcome to Howcast, offering instructional videos on everything from tying a sailor's knot to decorating a cake. FastCompany.com spoke with Howcast cofounder Darlene Liebman.READ»
