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Fast Company... on the Air!

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»

Editor's Letter: Market Manipulation

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»

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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»

Letter from the Editor: Endless Energy

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»

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Fast Company... on the Air!

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... on the Air!

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»

McCain Proposes $300M Better-Battery Prize

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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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»

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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»

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Fast Company Magazine April 2009 Issue Online

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»

Letter from the Editor: Lessons of the Edupunks

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»

Pop! Till You Drop

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»

Fast Company Traffic Report for January 2009

What was popular on FastCompany.com last month? Click through to find out.READ»

100 Most Creative People in Business: #20 - Dawn Danby

Dawn Danby pops upover a Skype connection on the screen of my computer, holding up her laptop to the camera mounted in another. The machine in her hands shows a screen shot of Ecotect, a building-design program that represents the ...READ»

The Network Unbound

How TagWorld and other next-generation social networks could feed your business--and maybe even change the world.READ»

June Events for Creative Business People

What's happening in June, from Wal-Mart's annual meeting to the World Barista Championships.READ»

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From the Editor of Fast Company: Crude Ideas

What kind of work is most valuable? At this magazine, we tend to talk about ideas and inspiration and management techniques, but less often about the dirty work of getting the job done. Which is why this issue's feature about ...READ»

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Moving Pictures

"If you want to send a message" in Hollywood, the saying goes, "call Western Union." Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work such as Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck--and a growing roster of A-list talent at his side--he's proving that it pays to be pointed.READ»

If Sirius XM Died, No One Would Miss It

Sirius XM [SIRI] is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as Tuesday, due to a $175 million debt maturing this weekend that the company can't pay. If satellite radio as we knew it disappeared, would it really matter? Granted, ...READ»