While you were sleeping, innovation was doing great things--including delivering your BBC iPlayer-read iPad a day early if you live in Europe. Hurrah!
1. Open memo to Hollywood studios. If you're going to kvetch about piracy, then ...READ»
I am wondering if the focus on sustainability in corporate advertising, relative to the lower weighting in product advertising indicates a perception on behalf of companies that consumers really don’t care much. READ»
Fast Company has received hundreds of suggestion for fixing the Gulf oil spill, but this one stood out. Its author earned masters and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in mechanical engineering, doing his thesis projects in the MIT Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. READ»
What happened last night, between counting sheep and opening your eyes? Innovation, that's what.
1. President Obama, who's cancelled a trip to Asia because of the Gulf oil disaster, has been using his solar-powered calculator ...READ»
A modicum of good news on the BP spill front: After weeks of failed attempts at slowing the flow of oil from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company successfully cut off the damaged portion of the riser pipe and put a ...READ»
Oystermen, fishermen, and shrimpers around Apalachicola Bay--where seafood is an $80 million a year business--share thoughts about their drastically altered lives, the reason for their overfishing, and the Faustian bargain that's been struck with BP.READ»
A defaced sign at the site of a May 28th protest in New York City
We were relieved last week when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into BP's involvement in ...READ»
Morning, campers. While you were sleeping innovation was stealing a march on you. Here's what's been going on:1. Catch Steve Jobs' WWDC10 keynote in its entirety here. Marvel at the picture quality of iPhone 4 and its "retina ...READ»
Search any of these phrases on Google: oil spill, BP, or Deepwater Horizon. Take a look at the sponsored link on top of the page. It doesn't direct you towards, say, an oil disaster recovery group or news about the spill's impact on ...READ»
Keep a bowl of salt beside you while reading this, just in case, but a man claiming to be behind the hilarious and cutting @BPGlobalPR Twitter account has written an article describing his motives and how @BPGlobalPR is helping out monetarily.READ»
James Cameron, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, newspapers, professionals and probably your mom have proposed solutions to the Gulf crisis. Could this kind of group think really work?READ»
Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi shores have already been hit with oil from the BP disaster, and now Florida residents are gearing up for the inevitable arrival of the slick stuff on the beaches of Pensacola sometime this week. ...READ»
The first stage of Operation Top Kill seems to have worked, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which claims that the wellhead has been "stabilized" with drill fluid blocking the escaping oil and gas. "They've been able to stabilize ...READ»
After weeks of watching as the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast
destroys local communities and wildlife, Obama is finally getting tough
on offshore drilling--and BP's role in creating this disaster. In
a speech this afternoon, Obama ...READ»
Only one week after unveiling three plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) charging stations in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the submission of a permit application to bring renewable ocean energy off the city's ...READ»
A makeshift Oil-Man Scarecrow was placed along the road
on the way to Grand Isle, La., complete with respirator, X’ed-out eyes,
and an oily fish in hand. Image by Ryan Marshall for FastCompany.com. BP's COO Doug Suttles has ...READ»
We may have had three days off this weekend, but the news doesn't sleep. Here's what's been going on while you've been barbecue-ing your steaks--and we Brits have been sheltering under umbrellas turned inside-out by the biting north ...READ»
Another day, another piece of news about how BP plans to heroically stop the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This time around, the oil company is cutting and capping the leaking well head with an ...READ»
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating BP for any criminal and civil wrongdoing related to the thousands of gallons of crude oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico following a April 20 rupture at the Deepwater Horizon well, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced at a news conference in New Orleans today.READ»
For Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the tourist season along the Gulf of Mexico, Fast Company visited Grand Isle, La., where oil from the gushing BP well in the Gulf of Mexico made landfall.READ»
