Topic: Googleplex

Google Grabs State Dept. Star Jared Cohen for Foreign Policy "Think/Do Tank"

The youngest ever member of the Policy Planning staff showed the State Department how to use technology for diplomacy. Now Cohen's going to see if some of the thorniest foreign policy issues can be tackled from the private sector.READ»

Google on Facebook-Bing Social Search: What, Us Worry?

A day after the Bing-Facebook alliance that all but slapped them in the face, Google executives say they're getting their social search on too.READ»

Google Instant Redefines Your ABCs

A is for AOL. B is for Bank of America. C is for Craigslist. Say what? Presenting the default search results of New Google -- in rhyming couplets.READ»

Six Steps to a Successful Entrepreneurial Community

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.  Who creates them? According to the Kauffman Foundation, most jobs are created by new businesses. We need those jobs, and we need those businesses. And they can't be developed in a vacuum.  Everyone ...READ»

Google's Minnie Ingersoll Talks Fiber, Workplace Perks, and Surfing

Ingersoll and Google's Alternate Access team are working on creating next-generation broadband networks -- featuring speeds up to 100 times today's standard -- to spur the coming wave of online innovation.READ»

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• Where's Next: South America's East Coast

Exclusive: Google Goes to Jail for April Fools?

Sorry to spoil the fun, Googlers, but one of your own just sneaked us a peek at your April Fool's Day prank: Google Jail. That or, um, Google is far more sinister (and naive) than we ever imagined ... Nah!READ»

Face-Off: TED Talks vs. FORA.tv

Miss TED or some other egghead confab? Watch it online! Inside the battle to build a Web-video destination for smart grown-ups.READ»

Switch: Don't Solve Problems--Copy Success

An exclusive book excerpt by Fast Company columnists Chip Heath and Dan Heath, best-selling authors of Made to Stick.READ»

To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up

That is the question in Silicon Valley as the acquisitions market heats up. And with it, another head scratcher: Are acquisitions good for anyone?READ»

Chrome OS Is Still Not an Attack on Windows

Google's OS was sneak peeked today at the Googleplex. The Wall Street Journal digital called it a "direct challenge to Microsoft Windows." Really? Let's clear up some confusion once and for all: Putting the word "OS" after something ...READ»

6 Ways Google Has Greened Its Main Campus

Google has made waves in the greentech world with its multi-million dollar geothermal and solar power investments, its plans to build a wave-powered data center, and its proclamation that it wants to make clean energy cheaper than ...READ»

Google Unveils New Search Powers, Speeds Towards Live Data

Google unveiled a suite of new functions for its search engine yesterday, and there's some evidence that the company is chasing down live data for its search query responses. There's also a new functionality that seems designed to ...READ»

Google, Apple May Suffer Anti-Trust Action for Sharing Board Members

Apple and Google may have more in common than the Federal Trade Commission would like. The companies share two members of their board of directors, Eric Schmidt and Arthur Levinson. According to antitrust laws, the presence of ...READ»

Google Rents Goats to Replace Lawnmowers and Fertilizer

First we learned that Bayer Health rented 1,450 sheep to graze grass on its Richmond, California campus. Now Google has informed us that they are taking a similar approach to landscaping by renting goats from California Grazing to ...READ»

Google's Cost Cutting Pays off with Rise in Profits

Google surprised analysts this morning with a 9% increase in profit in the first quarter of 2009. The good news is likely a product of Google's aggressive cost-cutting measures, which ranged from axing unprofitable programs to ...READ»

Google's Lead Designer Doug Bowman Leaves for Twitter, Cites "Paralyzing" Lack of Design Focus

After three years as visual design lead at Google, designer Doug Bowman consumed his last free lunch at the Googleplex on Friday, and the word on the street is that he's heading to Twitter. But why leave Google, with an audience ...READ»

The Frenemy Relationship in Business

The friend-enemy relationship (aka friend-foe, or "froe") has become essential to business -- a thrillingly intricate dance that would impress even Bruno and Carrie Ann. Imagine Apple without the record labels, Google without Yahoo, and Harvey Weinstein without everyone else. The relationship can be so baffling, we humbly offer this field guide.READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

Feedback

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies / Our March cover story -- and particularly our choice of Google as the most innovative company of the year -- got a heated reception. There were complaints ("Your latest issue reads like a ...READ»

• The Untipping Point

No. 1...For Now

Google, which earned the top spot in this year's Fast 50, is like no other company I’ve visited in ten years at Fast Company, and I’ve explored the inner workings of some of the most creative organizations out there--from Dell ...READ»

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The faces and voices of the world's most innovative company. READ»

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

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• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Facebook is the "It" Company of 2007

41 million users and growing. The cool spot for coders. The hot place to test a business. The "it" company of 2007.READ»

Citizen Media: The High School Years

A yearbook portrait of the citizen-journalist upstarts trying to rule the media school. READ»

The Builder

The man behind the new "Googleplex" and a long list of eye-popping interiors. READ»