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Promoting New England’s Innovation Mojo

I just read an interesting post over on Innovation Economy relating the discussion at a brainstorming session on how to better communicate New England’s contributions in the area of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.  ...READ»

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Fear: The Next Growth Business?

What recession? Last week, at the conference of the American Society for Industrial Security, companies showed off mission-critical technologies and wrestled with the challenges of hypergrowth. A dispatch from the front lines of the anxiety economy.READ»

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Bidding Smart

The CEO of DoveBid offers four rules for auction participants who want to bid smart.READ»

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Galley Slave

Fast Company contributing editor Scott Kirsner is ready to serve ... you.READ»

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Fight Back

A collection of Web-exclusive stories about September 11 and its aftermath.READ»

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Our Favorite Things

A collection of gadgets, gizmos, and gear treasured by Fast Company staff members. Find out what tools help us work smarter and play harder, and then visit our new online product gallery: Hot Stuff!READ»

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The Customer Experience

Forget faster or cheaper. The Web challenges you to rethink the most basic relationship in business: the one between you and your customers.READ»

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Being There

DreamWorks Animation couldn't find a videoconferencing system that made CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg happy--so it built its own.READ»

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Maverick Mogul

As he builds his own digital version of the vertically integrated movie studio, Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban is questioning everything about the business--and naturally ticking a lot of people off.READ»

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Sweating In the Hot Zone

Imagine what life would be like if your product were never finished, if your work were never done, if your market shifted 30 times a day. The computer-virus hunters at Symantec don't have to imagine.READ»

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Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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GE Smackdown!

Jeff Immelt and Jack Welch go toe-to-toe.READ»

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Time (Zone) Travelers

It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes. Meet some folks who are really living the borderless life.READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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Hold The Phone

Internet telephony is cheap: "The economics finally make sense." But as more and more companies are discovering, it also can let you do some nifty things. Voice over Internet protocol technology is keeping workers--in hospitals, Wall Street brokerages, law firms, even National Basketball Association franchises--connected as never before.READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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Fantastic Voyage

Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ»

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Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines

They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway.READ»

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Catch Me If You Can

The hunt for an eBay scammer. Jay Nelson ripped off buyers on eBay and Yahoo until the Feds put him behind bars. We catch up with him in prison, where he'll be until 2007.READ»

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All The Right Moves: Your Next Move

What to do on Monday morning: tactics to find a great job (or leave a lousy one)READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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Song's Startup Flight Plan

How does an established corporate giant (in this case, Delta Air Lines) respond to disastrous economic circumstances and the rise of a new breed of competitors that operate by different rules? By creating a whole new operation (in this case, Song) that runs by those rules, and then trying to fly beyond the competition. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the ambitious flight plan and bumpy launch of an internal startup.READ»

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Between The Lines

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Would You Like a Mortgage With Your Mocha?

Who says banking has to be dull? Not the executives at ING Direct, who are banking on powerful technology and clever marketing to make a radical change in an industry that needs it. The result: In less than three years, they've attracted more than a million customers and $10 billion in assets. And they serve a pretty mean cappuccino.READ»