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Fast Deals Some of the 50 Most Innovative Companies we cited in March have found one another as intriguing as we did. We named Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the supersimple Flip digital video recorders, No. 7; that month, ...READ»

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Tim Burton, Eat Your Heart Out--and Watch This Castle Transform Before Your Eyes

Video of a mind-bending light projection by Apparati Effimeri, an Italian interaction-design firm. READ»

Accolade Wireless Network Will Save Miners' Lives

Mining is a dangerous business. But it might be getting a little safer thanks to wireless tech, a key part of a new underground comms and miner-locating network dubbed Accolade. The system has been developed by L-3 Communications ...READ»

Obscura Digital Uses U.S. Mint for A Dazzling Light Show

Obscura Digital transforms building facades into multimedia light shows--and you have to check out their latest work, which used San Francisco's U.S. Mint as a backdrop The piece was sponsored by McAfee, ...READ»

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Top 10 Lists Our ranking of innovative companies in the March issue elicited a flood of opinions. "Google is not innovative with regard to Web 2.0," insisted one of our Web correspondents. "Twitter is where innovation is at ...READ»

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Barbarian Group "Committed to Making Things Awesome" After Selling to South Korean Firm

South Korean ad company Chiel Worldwide just signed a deal to acquire The Barbarian Group, the Boston-based digital shop best known for its work on Subservient Chicken and Esquire's augmented reality issue, and (ahem) its ...READ»

Can I Have A Free MacBook to Go With That The Fray Performance?

Live from Soho isn't exactly a new event for the Apple iTunes store, it's simply an extension of Apple's digital music dominance: It's helping the music industry and artists make money, while connecting with fans and giving them what they really want.READ»

BMW Z4 Ads Slick, Immersive

A couple months ago, BMW released what was perhaps a decent but not necessarily superb ad for their Z4 convertible, which showed the car racing around on a white surface, it's tires leaving colorful marks--turning the hot-rod driving ...READ»

Presenting the 50 Most Innovative Companies

You won't find Bernie Madoff in these pages. Or talk of another Great Depression. You won't find unemployment statistics or the word "bailout." We may discuss those topics in another issue, but this month, we pass. It's not that we ...READ»

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Obscura Digital Can Make Your Brand Big...Really, Really Big

We recently named the firm Obscura Digital one of the top ten innovative companies in advertising and marketing, but their work really puts traditional advertising to shame. Obscura first worked the festival circuit, creating ...READ»

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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»

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Fixing the Music Model: Virgin Media, Universal to Launch Subscription Service in U.K.

In another ambitious scheme to repair the music industry and discourage illegal downloading, Virgin Media inked a deal with Universal Music to offer an unlimited-download subscription service to customers in the U.K. by year's end. ...READ»

Can Autodesk Make Green Building Accessible to the Masses?

Autodesk, a popular architecture design software brand, is best known for its AutoCAD software. But the company, which we designated as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies last year, is betting that upgraded versions of its ...READ»

Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker Go Blue in the Face to Battle Climate Change

Oxfam UK has teamed up with musicians including Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker, Little Boots, and VW Brown for its "Blue in the Face" campaign to highlight the severity of climate change's potential impact on the world's ...READ»

Tony Hawks Game Gets Uber-Real With Motion-Sense Skateboard

Given the success of Tony Hawk's skateboarding video game franchise, a plug-in peripheral that brings players closer to the real thing was inevitable. And now details have emerged that Hawk is releasing an electronic skateboard, ...READ»

Watch Out Top Chef: Eric Ripert Goes Hollywood

Foodies know him as the four-star chef of Le Bernardin, reality TV junkies know him as the classy French soul on Bravo's Top Chef, and the ad shop Anomaly, knows him, well, as The Brand Called Eric. Today, The Hollywood Reporter ...READ»

Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ»

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Is Twitter's Marketing Power Going to Waste?

The Internet is buzzing with discussion on exactly how the social-network site Twitter can turn its business into profit. With a simple purpose--short message sharing--and millions of users you'd think it'd be easy. But some new ...READ»