MTV's New Crusade: Helping Students Battle College Debt With A Facebook App MTV's new Facebook app, My College Dollars, is part of the network's broader strategy of hitting the sweet spot of profit and purpose.
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
How Intel and GE Will Monitor Your Grandma--For Her Own Good In-home monitors detect behavioral patterns and predict medical emergencies.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Personalized Health Data, Tailored Medicine, And The End Of Illness Dr. David Agus, one of Steve Jobs's oncologists and a medical researcher at USC, argues in his new book "The End Of Illness" that the key to a radical reduction in illness is to systematically prevent the unhealthy lifestyles that allow diseases to thrive, and to tailor medical treatment to each individual.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Yahoo Autos Partners With TrueCar, Brings Transparency To Car Buying Want to know which buyers are getting a great deal--and, who's getting stiffed? More than ever, now you can.
Updated Tue Jan 3, 2012
Beyond SOPA: Rep. Darrell Issa's Big Plans For Digitizing Democracy Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable.
Updated Mon Dec 19, 2011
Richard Branson: Screw Business As Usual, And Make Your (Huge Piles Of) Money By Doing Good Businesses can and should have a much larger social impact than nonprofits, Sir Richard Branson tells Fast Company in an exclusive interview. But there's a selfish element at play: A business with a social conscience will have more motivated employees, save resources, drive higher profits, and, paradoxically, be more satisfying than even the material wealth it creates.
Updated Thu Dec 8, 2011
Betsy Aoki Brings Social To Search At Bing A computer, simply tracking online behavior, can't compete with the knowledge of someone's best friend. "There are certain things where the algorithm is good, but it's not good enough," says Betsy Aoki, social media director at Bing. And that's the mantra she applies to creating fresh, personal search experiences.
Updated Tue Nov 8, 2011
Moustache Madness: Movember Emphasizes Fun, Not Guilt, To Raise Millions For Cancer Programs Movember cofounder Adam Garone tells Fast Company how he grew a massive charitable community by bringing the fun, moustache-style.
Updated Thu Nov 3, 2011
BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Would Create A Free Database For Customized Learning The BioBook is an interactive iPad biology college textbook that allows students and professors to create their own customized learning experience.
Updated Wed Nov 2, 2011
SocialVibe's Voluntary Ads Aim To Make The Internet Free SocialVibe's advertising platform exchanges premium services for lengthy, opt-in ads, and their impressive engagement rates have already caught the eye of global brands and presidential candidates.
Updated Sun Oct 30, 2011
Steve Jobs Biographer: Apple Founder Was Driven By Simplicity, Mystical Thinking, And Occasional LSD Use Walter Isaacson talks with Fast Company about the method and philosophy that made Steve Jobs better than his competitors at innovation, products, and design. Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger,” Jobs said.
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
Trickle-Forward Economics: Scott Harrison's Water-Based Experiment In Viral Philanthropy WaterForward transforms the concept of pay-it-forward into a viral philanthropy campaign for clean water projects.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
Inspired By "Facebook Nation," Obama's Chief Disruptor Brings Startup Culture To The Gov't The President's new Chief Innovation Officer, Steven VanRoekel, says America has become a "Facebook nation" that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government. His solution is to make agencies function like lean startups.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
Kinect TV And Sesame Street Hack The Next Generation Of TV Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop.
Updated Wed Oct 19, 2011
Reading Rainbow: The Next Generation The iconic brand returns--with a 21st-century upgrade for iPads.
Updated Thu Sep 15, 2011
How Howard Buffett Will Use His Grandfather's Recipe For Riches To Disrupt Philanthropy The grandson of the legendary investor aims to bring some private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy by helping nonprofits work better together and charities move away from selling narratives to selling solutions.
Updated Fri Sep 9, 2011
Thomas Friedman To United States: Innovate Or Else The blockbuster author and New York Times columnist talks with Fast Company about his new book, "That Used To Be Us," which contends that prioritizing innovation can turn around America's free-fall from superpower status.
Updated Tue Sep 6, 2011
Bitchin' Kitchen's Hilarious Recipe for Web Success Amateur chef and comedian Nadia Giosia broke into the competitive world of celebrity cooking with the power of her online community.
Updated Thu Sep 1, 2011
CrossFit: Where Navy SEALs and Pregnant Soccer Moms Help Each Other Get Ripped A new rapidly growing, community oriented exercise gym, CrossFit, has developed its own multi-million-dollar slice of the fitness industry on the backs of all-star athletes, elite armed forces, and power moms.
Updated Wed Aug 17, 2011
President's Social Media Team Goes After Obama Debt Rivals On Twitter President Obama's social media team unleashed a torrent of tweets today, specifically calling out Republicans opposing his debt ceiling plan.
Updated Mon Aug 1, 2011
