FTC Sticks to Its Regulations as Blogger Backlash Builds Today, the Federal Trade Commission responded to an "open letter" from online advertisers that asked for the commission's newly updated guidelines to be scrapped, because they purportedly "muzzle social media" and, thus, inhibit the freeflow of ideas.
Posted Fri Oct 16, 2009
Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact.
Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009
Liz Claiborne Downshifts From Macy's to Penney's Brand Liz Claiborne is leaving its longtime partner, Macy's, for an exclusive partnership with J.C. Penney Co., the women's apparel company announced today.
The clothing line, like a lot of other labels in the sector, is struggling. The company cut about 8% of its workforce earlier this year. But to go from Macy's to Penney's? Is this J.C. Penney raising its profile or Liz moving down even deeper into the mass market?
Posted Thu Oct 8, 2009
FTC Responds to Blogger Fears: "That $11,000 Fine Is Not True"
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Bloggers say the FTC is threatening hefty fines if they take freebies. Not true, an agency rep tells Fast Company.
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
Career Advice from Fokko Wientjes, Sustainability Director of DSM DSM is a Dutch-based life- and materials-science company behind MixMe, a powdered multivitamin supplement developed in partnership with the UN World Food Program to ease malnutrition in developing countries. Fokko Wientjes, 45, says the secret to his 20-plus career at DSM is about not staying in the same place.
Posted Mon Jan 26, 2009
HopeLab: Video Games for Health President and CEO: Pat Christen
Posted Wed Nov 26, 2008
The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking Founder and Board Chair: Victoria Hale
Posted Wed Nov 26, 2008
HopeLab: Video Games for Health President and CEO: Pat Christen
Posted Tue Nov 25, 2008
The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking Founder and Board Chair: Victoria Hale
Posted Tue Nov 25, 2008
Mercy Corps: The Bank of Banks CEO: Neal Keny-Guyer
Posted Tue Nov 25, 2008
Rahm Emanuel's Balancing Act The congressman from Illinois is doing a little dance around the offer to be president-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff.
Posted Thu Nov 6, 2008
Surprise, Surprise! Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan denied that he was somehow responsible for what he called a "once-in-a-lifetime credit tsunami" to lawmakers today in Washington, D.C.
Posted Thu Oct 23, 2008
Drunk on Google: Scenes from the G1 Launch Party Celebs and media and wannabes collide at the T-Mobile party for the G1 phone, Google's first launch party ever. What does a Google launch party look like? For starters, it features a live performance by the Raconteurs. But also plenty of drunken antics, including the chicken dance and much more. Read on!
Posted Fri Oct 17, 2008
Social Capitalism in Words The concept of social entrepreneurship means different things to different people. Here some people discuss what two particular social projects mean to them.
Posted Thu Sep 11, 2008
Fast Talk: Metal Mentor Since 1997, Endeavor Global has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs to build companies that help support emerging markets across Latin America and Africa.
Posted Mon Feb 11, 2008
Fast Talk: Water Work For the last 70 years, Population Services International has been using private sector distribution and marketing channels to deliver low-cost health products--such as Waterguard, a chlorine-based water-treatment solution--in developing countries worldwide.
Posted Mon Feb 11, 2008
Fast Talk: Rising Up Community Reinvestment Fund, USA aids community-development lenders nationwide by purchasing their loans and offering training and development.
Posted Mon Feb 11, 2008
Nano-Sleuths Authentix's technology spots fake fuel and drugs--and could help millions of poor people.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
