Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.We released our annual Most Creative People list this week. As usual, it was wildly popular. Though we have decided not to include its content in this week's top 10, you can read about it here (in case you missed it). We have some incredible new tech stories this week that include
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Twitter and NASCAR announced a digital partnership Friday that will bring NASCAR enthusiasts the tweet-by-tweet of the All Star race weekend June 10. Twitter will curate #NASCAR tweets from drivers and commentators, as well as celebrities and fan. Twitter users watching the races on TNT will get in
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Because simply having the largest IPO in U.S. history isn't enough for Facebook, the social network also went shopping. The social gifting mobile app called Karma is announcing that it has been acquired by Facebook. The company's cofounders, including Lee Linden, one of Fast Company's Most Creative
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Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors. [View the story "Tracking Social Media Reaction to the Facebook IPO" on Storify]
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All the recent advances in robots that grip onto asteroids, walk like dogs, and replace damaged human limbs. Enjoy! Bot Vid: JPL's Asteroid GripperThere's all sorts of crazy-wonderful plans about mining asteroids in the news, but we also need to remember plans to defend Earth against rogue asteroid impacts...both technologies require actually grabbi
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"I think tech is lacking sexiness," says Shark Tank personality and FUBU founder Daymond John. "I want to bring my understanding of lifestyle and culture to Silicon Valley." He's getting started by pairing socially savvy entertainer Pitbull with club-booking startup EzVIP. In William Shatner's 14-year reign at Priceline, he became one of the best-k
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The game industry is entering a digital future. To maintain a place in it, retail chain GameStop has scaled the used game buy-back model that first made it a success--now it's buying used companies, too.Odds are, when you think of GameStop, you picture yourself trading in a handful of old titles to buy a new release or one of the retailers "pre-owne
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Meet Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and believer that cold calling should go the way of the dinosaur. When he was still a kid, Phil Fernandez loved to paint and sculpt. So much that he devoted 12 years (all the way through college) to such artistic pursuits. Then, armed with a Stanford degree, Fernandez put down the brushes and chisels and “disco
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Joel Stein wrote a book, "Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity," and went to outrageous lengths to promote it. Then he wrote this article so you can steal his ideas (and of course, to promote his book).I do not like being a self-promoting whore. In fact, one of the reasons I became a writer was to avoid being a businessman, and one of the reason
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Pinterest users not only buy the products they pin, but spend more on average than their Facebook counterparts, according to new data from Shopify.Pinterest just picked up a cool $100 million in funding led by Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten, placing its value in the region of $1.5 billion. That's huge--bigger than Instagram--but perhaps just
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Gala dinners are too big. How about a smaller donation pool over a home-cooked meal?Scott Tanksley is the founder of Meals with a Mission, an Atlanta-based startup. The idea animating Meals with a Mission is something of a mashup between a gala dinner and a regular-old dinner party with friends. Why not combine two things people wish they did more o
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Since graduating from Harvard Business School in 1979, Clayton M. Christensen has observed personal tragedies in the lives of his fellow MBAs, from a string of unhappy marriages, estranged children, and messy divorces, to enormous scandal--classmate Jeffrey Skilling was CEO of Enron. He knew that none had a deliberate strategy for broken homes or ja
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Yesterday evening Twitter revealed a new service to its millions of users: Suggested follows. It's an expansion of its current recommendation engine that simply shows the same list to new joiners to Twitter, and it's rolling out in an number of countries around the world as an experiment to both ne
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In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now.Is Facebook worth the $100 billion or so its pending IPO suggests it is? Who the good gracious knows. But one thing we can all be certain about is how the social network has radically changed people's behavior and expectations
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Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away. Harvard Business School is buzzing. In part, it’s because students are working in “hives,” new circular, collaborative workspaces. But also bec
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Whether in the role of front man for world-music band Soulfege, hosting an award-winning TV show, or creating a better business model for independent artists, Derrick Ashong is just trying to communicateDerrick Ashong has a knack for being in the right place at the right time—and for seizing the moment. He became a YouTube sensation during the 200
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J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar." Steve Jobs didn't just design hit consumer products in the computer and media industries. He reimagined all types of things, from yachts to staircases to the medical equipment he was said to
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More business-friendly than Groupon, and more respectful of user data than Facebook, Merchant Exchange is a one-stop shop for rewards programs. It'll save you money without creeping you out.Michael Tolkin is the founder of Merchant Exchange, a site that wants to be the one-stop shop for rewards programs. When you get two dozen emails a day in your i
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What would you do if you were named the first-ever editor of one of the world's fastest-growing media companies and put in charge of a publishing platform with about 44 million users? Chris Mohney on taking Tumblr beyond "F*&% Yeah" memes. Let's say you were handed the keys to a new, experimental department at one of the fastest-growing media compan
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Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. How do you c
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You need a top-notch team to do your best work--but you need to hire them first. Here's half a dozen common ways managers shoot themselves in the human-resources foot. If you can recruit people who are talented, brilliant, natural leaders, it can make all the difference to your organization’s success--and your sanity as a leader. There is nothing
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The additional shares available on IPO that Facebook revealed later yesterday actually won't make Facebook itself any cash--they are actually being sold by existing insider shareholders. This may have raised a few eyebrows in the financial world because selling a stake like this at launch could ind
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The iPhone's 4-IncherWe've often suspected that the Wall Street Journal is an "official" leak source used by Apple to seed the media with slightly more directed rumors about its upcoming products. And now the WSJ has chimed in on the four-inch iPhone screen rumor and said yes, that it's indeed true ... Apple's buying screens in large numbers from su
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Via FierceWireless: Should Verizon’s current 3G customers decide to migrate toward 4G LTE pastures, their $30 unlimited data plans won’t be going with them. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo announced at a J.P. Morgan conference today that the company’s “grandfathered” 3G customers will have to pur
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.[youtube mmQl6VGvX-c#!] Google today launched the Knowledge Graph, a new search engine feature that helps users quickly find relevant information using semantic search technology. Now, when a user conducts a search, Google will return results with two right-hand side panels that will include addit
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Mother's Day recently got me thinking about the power of Mom. No, I'm not talking about her power to get us to finish all our vegetables or clean up our rooms--I'm talking about her power in 2012 to brand.Let's face it, the American mother is an incredibly iconic figure that is constantly changing and growing. That evolution is most evident from tel
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New York City's government just announced a new listing service for tech jobs. But what about that pesky poor-business-broadband-in-NYC problem?New York City matters to tech. It's also a place where the high-tech sector is largely tied into existing industries such as fashion (Gilt Groupe), marketing (Foursquare) and media (Tumblr). Mayor Michael Bl
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Steve Weathers, president and CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, shares five things you need to know about opening a business in the Hostess City of the South. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging
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New research shows just how much we love to talk about ourselves. Twitter and Facebook have built massive platforms on this premise. How long before many other brands grab a piece of our action? You run through the latest collection of your party photos, psyched to share the best ones with a few good friends. You email them and post them on Instagr
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If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off in productivity?After 90 minutes of meeting, working, thinking, and pushing emails, your glucose is in a bad place. That’s what project managem
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How Fab.com pivoted from a failed social network for gays to a retailing powerhouse valued at $200 million in less than 6 months. The third in our Pivot series. Bradford Shellhammer and Jason Goldberg realized it just wasn't working. Their gay social network, Fabulis, a mashup of Facebook, Yelp, Trip Advisor, and Foursquare, wasn't exactly failing
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About 2,000 years before Clayton Christensen coined “disruption” or Renee Mauborgne the “blue ocean,” Chinese strategists passed down a fable about a peasant who stole a sheep. The fable defines a strategic pattern that many have labeled since: a pattern at the heart of history’s most significant companies, social movements, and civilizati
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Facebook's Beacon was a bomb. Will this ecommerce site figure out the right way to let friends see what friends are buying?Four and a half years ago, Facebook launched Beacon, a feature that showed users what their friends were buying. The social network thought the idea would be a hit, but it backfired (and quickly folded) after users felt like the
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.A new survey from BIA/Kelsey has looked at the trends in advertising on social media and concluded that by 2016 it'll be a market topping $10 billion per annum, mainly as display ads. For context, some $3.8 billion was spent on these ads in 2011, so phenomenal growth is predicted. In the very week
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By establishing your business as the truly remarkable option in a field full of snoozers and look-alikes, you will get more free and effective publicity than any traditional advertising budget can buy.Being remarkable is a never-ending process. To differentiate yourself from your competitors, you need to commit to the pursuit of constant innovation.
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A fresh clutch of patent applications from Google hints at the mysterious search algorithm. Plus, ideas for product placement on YouTube and more on Google's Project Glass.Personalizing Google SearchGoogle's algorithm doesn't just decide what pops up on the first page of search results. It's the stuff of complex third-party angst, law-making, lawsui
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Via WSJ: General Motors’ marketing executives have decided to pull the company’s $10 million in paid Facebook after deeming the efforts had “little impact” in reaching consumers. The announcement comes three days before Facebook’s initial public offering. The company will continue to use
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Watch the cofounder of the e-commerce design site explain how he figured out a way to share his obsession--a breakthrough (and risky) moment that established him as the curator of a wildly successful business. "People who embrace design, it infiltrates their entire life," says Fab.com cofounder (and Most Creative Person 2012) Bradford Shellhammer
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If your team spends its days asking for permission before executing, taking an hour to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you’ve got a problem.Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can qu
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With sky-high unemployment, Richmond, California, is not a place where traditional business models alone can dent poverty. The city has turned to co-ops in hopes that people who might be unemployable in the traditional economy gain access to both jobs and control over their own labor. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights
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