Fast Company Features

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Charlene Li on Flaming Laptops, Sleeping Technicians, and the Streisand Effect

Fast Interview: The author talks about why power is shifting from companies to people and why trying to stop it is like "trying to take pee out of a pool."

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Dirty Marketing Campaigns

How marketers create disgust and embarrassment -- and why we shouldn't put up with it.

Fast Talk

Question: How bad is it for Microsoft that Intel has decided not to upgrade the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Vista?

Answer: Yeah, it's bad. But, whether it's bad or not, Microsoft isn't going to collapse over it. They're too rich and too entrenched -- they have income from... | posted by Reagan Cardwell

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Question: Will Warren Buffett win his million-dollar bet that an S&P index fund will outperform a collection of high-powered hedge funds over the next 10 years?

Answer: I don't see Warren Buffett as "betting" in the sense of 'gambling' on much of anything. He knows tons more than the rest of us about things... | posted by Carel Two-Eagle

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Member Blogs

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A Letter to Walmart

It has been a while since I published a letter from one of my readers. I get several comments via email concerning typical customer...

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The Desirability of Staying Small in Business

Some time back, someone asked me why we at Indian Maid want to stay a small business, rather than try to take over the markets for our products. ...

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FC Management Expert

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Who Gets "It"? Travelers Insurance Does

I was in a car accident a few weeks ago, and like everyone that has that misfortune, I also was not looking forward to dealing with the...

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The New Accountability: Felix Unger Will Stop Paying for Oscar Madison

There was a story in a recent Wall Street Journal about a new technology...

FC Now Staff Blogs

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Knocking off the Knockoffs

Ebay has built an empire through the sale of second-hand items by private sellers, but as an increasing amount of retailers offer new brand name...

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Advertising Abroad and Now at Home

Did you see Natalie Portman in that one advertisement for Lux...

Member Comments

Article: The Future of Green... Everything (Cross-Post)

Comment: Even though thinking about "green" issues has become somewhat mainstream, personally, I think the communication around sustainability still tends to... | posted by member April Joyner

Article: Opening up domain names to end in any word and be created in any language will only create confusion, fraud, and phishing.

Comment: I don't see that domains ending in "almost" any word would cause confusion - there being some, like the Carlin 7 "forbidden" ones - that wouldn't... | posted by member Carel Two-Eagle