Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
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 [more]
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In Daymond John's World, For Every Startup, A Sexy Celebrity Pitchman
"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-y [more]
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Facebook Acquires Karma
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, includ [more]
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Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage Of All-Star Races
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 Pocono 400 race on the weekend of June 10. Twitter will curate #NASCAR tweets from drivers and commentators, as well as celebriti [more]
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This Week In Bots: Are You Ready To Be More Machine Than Man And/Or Woman?
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 [more]
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Tracking Facebook's IPO Day On Social Media
Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors. [View the story "Tracking Social Media Reaction to the Facebook IPO" on Storify] [more]
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Free Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn't Suck
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 prog [more]
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Joel Stein, The World's Best Self-Promoter, On How To Be The World's Best Self-Promoter
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 [more]
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GameStop At A Crossroads
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 [more]
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Phil Fernandez And Marketo's Mission: Eliminate Cold Calling Forever
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, Fern [more]
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