Could A Redesign Really Rescue USA Today?
With the help of Wolff Olins, USA Today makes its newspaper more like the web, while the website is more like an iPad app. . fastcompany.com
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The Next Attempt To Satisfy Your Cravings For On-Demand Books And Magazines
We already pay subscriptions to watch the movies and listen to the music we want. Now, publishers are experimenting with all-you-can-read services too.All the world’s entertainment is becoming a buffet. We pay to stuff ourselves monthly with all the movies and TV shows on Netflix and Hulu, and millions of music tracks on Spotify and
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Fast Company Is Looking For A Digital Operations Assistant
Department: Digital Media & Operations Reports To: Group Director of Digital Media & Operations Title: Digital Operations Assistant Office: New York Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The primary purpose of this position is to support both Digital Business Operations and Digital Revenue (ad) Operations Department Head to accurately insert, monitor and maintain Mansueto Ventures sold interactive
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How Ecodev Persuades Companies To Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S. (Hint: It’s Cheaper)
Ecodev, a Minnesota-based economic development consultancy, helps American businesses see that manufacturing products stateside isn’t just a matter of national pride, it’s good for their bottom line. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest ideas are changing their communities–and having a ripple
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Yahoo’s Axis And The New Search Wars
Yahoo is reimagining the front end. Google is working on the back end. And Bing is tackling both. Who will win the new search wars?On Wednesday, Yahoo released Axis, a new browser plug-in and iPhone and iPad app that purports to “reinvent” the search experience. It’s not so much of a reinvention, however, than it
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VeriFone And PayPal Partner To Change The Way You Shop At Big Retailers
VeriFone and PayPal have just announced they’re teaming up to bring PayPal’s next-generation payment system to the country’s large retailers. PayPal can already be used in about 2,000 Home Depot stores. And you probably use a VeriFone machine at least once a day when you shop in stores and pay for your purchases by card–the
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Yahoo Accidentally Leaks Private Encryption Key For Axis, Its New Search System
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Last night Yahoo introduced Axis, a browser extension/ mobile app designed to turbo-boost Internet searching. It’s a bold new front in the Search Engine Wars. But it was accompanied by another, less savory release, discovered by Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian entrepreneur: Yahoo accidentally leaked its private encryption key
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches Toward ISS
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.At 3:44 a.m Eastern time private space company SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its Dragon space capsule system toward the International Space Station–the upper stages are even now whirling above your head in a sequence of orbits that’ll see a rendezvous with the station
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Innovation Agents: Oscar Morales And One Million Voices Against FARC
When Oscar Morales graduated college at 21 he became a civil engineer working mostly in construction in his native Colombia. Around that same time he became one of the early adopters of the Internet in Colombia. “I’m talking about 1996,” Morales says a decade and a half later. “This was the Internet in its very
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories primarily focused on charisma, creativity, breaking norms in the workplace, and stunning design. You will find some great advice and varying perspectives in the articles below. Enjoy. 1. fastcompany.com
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