Months after India’s healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future. A $35 Indian Aakash tablet may turn out to be a pipe dream after all. In the most recent twist in the development of the unbelievably cheap piece of tech,

In a previous Fast Company article , I wrote about hitchhiking. Specifically, what I’ve learned about hitching a ride in semi-rural South Africa and how these strategies apply to marketing. I learned something by accident last month that took my thumbing skills to a whole new level.

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Marketing Lessons From An Accidental Con Man

The fact that the beloved charity that owns the pink ribbon

Lard didn’t just fall out of favor. It was pushed. It was a casualty of a battle between giant business and corporate interests

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Who Killed Lard?

The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures. Facebook’s new Timeline Movie Maker does one thing very, very well: It makes you want to upload more photos to Facebook

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Facebook’s Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego

Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S

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Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections

Quadrocopter Swarms Go Tiny If you’re a fan of This Week In Bots you’ll be exquisitely familiar with quadropters–the technology is blooming right now because the battery, motor, and control technology is ubiquitous and the stable flight platform offered by the design promises so much for the future of aerial robotics. That’s why we’ve seen them dance, perform ridiculous aerobatics , and even build things .

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This Week In Bots: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Them Now–The Robot Revolution Is Everywhere

They were doing just fine before, but Facebook’s biggest minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket.

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The Facebook IPO Players Club: Li Ka-shing

Just in case you've been living under a rock, Facebook announced its epic $100 billion IPO this week. From old media to new media to social media, and within every digital business in between, everyone's talking about it. Whether you're concerned, confused or could simply care less, there are indeed some valuable lessons that..

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Be Like Mark: Facebook IPO Takeaways

The breast cancer organization has suffered one of the worst public relations disasters in recent memory. Komen relies heavily on positive associations with its cause, but restoring its luster will be quite a task

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Can Komen Recover From Controversy?