“We keep setting new records week by week,” Ek said at an event on Monday.
Despite predictions that Apple Music could swallow streaming music competitors, a different phenomenon seems to be taking place: Apple’s interest in the rapidly evolving music industry is actually giving its competitors a boost.
What could go wrong?
Lazily signaling approval on Facebook has always been easy, but the days of having to express a negative emotion—or show compassion—with words may be coming to an end.
The app is monetizing its replay feature: You can now watch three replays for 99 cents.
Apparently Snapchat is just a little too much of a good thing—and the company is now using that fact to develop a new revenue stream.
If you want to measure the 1099 economy, it makes sense to count 1099s.
The increasing number of independent contractors in the “gig economy” is quickly becoming a political issue, with presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush weighing in on opposite ends of the debate over whether it’s indicative of a return to sweatshop labor or innovation. The politician asking the more pertinent question, however, is Senator Mark Warner from Virginia.
When clients have unrealistic goals, how do you bring them back to reality without convincing them to take their business elsewhere?
“We want to be on the Today show!” That was the response Jennon Bell Hoffmann heard when she asked some new clients what their goals were for their project, an educational video series that needed to crowdsource funding.
In the eyes of our esteemed judges, these projects represent the year’s best design.
After hundreds of hours mulling over the best design work in the world, Fast Company is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Innovation by Design Awards. This year’s entries were as strong as we’ve ever seen, with over 1,500 projects from across the globe. In the eyes of our esteemed judges, the projects you’ll find below were the best of the best. There were only 13 winners anointed in the entire competition. Each of them represent what’s best about design today: Big ideas, meticulously thought out details, and a clear viewpoint about how we live now—and how it could be better.
Heartbreaking photos of the things people take when they have nothing left.
When Iqbal, a 17-year-old, fled the fighting in Afghanistan, he took a single bag. One change of clothes, $100, some Turkish lira, and SIM cards for Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. A comb, a few bandages. He also brought face whitening cream and hair gel.
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