The developer of Adblock Plus, Eyeo, has decided that an independent board should determine which ads can bypass its ad-blocking filters.
Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus—an ad-blocking tool that removes pesky banner ads, pop-ups, and video advertising and is available today for iOS devices—has opted to allow an external board to determine which ads are “acceptable” and can pass through Adblock Plus filters.
Use the Frontier Plus in tents, sheds, tipis, and tiny houses—and pack it up when you’re done.
Anevay, a camping product company based in England, started with a humanitarian mission: its woodburning stove was initially deployed to disaster zones. After word got out about how well the product performed, Anevay put the Frontier Stove on the consumer market. Now it’s re-engineered the design and launched a Kickstarter to get the Frontier Plus on the assembly line.
TV’s greatest, most dysfunctional family, the Belchers, returns this weekend. That’s excellent news for viewers—and would-be entrepreneurs.
Here at Fast Company, we pride ourselves on being a beacon of advice for entrepreneurs looking to inject innovation and creativity into their business. However, there are some small-business owners who are dismally beyond help—Belcher family, we’re looking at you.
This week’s top leadership stories may help you cherish your friendships, follow up more tactfully, and boost your intelligence.
This week, we learned why having friends at work makes such a big difference, the right way to follow up, and how to boost your own intelligence.
Inside the struggle museum and gallery conservators face while fighting bit rot and broken parts.
As a teenager in the early 2000s, London artist Alexander Taylor and his friends shot videos on their Motorola Razr-era cellphones. They swapped the movies they made with one another in the already largely forgotten .3gp file format.
It’s not just unemployment that matters. Many full-time workers take home less money, after inflation, than in decades.
Because most everything we buy gets more expensive over time, we have to earn more money each year just to maintain our existing standard of living. When we’re not given raises that keep up with this rate of inflation, we’re effectively suffering a pay cut.
Hyperlocal produce, right under your feet.
Deep below the streets of London, something is growing in tunnels that once kept people safe from World War II bombs. One hint: It’s leafy.
Benjamin Hubert helped this cancer charity design a more effective, more humble charity box.
In Britain, Maggie’s is a nonprofit charity aimed at giving cancer patients support, information, and advice. It was named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, the wife of architectural critic Charles Jencks, and as such, it’s got a deep bench of designers who have worked with the charity, including Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Thomas Heatherwick.
We spoke to Hasbro’s Star Wars design director to discover how the most anticipated toy line of all time is created.
When I was a kid growing up, Christmas day meant one thing: more Star Wars toys. I couldn’t get enough of those beloved 3 and 3/4-inch Kenner action figures. Luke Skywalker in Jedi Knight Outfit, Han Solo in Hoth Gear, and my favorite, the yellow and green alien Amanaman, just because he looked so weird. And I wasn’t alone in my love. Matter of fact, the first line of Star Wars action figures produced by Kenner (since acquired by Hasbro) between 1978 and 1985 sold 300 million units and brought in £3.8 billion in revenue. That’s astounding considering the six films to date have brought in only a little more–just over $4 billion at the box office. And when Hasbro relaunched the Star Wars action figure line again in 1995, sales of its figures took in an additional $5.5 billion over the next 16 years.
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