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• Strong newsstand growth for Inc. and Fast Company

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  U.S. ABC-audited titles, Fast Company and Inc. saw continued momentum in their rate of growth of single copy newsstand sales. For the six months ended June 30, Inc. ranks 13th, compared to fifth in the second half of 2006 FAS-FAX report, and Fast Company ranks 12th again compared to the same prior period. For the six-months ended June 30,

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• Business 2.0 slated to lose $10 million

  Published: August 24, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Business 2 0, Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  is the owner of Inc. and Fast Company magazines. Kelly wrote, “But while it had a worthy name, it couldn’t transform the magazine into a moneymaker. “Its circulation is around 600,000 so it seems like the subscriber list, if nothing else, could generate some buyer interest. Interested parties have come from as far away as

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• The downside in business magazines

  Published: August 28, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Businessweek, Conde Nast Portfolio, Business 2 0, Fast Company

  category, why Inc. and Fast Company's gains may be fleeting, and his early thoughts on Portfolio. Here are some excerpts: There’s been a lot of speculation lately over the future of Business 2.0 magazine. Will it survive? What was its biggest downfall? Even at a 40 percent dropoff in the second quarter, I still have hopes for that

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• New hires at Fast Company

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Information, Job Changes, Fast Company

  Company magazine announced Wednesday that Thomas Foster will join the magazine as articles editor and Jeff Chu will join the staff as a senior editor. Both will begin on Sept. 4 and will report to Fast Company's editor and managing director Robert Safian. Foster was most recently the editor of Men’s Journal, where he planned all

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• Mansueto leading bidder for struggling Business 2.0 magazine

  Published: August 31, 2007, 7:46 am

  Tags: Business 2 0, Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  who already owns Inc. and Fast Company, is apparently the leading bidder to acquire struggling business magazine Business 2.0 from Time Inc. Kelly wrote, “It is not clear exactly what Mansueto would do with the magazine, although the deal would include a subscriber list of nearly 600,000 names, the brand and Web properties. It is also

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• Finding business journalism jobs on Facebook

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: Information, Job Changes, Fast Company, Internet Web Sites

  Business writes about how Fast Company senior editor Jeffrey Chu found his latest job by surfing for friends on social networking site Facebook. Cordova wrote, “While surfing through members' personal pages on the social networking site, the financial journalist came upon a former colleague from his days at Time magazine.

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• Fast Company’s October issue sees strong ad sales

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Fast Company

  Company magazine’s “Masters of Design” issue, which will come out on newsstands on Tuesday, will have a dramatic increase in ad pages, according to the magazine. The October issue has 85.3 advertising pages an increase of 83 percent from last year and up 22 percent year to date. The 164-page “Masters of

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• Bad summer for business magazines

  Published: October 16, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Fortune, Forbes, Business 2 0, Barron S, Fast Company, Money Magazine, Smart Money Magazine, The Economist

  The Economist, Fast Company, Forbes, Money and Smart Money reported an increase in ad dollars for the three-month period, while only Fast Company and Smart Money reported an increase in ad pages. Fast Company reported a 22.6 percent increase in ad dollars to $7 million and a 15.6 percent increase in ad pages to nearly 99 pages

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• America has Facebook fever...

  Published: October 25, 2007, 1:12 am

  Tags: Money, Facebook, Fast Company, Internet Culture, Internet

  article... I fucking love Fast company articles so much. The world has Facebook fever. Launched just three years ago by Zuckerberg--a college dropout and acknowledged hacker who famously turned down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) in 2006--Facebook has become the "it" company of the tech world. An entire industry has

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• Video: Hacking the iPhone from the Fast Company Magazine

  Published: November 22, 2007, 5:29 am

  Tags: Iphone, Apple, Devices, Fast Company, Hack Your Iphone, Iphone Hack Video, Iphone Hacking

  Company sent an iPhone to UNIX specialist and consultant Rik Farrow and commissioned him to crack through its defenses. Using the popular platform for testing security systems H D Moore’s Metasploit, Farrow was able to take complete control of an iPhone, even demonstrating the ability to eavesdrop on conversations, intercept voice mail

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• Challenging times for business magazines

  Published: December 3, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Businessweek, Fortune, Conde Nast Portfolio, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  Also, while Inc. and Fast Company are up, that’s against years of previous losses. So it’s a relative thing. “Conde Nast Portfolio isn’t on the chart I prepared because it’s new, and therefore the $13 million-plus it’s gotten this year is compared to zero for last. Nevertheless, that's quite a feat

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• Scoble to continue vlogging, let others do real work [Fast Company]

  Published: January 16, 2008, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Fast Company, Robert Scoble, Rocky Barbanica

  will move his videoblog to Fast Company. On his blog, Scoble writes that he thought about taking a "real job" or starting his own company, but decided to keep on with "media production" instead. Media production without writing and editing, that is. What's more, Fast Company agreed to hire compatriot Rocky Barbanica to do all the "management"

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• Fast Company and Inc. owner planning new business magazine

  Published: January 21, 2008, 7:41 am

  Tags: Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  which bought Inc. and Fast Company in 2005 from G+J USA, has also been spending money to build up its digital offerings. It announced plans for FastCompany.tv, an online video network, to go live in March. Technology blogger Robert Scoble was named managing director of the site, which will cover technology trends, interviews with

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• Tipping Point friction, or why you don't know Kevin Bacon

  Published: January 28, 2008, 12:11 pm

  Tags: Duncan Watts, Malcolm Gladwell, Fast Company, Viral Marketing

  takes on Malcolm Gladwell in Fast Company over whether viral marketing really can be controlled. At dispute is the theory that a series of key influencers set viral campaigns in motion -- proselytizers whom direct-to-consumer marketers love to try to reach. Gladwell wrote up influencers in The Tipping Point, suggesting there are certain types of

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• FastCompany.TV Launches: More Scoble, Now On A Beach

  Published: March 3, 2008, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Fast Company, Fastcompany Tv, Robert Scoble

  one. The Robert Scoble run FastCompany.TV has launched with more Scoble, more often. In the intro video above Scoble explains what he has planned for the site, complete with a beach scene that is straight out of a daytime soap opera. The site has launched with two shows, Scobleizer TV, Scoble’s own show that was previously with Podtech,

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