Here’s what your morning routine should look like, according to Laura Mae Martin, Google’s executive productivity advisor. Whether or not breakfast is the most important meal of the day is ...
Surprise: Despite the ByteDance app’s bad day, its competitors aren’t rallying like you might expect. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112594/tiktok-ban-social-media-rivals-stocks-meta-snap-oracle
The social media company said it had a ‘good start to the year,’ but investors seem to think it wasn’t good enough. Meta announced its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on We...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112579/meta-stock-plunges-2024-q1-earnings
Techno-optimism pervades governments and nongovernmental organizations, and influences the thinking of billionaires. Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manife...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112509/techno-optimism-society-impact
AI-generated images draw in users—and Facebook’s recommendation algorithm may be organically promoting these posts. If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may hav...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112496/ai-generated-images-social-media-spam-scams
Remember, anything can happen with summer movies. “Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape ...
A year into the job, the rideshare CEO shares how he turned the company cash-flow positive and why he may pull out from Minneapolis. When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare c...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91111041/lyft-ceo-david-risher-minneapolis-wage-minimums
The passage of the bill resulted in a flood of comments from angry users on the president’s campaign TikTok videos. President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, signed into law a $95 billion national ...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112525/biden-plans-to-keep-using-tiktok-after-signing-tiktok-ban
Like a Taylor Swift midnight album drop, the Tesla earnings call is a moment of shared, almost communal, focus. Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, ...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91111930/elon-musks-tesla-earnings-call-has-become-a-cultural-event
Disclosing fees and curbing sly sales tactics that leave travelers paying more are among guidelines laid out by the Department of Transportation. The Biden administration’s war against junk f...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112384/airlines-junk-fees-baggage-seats-new-rules-explained
Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago. Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation .
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112447/auto-insurance-rates-rising-car-owners-inflation
Artificial intelligence can help create equity and engagement. Today’s education system is driven by rules and standardization, too often ignoring the specific needs of individual learners, p...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91111001/embedding-ai-into-education-will-personalize-learning
Musk told investors on a conference call that he guessed the Tesla robot, called Optimus, would be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of this year. Tesla’s humanoid robot is sti...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112416/tesla-optimus-humanoid-robots-to-start-selling-next-year
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce could move for an injunction temporarily blocking the FTC’s rule from taking effect as the case proceeds. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest bu...
Inequality is about more than just pay. A new survey reveals stark realities for women at work across 10 different countries. The gender wage gap has narrowed to women earning 92 cents to a ma...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91110759/women-work-through-menstrual-pain-deloitte-survey
Similar crowdfunding platforms already exist in Mexico, but none have GoFundMe’s reach. Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe , the company announced Tuesday, as the crowd...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112190/gofundmes-latin-american-expansion-launching-with-mexico
In a market where experience rules, organizations that let operations languish do so at their own risk. Here’s why a ‘strategic’ approach is required. Last year, while devising a nationwi...
The long-awaited bill is, in some ways, only the beginning. Following years of public scrutiny over TikTok’s ties to China, the Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require TikTok’s pare...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112299/congress-passed-tiktok-divest-or-ban-bill-what-comes-next
Consumers are not at risk since pasteurization kills the virus, but PCR lab tests still detect the genetic material. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that samples of pasteuriz...
https://www.fastcompany.com/91112188/grocery-store-milk-tests-positive-bird-flu-virus-according-fda
In a new play at New York’s Public Theater, a Nigerian American writer uses surrealist drama to explore how white-dominant workplaces can alienate people of color. Albert Camus, the French no...