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Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer...

Being in a hospital is no fun for adults who understand the need to be poked and prodded. But for kids, the experience can be even more dreadful.

The team at 99U follows productivity trends on a daily basis and noticed that every few years, a research study comes along that fundamentally changes the way we think about work. These studies are often conducted over decades and follow people across their careers to offer the rest of us a template to follow for our day-to-day lives. Below are three studies that are behind much of the productivity and creativity advice you read every day.

A new study shows: Ad people love advertising and social media. Other people, less so. Also, ad people are more likely to behave badly at office parties.

The Ostrich Pillowis a soft, padded tube in which you can bury your head to take a nap, so long as you don't mind burying your head in a soft, padded tube.

Agency Fred & Farid Paris delivers more anthropomorphic antics for Orangina’s Miss O–and this time, the “women” are running the show.

My iPhone isn't so much my phone as it is my SMS and Email Device—which is to say, I talk on the phone not nearly often enough to warrant calling it that. But, hey, the name seems to have stuck.

The Census Bureau introduced its first mobile app to give economists, policy makers and citizens greater access to real-time data on the health of the nation’s economy.

What key elements should you include in your business plan? Here you go.

All around the world, mothers are inventing new child-care products–so Kimberly-Clark thought, why not collaborate with them (and save the R&D budget in the process)?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos frequently uses the e-commerce site's front page as a place to announce changes in service or major new initiatives. As one of the most-trafficked sites on the web, it's the perfect place to make a big splash. And today, he is using that space to announce its new Career Choice Program, which will provide tuition help for fulfillment center employees who seek careers in well-paying, in-demand areas like computer-aided design or medical lab technologies. Amazon already touts its ability to pay fulfillment center employees about 30 percent more than retail store employees...

Humanity sadly takes a collective step backwards with Alphyn Industries' new DELTA415 Wearcom jeans that feature a zippered pocket with a see-through pouch for accessing your smartphone without having to remove it first.

Unikey Technologies, a company made known by ABC's Shark Tank for technology that turns your smartphone into a universal door key, has raised $1.1 million according to an SEC filing. The amount appears to be in addition to a $500,000 equity stake raised from Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary earlier this year on the season finale of the program. Once the Unikey locking system is installed in a door, any paired Android, iOS, or BlackBerry device can unlock it. The system is not dependent on an app, but rather the system unlocks the door by simply detecting when the phone is in the immediate vicin...

If you've got a side business or other entrepreneurial endeavor in mind but haven't made a business plan for it yet, don't worry. You can create a simple, concise business plan by answering just ten questions on one page.

Key pointers from Omar Soliman, co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

An estimated $53 billion will be spent on pets this year. Good thing entrepreneur Lori Weiner's pet hotel specializes in fancy pet services.

Co-founder Neil Blumenthal talks about his disruptive eyewear company's roots and mission.

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With new food, revamped décor and an embrace of mommy blogs, McDonald’s isn’t just trying to keep its customers. It’s trying to convince skeptics that they’re wrong.

It’s only appropriate that Eric Ries is the subject of the first video for Fast Company’s new series: The Pivot. He’s the author of a best-selling book, “The Lean Startup,” and the man who made the term “pivot” part of the business vernacular.

Homeboy Industries, the passion project of an L.A. priest, has brought life reboots to hundreds of ex-cons, including onetime gang members and the former CEO of mega-construction company KB Home.

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