No. 9 on Fast Company’s Queer 50 list, Singh is working on various initiatives at Mastercard, including the company’s recent investment to identify and scale treatments for COVID-19. This story is part of Fast Company ‘s first-ever Queer 50 List. Click here to see the full list. Read Full Story

‘Fast Company’ has a bold new look. Creative director Mike Schnaidt walks through the major design moves. Here at Fast Company, we absolutely love design. We celebrate it annually through our Innovation by Design program, and write about it daily here on Co.Design. Our magazine gives us a perpetually fresh canvas to practice what we preach. That’s why, as creative director, I find it important to continually evolve our look — it keeps us fresh and energized about design. With that, I’m excited to announce a brand-new redesign for Fast Company . Read Full Story

Real-time customer data and an ability to rapidly rethink marketing have been key elements for marketers in the travel and tourism categories as they've looked to manage in the fast-moving COVID-19 crisis.

As small businesses scramble to build web presences, the online marketing company is offering an unusually generous freebie to help them get started. The coronavirus has plenty of small businesses, from local restaurants to music teachers, looking to move their operations online fast. Read Full Story

Show your potential by making these simple, strategic moves. If you want to get ahead in the workplace, it helps to be seen as a “high-potential employee,” or HIPO. As reported previously in Fast Company , Gartner’s research finds that HIPOs exert 21% more effort than their non-HIPO peers and have a 75% chance of succeeding at roles that are critical to business performance and the future leadership pipeline. These are the folks who get plum assignments and are selected for training, mentoring, and other advancement programs, if they’re available. Read Full Story

CNN will try to make sense of the global coronavirus pandemic tonight with a special town hall event. The coronavirus pandemic is a fast-moving news story that’s changing by the minute. In the last 24 hours alone, we’ve seen severe restrictions on travel, sports events, Broadway shows, concerts, office work, school attendance, and nearly every venue where large groups of people gather. In between, it can feel almost impossible to separate fact from fiction, or tell the difference between legitimate precautions and outright panic. Read Full Story

Since it’s big players like Google that have all the targeting data, smaller ones will have a hard time competing without cookie data. Google’s move against individual web tracking might be good for consumer privacy—and could look good to antitrust investigators—but it will also consolidate Google’s power in interactive advertising, several advertising sources told Fast Company on Wednesday. Read Full Story

AbCellera’s Pandemic Prevention Platform team brought the first COVID-19 antibody to clinical trials in under 90 days. Together with Eli Lilly and NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center, AbCellera’s Pandemic Prevention Platform team combined microfluidics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, and genomics to bring the first COVID-19 antibody to clinical trials in under 90 days, a process that typically requires three to six years. In June Eli Lilly began two Phase 1 clinical trials of COVID-19 antibodies isolated by AbCellera. “People have pushed themselves to the very limits of their endurance in this race against the virus,” says AbCellera head of R&D Ester Falconer. Read Full Story

Is there anything Janelle Monáe can’t do? The multi-hyphenate artist ranks No. 4 on Fast Company’s inaugural Queer 50 list. This story is part of Fast Company ‘s first-ever Queer 50 List. Click here to see the full list. Read Full Story

Fast Company is launching a free webinar series for aspiring and novice journalists of color looking to develop their skills, hone their pitch, or land their dream job in media. With schools moving online and many internships put on hold, it can be difficult to begin a career in journalism. At the same time, it’s more important than ever that we expand access to an industry that has historically lacked diversity. Read Full Story