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Fast Company has been dedicated to covering the latest cutting-edge developments in the business world. With a unique focus on the emergence of design and the ever growing culture of sustainability Fast Company continues to advise and inform its readers in a way unlike any other magazine. It transcends the boundaries of normal business conventions by showcasing organizations and individuals who impact the world through creative ingenuity.

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Since 1995, Fast Company has been an informative and vital voice of the changing business industry. The monthly magazine is a beacon to new industries, especially those tied to the Internet, but offers more. Inside are smart attitudes and information that give entrepreneurs and business professionals the particulars of leadership and organization, no matter what the trade. Find key ingredients of working in teams or read a candid interview with the leaders of today's leading-edge companies. The magazine also offers practical business tools and tactics, from must-have gadgets to how to handle voluminous amounts of e-mail. Ideas come from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Harvard, and even Las Vegas. The magazine dubbed the entrepreneurship and consulting movement "Free-Agent Nation," and overnight became the bible for those working for themselves. --Doug Thomas

Rating : - Fast (but Deceptive) Business Practice
I subscribed to this magazine two years ago (back when it still had some worthwhile content). I am sure I did NOT subscribe under an automatic renewal plan.

Last year I received a postcard from Fast Company. The postcard said that if I did NOT return it within two weeks then they would charge my charge card for another two year subscription- and after that, they would just continue to renew me forever.

I declined the "offer" by returning the postcard. I also phoned their customer service where, after a 15 minute wait, I cancelled my subscription.

Or so I thought- because, they just renewed (and charged) me anyway.

In my opinion, there is a word for taking from someone's charge card without explicit permission: "theft." And there is a phrase for companies (hello, AOL) that demand automatic renewal yet provide no effective way to cancel-- and that is, "deceptive business practice."

And so, the bottom line is: do you really expect to receive useful business information from a publisher who does this??