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''Fast Company'' is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and focuses on technology, business, and design. Robert Safian has been the editor-in-chief since 2007, having previously worked at ''Fortune'', ''Time'', and ''Money''. The magazine has won numerous industry awards.〔(''Fast Company'' :: progressive | creative | innovative ). Mediakit.fastcompany.com. Retrieved on April 10, 2012.〕 ==History== ''Fast Company'' was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former ''Harvard Business Review'' editors, and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman.〔(About Us | ''Fast Company'' | Co.Design | Co.Exist | Co.Create ). ''Fast Company'' (October 25, 2011). Retrieved April 10, 2012.〕 The publication's early competitors included ''Red Herring'', ''Business 2.0'' and the ''The Industry Standard''. In 1997, ''Fast Company'' created an online social network, the "Company of Friends" which spawned a number of groups that began meeting in person. At one point the Company of Friends had over 40,000 members in 120 cities, although by 2003 that number had declined to 8,000. In 2000, Zuckerman sold ''Fast Company'' to Gruner + Jahr, majority owned by media giant Bertelsmann, for $350 million. At the time this was the second largest amount for any US magazine in history. Webber and Taylor left the magazine, and John A. Byrne, previously with Newsweek, was brought in as the new editor.〔 Although the magazine was not specifically about Internet commerce, readership declined sharply following the collapse of the dot-com bubble. By 2003 newsstand sales had declined by half, and advertising pages were one-third the 2000 numbers.〔 In 2005, Gruner + Jahr sold the magazine, as well as ''Inc. magazine'', to Joe Mansueto's company Mansueto Ventures for $35 million.〔(Gruner + Jahr sells 2 U.S. magazines ) ''The New York Times''. June 21, 2005.〕 ''Fast Company'' was named by the American Society of Magazine Editors as the magazine of the year in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fast Company (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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