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The new Zynga partner program puts the company's know-how to work for outside game developers--but it'll also help Zynga get smarter faster.

In a mammoth two-hour keynote at its developers conference, Apple just revealed an armload of hardware, software, and services that will have execs at the companies and industries below gripping their Aerons. Google One of the three centerpieces of Apple's keynote was iOS 6, which will launch with over 200 new features and will be backward compatible with Apple's iPhone 3GS--its entry level phone that dates from 2010, but is still on sale

Eugene Alletto founded Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week, bedgear, to create performance bedding made with moisture wicking fabric that regulates body temperature. As applications for the 2012 Inc

Getting products into customers' hands is a complicated business. Check out these six hot companies that keep the whole thing humming

Pitching your company to investors daunting. We know that firsthand.

Start-ups can get a huge boost from partnering with larger companies. Bespoke Post and Parking Panda are growing thanks to key partners.

Despite being the 75th largest metro area in the U.S., Charleston is ranked in the top 10 fastest growing cities for software and Internet technology.

No need to pretend you're a large company. Your small size can help you beat the competition. Entrepreneurs, especially in the early years of developing their businesses, worry a lot about the perceived size of their companies--and they do many things to appear bigger from day one.

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Company leaders with motherly traits can help employees develop into the best they can be in their field.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. The Federal Trade Commission has approached both Google and Twitter concerning Facebook 's $1 billion deal to purchase social photo-sharer company Instagram. According to a source speaking to Reuters, it's not known exactly what details the FTC is curious about, but it was rumored that both these other companies and possibly others were interested in bidding for Instagram--itself growing at a swift rate and thus rapidly increasing in value--which caused Facebook's CEO to move very swiftly and conclude the deal in private without his board's full knowledge

In most cities, academic researchers have to drive across town, or even through other cities, to reach an industry incubator. In Aurora, they just walk across the street. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big

It takes one to know one. So we asked a range of successful entrepreneurs to name the companies they admire most and why. If it takes one to know one, who better to know great companies than entrepreneurs who have started great companies?

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week, Spigit, helps companies curate employee ideas and feedback to create a better product or service. As applications for the 2012 Inc.

We all make mistakes. It's how we handle them that makes the difference between a simple "Oops," and an epic fail. It happens.