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A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry. New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it.

Who will win?

Your money is just a set of bits these days. So why shouldn't it be treated as such--and make your life easier?

What does a pet product start-up have in common with a Girl Scout selling cookies? They can both teach you about mobile payments.

The hackers didn't get credit card information but what they did get is potentially more dangerous. Don't let it happen to your business. Inc.

Hackers stole credit card data from 200 businesses over three years and racked up $3 million in bogus charges. Don't think it can't happen to you.

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Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the death of daily deals (and their resurrection ) in the last few weeks.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apotheker Replaced By Whitman At HP . Late yesterday, HP's board took a controversial decision and ousted its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months in the role

Using strangers for rides has yet to catch on in most places, but a bad economy and high gas prices can make almost anything palatable.

Verizon and AmEx have plans to let customers order items simply by typing in their phone number. It's all about integrating AmEx's Serve platform into the phones and tablets Verizon sells--an expansion of some fledgling "pay by phone" systems, and very different than the systems other teams are planning for the future of mobile payments.

"She doesn’t need customization," WePay co-founder Rich Aberman says of a Nebraska theater major. "She just wants to get up and running quickly." Let’s say you’re a 20 year-old college student, and you want a simple way to sell the crafts you make as a hobby to help fund a summer trip. Where do you go?

A big chunk of change dropped into the mobile payments company’s lap this week when Kleiner Perkins signed on as an investor. Square's COO, Keith Rabois, tells us where the dough will go.

Square promises to put an end to the headaches of traditional purchases: having to fumble with your wallet, exchange and swipe the credit card, wait for a paper receipt. But someone still needs to convince merchants.

You know what you love about the iTunes App Store: You enter your payment information once, and then immediately, all of the world's digital content is available at your finger tips.