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1. Google's open NFC credit card secret is now confirmed: Launch partners The Container Store and Vivotech accidentally confirmed that the system is on its way in September, will be dubbed Google Wallet and that it'll all be revealed at the special Google event later today.

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The smartphone boom helps clever companies turn ephemeral real-world resources into marketable goods. #article-bucket a .article-view-enlarged { display:none; } CHAD MEYER and Omid Saadati met at a Bay Area coffee shop about a year ago, and the two young entrepreneurs immediately began talking about what everyone in San Francisco talks about when they first meet: how long it had taken to find parking. "We'd both been going around and around the block, and we'd seen all these prime parking spaces that we couldn't use," Meyer says

Because solar and wind are only available sometimes, GE's new powerplant can quickly cycle on or off to pick up the slack.

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Two very big developments are about to happen in the NFC space, and together they might eliminate credit cards as we know them. Google has been courting the idea of NFC technology for a while, and it now seems poised to launch a potential game-changer (as Google is wont to do). The Wall Street Journal reported that an announcement from Google on Thursday will reveal its new NFC mobile-payment tech

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong didn't have to go very far to discover his company was struggling. He just asked one of his employees

TinyCo already makes top-selling iOS and Android games. And now, with the help of a billion-dollar venture capital firm, it's formed an investment fund to help more mobile game coders write hit apps.

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

One goal of our 100 Most Creative People In Business package is to bring you closer to the creative processes driving business geniuses. And our newly released iPad app gets you closer than ever before

Avery Johnson, coach of the New Jersey Nets, shares his keys to success in management, regardless of your industry. Avery Johnson overcame the odds as a player in the NBA

Provided with real information, will car buyers start making more informed decisions? When you're purchasing a car, it's easy to see the gas mileage of your potential new rides. They're plastered right there on the window; a helpful tip from the EPA.

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