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We are looking for a Back-end Programmer to join the Fast Company development group in downtown New York City. You consider yourself a programmer, but could easily get a job as a system administrator

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.

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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The simplest way to cut down on energy use isn't to build millions of brand-new LEED-certified buildings; it's to convince people to make changes themselves.

It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts, stop going to school and start getting real--in business. One climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

For Amazon, the deep discount wasn't a random bout of charity--it represented a huge opportunity to present consumers with an alternative to iTunes, and to introduce its cloud-based music service. How'd that go? Behold, the power of Lady Gaga.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has signed a provisional bill that would allow manufacturers of tablet PCs to sidestep a 9.25% social-security tax and benefit from a reduction in the industrial-production tax, which would drop from 15% to 3%.

We are looking for a Senior Front-end Developer to join the Fast Company design team. You should be extremely comfortable being creative within the technical confines of modern web development.

Microsoft just revealed its Windows Phone 7.1, a hotly anticipated update to its smartphone OS that boasts more than 500 new features. But it's not due on new phones until the fall--perfectly timed to coincide with the next iPhone arrival.

What would happen if there were an oil disaster in the Arctic?

Blood spatters are telltale marks of violent crimes, and have captured the public imagination in shows like Dexter, CSI, and Bones--shows whose cool tech may be less based in reality than special effect. For instance, it's only just now been worked out how to determine the height from which blood droplets fell.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Amazon Getting In The Tablet Game? Amazon is rumored to be prepping 7- and 10-inch tablets with proprietary operating systems, for the low, low prices of $349 and $449, respectively (cheaper than their Android counterparts)