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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.

Yep, they are 30-day hack-a-thons--and they are helping launch big products, including Facebook Deals. Welcome to what one Facebooker calls "a playground for engineers." Tech giants such as Google to Facebook are famous for hack-a-thons, all-night marathon coding sessions where eager employees build something unrelated to their current projects

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls. Fast Company recently had the opportunity to speak with David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree , on the use of his company's popular Hotspot Shield software during the Arab Spring. Although Hotspot Shield is best known as a product used to access services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer across national borders, it also played a crucial role in organizing uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.

In honor of National Small Business Week, Paychex--the payroll, HR, and benefits company-- has launched an online business resource kit for entrepreneurs. The site features articles and tools from Paychex, links to online resources from the U.S

Stewart Prager, a well-known plasma physicist and fusion scientist with a distinguished career and a record of discovery at the University of Wisconsin, arrived in January 2009 as director of PPPL, the United States’ leading magnetic fusion facility. Fusion energy, which is fueled by hot gases of charged particles known as plasma, has the potential to become a safe, clean and abundant energy source for the future. For nearly 60 years, Princeton has been a world leader in research on magnetic fusion energy due to efforts by scientists and engineers at PPPL

Qualcomm and the X Prize are offering money for a device that can spot diseases better than a doctor.

Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android, just as new stats confirm Android is "winning" the smartphone war. What comes next? Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android.

Who says to innovate, you have to pile on more technology? Sometimes a personal touch is the game-changer

PGT: In a radio interview in Atlanta, John Daly likely shared too much about his knowledge (or espoused knowledge) of Tiger Woods' sex life when married to Elin Nordegren.

Photograph Daryl Visscher Illustration by Gluekit Amit Bhatia, Founder and CEO of Aspire. Illustration by Gluekit .blue { color:rgb(0,113,146); font-weight:bold; } BIG IDEA: To supply India's booming economy with millions of young workers who come from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds.

If every company institutionally implemented innovation practices, we might all be just as successful as Pixar, Apple, or 3M.

The New Consumers are here. They're youthful, wired, educated and mostly female--and they’re just as concerned with practical values like price, quality and convenience as they are with do-gooder values like local, organic and fair trade. These shoppers make up 30% of the U.S

How do you get people to speak more candidly than they might care to? In most cases, some amateur psychology does the trick, says Greg Hartley, a former U.S. Army interrogator and co-author of The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read.

Would you use a pair of skis made out meat and bone meal? What if it meant they were biodegradable and cut down on landfill waste?

We continue our examination of the business book The Rise of the Creative Class with an interview of author Richard Florida. How did the book come about and where is the creative class congregating today? What was the impetus for you to write The Rise of the Creative Class?