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Conferences You Don't Want To Miss In June 2012

BY FAST COMPANY STAFF | 04-27-2012 | 12:44 PM | MAGAZINE

KEY (OUT OF FIVE): LEARNABILITY: SCHMOOZABILITY: COSTABILITY: June 6th InnoTown Innovation Conference, Alesund, Norway Learn from CEOs, physicists, and Barack Obama's chief blogger. ...READ MORE›

Square Vs. NCR: Disruptive Innovation In Action

BY Austin Carr | 04-18-2012 | 8:00 AM | INNOVATION

Who will win the future of mobile payments? "We think Square is a great solution if you're a hobbyist," says Christian Nahas, NCR's VP of specialty retail.READ MORE›

NCR Rivals PayPal As Square's Scariest Competitor

BY Austin Carr | 04-09-2012 | 8:00 AM | INNOVATION

In June, NCR is slated to launch NCR Silver, a new product that will enable merchants to accept payments via iPad or iPhone, just like solutions from Square, Intuit, and PayPal. READ MORE›

Reader's Feedback: March 2012

BY Fast Company Staff | 03-30-2012 | 1:40 PM | MAGAZINE

Illustration by Peter Oumanski The Apple Option Should Apple be No. 1 ("The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies")? Maybe. Maybe not. But it's important to keep in mind that Apple makes items that are highly optional. No one ...READ MORE›

High-End Pinterest Competitor Fancy Launches Commerce Platform With Help From Jack Dorsey

BY Austin Carr | 02-23-2012 | 8:32 AM | INNOVATION

They've got backing from PPR, the French conglomerate that owns Gucci and Bottega Veneta, a board that includes Twitter's Jack Dorsey and original Facebooker Chris Hughes, and the endorsement of Kanye. How Fancy is that? READ MORE›

Team Obama's Custom-Built Square App: First Look

BY Austin Carr | 01-30-2012 | 5:46 PM | SQUARE

Team Obama is gearing up for a big reelection battle this year, and to bolster its chances against its future Republican rival, the campaign is streamlining its fundraising efforts by adopting Square, the mobile credit card reader for ... READ MORE›

Can Ad-Littered Twitter Keep Its Cool?

BY Austin Carr | 08-03-2011 | 2:00 PM | INNOVATION

Twitter is experiencing growing pains. Last week, the company said it would integrate Promoted Tweets into user Twitter streams, placing them at the top of one's timeline. Here's expert opinion on how or if the once-breezy service can follow in the footsteps of ubiquitous ad machine Facebook.READ MORE›

What Instagram Plans To Do With 150 Million Photos And Faster Growth Than Flickr

BY Austin Carr | 08-03-2011 | 12:19 PM | INNOVATION

In just nine months, the photo-sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per second). Founder Kevin Systrom tells Fast Company what's next. READ MORE›

Square Adds Former Obama Economic Advisor Larry Summers To Its Board

BY E.B. Boyd | 06-22-2011 | 12:09 PM | MANAGEMENT

It looks like Square's ambitions are growing. Just recently, it added VC superstar Vinod Khosla to its board of directors. Now comes an announcement that former Obama Chief Economic Advisor (and former Harvard president) Larry Summers is also coming on board.READ MORE›

Why Kevin Systrom Turned Down Zuckerberg, Left Twitter To Start Instagram

BY Austin Carr | 06-13-2011 | 12:00 PM | INNOVATION

That Kevin Systrom would be involved with one of the most buzzed-about social networks today is perhaps unsurprising. His career pre-Instagram foreshadowed his success: interactions with Facebook founders long before Facebook was Facebook; an internship at Twitter before Twitter was Twitter. But he left it all behind to start Instagram.READ MORE›

The 10 Most Creative People On Twitter

BY Kevin Ohannessian | 06-03-2011 | 4:42 PM | LEADERSHIP

For the third year in a row we have put together a list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. This year had the most Twitter users yet, with 36. Here's our Top Ten tweeters of 2011's MCP. READ MORE›

Twitter Adds Photo-Sharing To Its Service

BY E.B. Boyd | 06-01-2011 | 2:38 PM | INNOVATION

Tweets are now worth a thousand words.READ MORE›

How PayPal Sees Square, Future of Digital Payments

BY Austin Carr | 05-25-2011 | 1:23 PM | INNOVATION

"Existing models don't go away until they are replaced by models that work better," PayPal's Anuj Nayar tells us. "The consumer needs to see the benefit beyond, 'This is just cool.'"READ MORE›

Square Field Test: Whipping Out Jack Dorsey's Digital Wallet In The Wild

BY Austin Carr | 05-24-2011 | 11:23 AM | INNOVATION

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. READ MORE›

How Jack Dorsey's Square Is Accidentally Disrupting The Entire Payments Industry

BY E.B. Boyd | 05-23-2011 | 3:55 PM | INNOVATION

Dorsey and Square COO Keith Rabois talk to Fast Company about their unintentional, design-driven revolution, what it means for the cash register space, the deals space, and the future of buying ... everything.READ MORE›

Square Creates An App Store For Real-World Payments

BY E.B. Boyd | 05-23-2011 | 1:04 PM | INNOVATION

Jack Dorsey's Square has just created that for offline payments--the transactions you do with your local coffee shop, your favorite boutique, even your dog walker--anyone who uses the Square payment system.READ MORE›

Twitter Founders' Tweets Give Insight Into Twitter's Past

BY Austin Carr | 04-14-2011 | 11:36 AM | INNOVATION

Tweets from Twitter cofounders Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams confirm a recent report of the company's "true" history. READ MORE›

Is Noah Glass Twitter's Long Lost Winklevoss?

BY Austin Carr | 04-13-2011 | 3:56 PM | INNOVATION

Is the founding of Twitter the stuff of "The Social Network 2"? READ MORE›

Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey and the Ideas That Sparked a Revolution

BY Brian Solis | 04-06-2011 | 11:52 AM | LEADERSHIP

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter and Square. He has since rejoined Twitter as Executive Chairman and will focus on product development to further Twitter’s mainstream appeal.READ MORE›

Twitter Launches New Programs to Help Goose Revenue

BY Austin Carr | 04-05-2011 | 12:16 PM | INNOVATION

New branded pages and sales of tweet data and analytics, coupled with the company's Promoted Tweets and Trends, could help bolster Twitter's revenues, which have been pegged anywhere from $45 million to $150 million.READ MORE›