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Is Anxiety About Our Wired Choices Misplaced?

Instead of dialing up our anxiety about privacy in the changing online world, we should use it as an opportunity to question and test the security of everything–driver’s licenses, plastic credit cards, paper medical records.

LevelUp Will End Your Business’ Credit Card Processing Fees. Really.

Merchants shell out $50 billion a year to the companies that process your credit card payments. One company, LevelUp, is dropping its fees altogether. Here’s how they’re getting away with it.

Why You Should Reward (Some) Mistakes

Seth Priebatsch, “Chief Ninja” of SCVNGR, offers a new lens for looking at mistakes and determining which ones should actually be celebrated.

Bite-Sized Wisdom From Innovative Thinkers At Google, IBM, Airbnb, And More

Fast Company’s cameras hit up SXSW to get some inspiration from the innovative minds at companies such as Greylock Partners, NationalField, JESS3, and more. Click through for 30-second snippets of strategic tips from some of the most influential entrepreneurs in business today.

Scvngr’s Unique Approach To Growing Its Customer Base

3 Design Essentials For Early Adopters

3 Powerful Game Dynamics That Create Brand Superfans

Scvngr, T-Mobile Team For Mobile Payments On LevelUp

Taking Location-Based Services From Incomprehensible To Indispensable

The Internet, texting, email, electricity, and the iPod are just a few examples of real-life technology breakthroughs that people swore would never take off off. Here’s why location-based services will join that list.

Content Vs. Advertising: Which One Leads The Gaming Industry?

How will the worlds of advertising and gaming overlap? We ask two young CEOs with opposite approaches.

How SCVNGR And Founder Seth Priebatsch Hope To Win The Location Game

“We want consumers to have a great time,” says SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch, “and we also want business to love it enough that they’re willing to pay for it.”

SCVNGR, American Express Make It Less Awkward To Redeem Daily Deals

The 10 Most Innovative Web Companies

From Twitter to Zynga, these companies are revolutionizing how we interact on the Internet.

Does the World Need a Game Layer?

Star.me Makes the Web Messier, More Fun

Humorist and TED speaker Ze Frank tells FastCompany how his new startup can help save us from living our entire online lives in blue and white.

Why Scvngr’s “Chief Ninja” Is the Talk of SXSW

The Boston startup plans to disrupt Groupon and Foursquare by making a game that combines the genius of both, and imagines how the benefits of games can extend beyond business.

Let’s Get Physical: WeReward, Loopt, Others Push Users Into Real Stores