We’re hiring a New York- or San Francisco-based technology reporter.
FastCompany.com is hiring a technology reporter to cover the companies that are driving consumer computing hardware and software forward—and battling to build the operating system for our lives. Examples of these types of companies include, but are not limited to, Samsung, Google, and Apple.
Post Script is an ode to diminishing industries.
When the U.S. Postal Service announced controversial plans to shutter over 3,600 rural offices, it was framed as a necessary cost-saving measure based on high operation expenses versus low revenue. But the equation didn’t capture the human element: people who depend on the post office as a lifeline to their community.
From pawn shops to mosques, a new project aims to document all the ways that the franchise’s once-iconic huts have been repurposed.
These days, you’ll find Pizza Huts everywhere, from shopping mall food courts to nondescript retail storefronts. But in their glory days, Pizza Hut locations were every bit as iconic for their odd, hut-shaped structures as McDonald’s is for its golden arches. And over the years, the rule that every Pizza Hut franchise should be shaped like a hut has lapsed. The old huts still live on, however, passing into a second life where they’ve been repurposed into everything from grocery stores to funeral homes.
Marketers need to stick to their guns when it comes to corporate rebranding.
In early September, Verizon unveiled a new logo, part of a larger rebranding effort aimed at projecting transparency in a product category known for complexity and opacity. According to Michael Bierut, a partner at Pentagram, which created the new logo, “simplicity, reliability, and focus on the customer” was the guiding spirit.
As the show kicks off its latest season, host Andrew Zimmern gives us a glimpse at some of his most bizarre food adventures yet.
The culinary conga line that is Bizarre Foods has been on the air for almost 10 years, and in that time, host Andrew Zimmern has had to eat enough suspicious, ridiculous dishes to last a lifetime.
Scientists are discovering that no matter how unappetizing a substance seems, there’s always someone in the animal kingdom willing to eat it.
Plastics like polystyrene—otherwise known as styrofoam—have long been thought nonbiodegradable. In landfills or the open environment, they’re known for staying intact, even as they break into pieces. They change shape and form, but never completely go away.
Moments, previously known as Project Lightning, is Twitter’s big plan to attract and hold on to new users.
A day after Twitter announced that cofounder Jack Dorsey would officially become its new CEO, the social network is revealing the biggest change to Twitter since images in tweets. Moments, previously known as Project Lightning, is a new section of Twitter that will show users curated streams of tweets around newsworthy topics, including entertainment, sports, and breaking news events.
As Instagram turns 5, we had an exclusive chat with cofounder Kevin Systrom and his design team about how they haven’t ruined it.
Today, Instagram turns five years old.
The Computer History Museum is making room for an innovative gadget that arrived in 1982 and has never stopped evolving.
By definition, any computing platform invented in the first half of the 1980s that has survived until 2015—and is an enormous business—has accomplished something remarkable. There’s the Windows PC, which traces its heritage back to the original IBM PC announced in August 1981. There’s the Mac, which famously debuted in January 1984.
A background in financial journalism is a must.
Fast Company is hiring a business writer with a background in financial journalism to produce several news articles a week for fastcompany.com. This reporter will be responsible, in particular, for covering companies that are either headed to IPO or have already gone public, as well as the fintech industry.
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