Cross Border
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The Reinvention of Paul Reed Smith Guitars
Paul Reed Smith knows he can’t outsell Gibson and Fender. So, he’s trying to turn the humble guitar into a Stradivarius
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Mississippi and the Struggling River Barge Industry
The great drought of 2012 was the worst disaster to hit the Mississippi River in 50 years. Will it turn into an even bigger mess for taxpayers?
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Milwaukee: An Emerging Water Technology Hub
How to turn around a struggling industrial city like Milwaukee? Become the global technology hub for a resource they know better than anyone
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Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn's Tale of Aggression
Freed from investors and flush with cash, Carl Icahn is targeting companies by the dozen. The bigger, the better (just ask Michael Dell)
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Will Firefox be the Newest OS for Smartphones?
Firefox the browser wants to be Firefox the smartphone in another brave run at the Apple-Google duopoly
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How Palo Alto Network's Shaking Up the Internet Security Market
Nir Zuk mixed brilliant engineering with a perpetual grudge to build the hottest company in internet security
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Kraft Foods' Cookie Crumbles
Irene Rosenfeld blew up Kraft promising to spark growth. Six months and two underwhelming quarters later, investors are still waiting
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Oil Firm Chevron and its Cash Overflow
Chevron is unloved by investors and by the residents of its home base. No matter: John Watson has built a cash-laden profit machine that’s poised for the greatest oil strike in the history of energy
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NanoRacks Allows Scientific Research in Space
Want to do biological research in zero gravity? You’ll have to go through a tiny firm called NanoRacks
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Altair Engineering and the Evolution of Everyday Things
Today’s most advanced engineering software is taking us back to nature
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Lookout's Mobile Security Battle with Google
Lookout built a 30 million-user business protecting Google’s phones. Now it has to fend off Google itself