Global Game
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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
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Online Storage Service Box's Mighty Ambitions
Box co-founder Aaron Levie has a humble goal in mind: Beat Microsoft and Oracle, among others, in the most lucrative game in software. With over $300 million in venture money raised and a mobile perspective on the future, the 28-year-old has a fighting chance
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Next Big Sound's Metrics for the Music Industry
Alex White’s Next Big Sound is using advanced statistics to transform a stubborn industry. Sounds familiar?
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Myntra's Big Leap Forward
At $100 million, Mukesh Bansal’s Myntra is already India’s largest online apparel seller. Now he’s got Shopper’s Stop in his sights. Even as Jabong and Flipkart have him in their’s
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How Caterpillar Got it Wrong in China
Caterpillar says it was duped when it lost half a billion dollars in China on an acquisition gone wrong. But maybe it should have seen it coming
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America's War Over Uranium Fracking
Deep in the heart of the Texas oil and gas boom, a tiny Canadian company has found a novel way to dredge up fuel for nuclear reactors. And it’s prompted the most unusual battle in America’s war over fracking
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David Karp's Multimillion Dollar Plans for Tumblr
Facebook is the internet’s phone book. Twitter is its wire service. In Tumblr, 26-year-old Karp has built the web’s canvas. Now can he shape it into a money machine?