Cross Border
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Why Cannes Matters for the Advertising Industry
An award is an advertisement for the creative agency. That explains why ad agencies spend a fortune to go to the south of France
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How Cree Perfected The 20-Year Lightbulb
How a North Carolina LED maker built a better mousetrap—and doubled its market cap to $7 billion in just one year
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Can We Get a Decent Smartphone Camera?
Rambus invented a sensor that captures light as the human eye sees it. It may sell big if consumers stop caring about megapixels
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How iRobot is Invading Your Life
The end of iRobot’s military boom focussed it on figuring out how to make money off civilians
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Has Tapad Cracked the Code of Cross-Device Advertising?
Advertisers love Tapad because it can track and target you across your desktop, tablet and smartphone. Privacy advocates and Congress? Not so much
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Why Facebook Should have bought Waze
The social media giant has a mobile problem. Navigation startup Waze could have been the $1 billion answer
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Cheniere Energy's War with Chemical Companies Over Natural Gas
Cheniere Energy’s Charif Souki intends to turn the US natural gas boom into a new American export. Chemical company CEOs have allied with Washington regulators to hamper his cause. So much for free markets
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Mega and the Revenge of Kim Dotcom
The FBI and the movie studios executed his last company. But his new startup—with 3 million users in less than three months—won’t be so easy to kill
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Is Supercell the Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever?
In less than a year, Supercell has launched two of the biggest apps in Apple’s history. It’s now grossing $70 million—a month
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How Marc Beer Scipted Aegerion Pharma's Success Story
Marc Beer was done starting companies—until he met a doctor who could help patients with a rare and terrible disease. Investors couldn’t be happier
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Enstitute's Entrepreneurship Lessons for College Dropouts
Can entrepreneurship be taught? Enstitute is taking a novel approach—giving (mostly) college dropouts two-year jobs with well-known founders