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The Next Disruptors (15 October 11:00) |
| Watch out, Microsoft, GE, United, AT&T, and, yes, even Google. Here come 10 game-changing startups with plans to upend existing industries and spawn new opportunities for the rest of us. |
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The hijack-proof truck (04 October 06:12) |
| You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to hea... |
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Live chat: your new online salesperson (04 October 05:52) |
| A year or two ago, it looked like instant messaging and other forms of online chat had reached their full potential as a business tool. Millions of people were using IM to interact with corp... |
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Server farm goes solar (04 October 02:24) |
| Massive data centers are vital to the economy. They are also notorious power hogs. If their numbers keep growing at the expected rate, the United States alone will need nearly a dozen new po... |
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Say goodbye to the used-car salesman (03 October 05:26) |
| In late 2005, Stanford student Luke Thomas tried to buy a Land Rover online. After a few frustrating days of trawling Craigslist and driving around the Bay Area, only to find cars that looke... |
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Privacy for free online calls (03 October 04:00) |
| What's more creepily brilliant than ads that follow you around the Web? How about a Skype-like online phone service that listens in on your conversations and serves up ads based on what you ... |
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A hard-knock laptop (03 October 12:18) |
| Computer makers are thrilled when, in today's PC market, they can get more than $1,500 for a high-end laptop. That's why Panasonic's Toughbook line is a standout. |
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The kopy kat kids (03 October 12:15) |
| The Samwer brothers never been shy about borrowing ideas. The first company the Cologne-born trio founded was a German-language version of eBay. Later, as venture capitalists, they invested ... |
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Nana technology (02 October 10:01) |
| Where can you find upside in the mature high-tech gadget business? Selling gadgets designed for seniors. |
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Field test: travel alarm clocks (28 September 11:03) |
| Shove aside the standard-issue hotel clock radio, with its stuck-in-the-'70s fake-wood finish and cryptic I-sure-hope-I-set-this-thing-right controls. |
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4 must-have gadgets (28 September 04:24) |
| Here are four gadgets - recommended by readers - that will make your work life easier: A razor that saves both time and your face; a backpack that looks good in the boardroom; a projector th... |
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The car of no return (28 September 03:29) |
| My final leson for you all? Never, ever, drive a nice car. There's no upside to it. Luxury rides are evil: insidious, stealthy things, burrowing into the human subconscious with terrifying e... |
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PG&E's green power (28 September 01:33) |
| A 22-foot-long, neon-green banner hangs from the high-ceilinged lobby of the San Francisco headquarters of Pacific Gas & Electric, California's largest utility. "GREEN IS resisting the urge ... |
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The Web's local mogul (27 September 11:24) |
| The two Web multimillionaires had never crossed paths, but when Russell C. Horowitz and Frank Schilling finally met to talk business three years ago, the summit began in style - sipping soft... |
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Biodiesel boom heads to Wall Street (27 September 07:12) |
| Way back in 2006, John "Bish" Neuhauser was the poster child of the biodiesel business. The shaggy-looking snow groomer for the Canyons ski area near Park City, Utah, starred in the acclaime... |
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The village that could save the planet (27 September 07:11) |
| We're rumbling across eastern Colombia in a convoy of military jeeps and pickup trucks. Salsa music blasts out of speakers somewhere, and an unrelenting 100-degree sun is bleaching the bone-... |
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Dell: We're going carbon neutral (26 September 11:58) |
| The tech giant announced that it will become the first computer maker to neutralize its greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Google adds video to its custom alerts (26 September 08:23) |
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Green power (26 September 07:31) |
| A 22-foot-long, neon-green banner hangs from the high-ceilinged lobby of the San Francisco headquarters of Pacific Gas & Electric, California's largest utility. "GREEN IS resisting the urge ... |
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Biodiesel boom heading toward Wall Street (26 September 07:24) |
| Way back in 2006, John "Bish" Neuhauser was the poster child of the biodiesel business. The shaggy-looking snow groomer for the Canyons ski area near Park City, Utah, starred in the acclaime... |
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4 smart housing plays (26 September 06:58) |
| From snapping up condos on the cheap to tapping the social networking craze to find the best deals, there are ways to work the housing slump to your - and your bank account's - advantage. |
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The Startup King's new gig (26 September 03:25) |
| Some people can't stop thinking about food. Bill Gross can't stop thinking about new businesses. One of the world's great serial entrepreneurs, he's launched more than 50 startups through Id... |
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10 cities ready to bounce back (25 September 06:39) |
| The housing market may be melting down, but prices are near rock bottom in these places - and offer opportunities for savvy investors to get in now. |
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Apple stores: How crowded are they? (24 September 06:52) |
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What's my favorite car? It's an Audi (21 September 03:17) |
| After five years of writing this column, I'm about to shed all objectivity. Before I do, however, let's review some numbers. During the past half decade, I've tested - though not always writ... |
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Home design made easy on the Web (20 September 09:04) |
| When Jeroen Bekkers's parents wanted to move into a new home in the Netherlands eight years ago, they enlarged their blueprints and made paper cutouts to help visualize how all their tables ... |
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Solar startup names energy industry vet as CEO (20 September 08:09) |
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Self-made condo conversions (19 September 03:31) |
| You can choose the design of your phone, your computer, and your car - so why not your condominium? |
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7 edgy new PC designs (18 September 08:38) |
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Web opportunist cuts out middlemen (18 September 08:15) |
| David Carter has a knack for discovering more offbeat approaches to making money. When I wrote about him for this column last year ("The Startup Facade," October 2006), he had just stumbled ... |
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Interactive ads save newspapers (18 September 02:02) |
| Newspaper ad sales are expected to decline 5 percent in 2007, so it's no surprise that print publications are eager to squeeze more cash out of their Web sites. |
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European carriers reportedly gear up for iPhones (17 September 06:43) |
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Our picks for ... office chairs (14 September 05:01) |
| The Aeron, that mesh-backed trophy of the dotcom era, is no longer the top office throne. Today's task chairs offer handy controls, unparalleled ergonomics, and myriad settings. The details ... |
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Crowdsourcing the electric car (14 September 12:21) |
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Online game aspires to Pokemon success (13 September 04:31) |
| Most adults still find Pokémon difficult to grasp. The numbers are easier: The franchise, originally based on a trading-card game, has raked in a total of $15 billion for owner Nintendo. It... |
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Google kicks off $10M green car challenge (12 September 10:17) |
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iPhone rebellion against AT&T grows (12 September 08:31) |
| Want to free your iPhone from AT&T's service? You can find out how for free on the Internet, writes Philip Elmer-DeWitt. |
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Love, e-company style (12 September 06:13) |
| For Ben and Mena Trott, there was never any doubt about which of them would be the voice of their startup. After all, she was the one who strode into the Baskin-Robbins in Petaluma, Calif., ... |
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AMD chief talks tough about Intel (11 September 09:03) |
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iPhone sales soar on price cut: Analyst (11 September 06:40) |
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Farming goes vertical (11 September 03:28) |
| The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world o... |
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Medicine goes 2.0 (10 September 10:37) |
| Can camera-equipped mobile phones make families healthier? One Canadian company says yes. Quebec-based Myca already has a hit with a service called MyFoodPhone, which lets users snap photos ... |
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Intel's sunny outlook timed to overshadow AMD (10 September 10:36) |
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The parking meter you'll love (07 September 05:01) |
| Few of us would expect to get rich selling parking meters. But meters generate hundreds of millions of dollars for cities every year, and since 50 percent of parking fines go unpaid, accordi... |
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Two Buck Chuck takes a bite out of Napa (07 September 01:29) |
| There's a war on bluster, and Fred Franzia is losing. Sure, the CEO of Bronco Wine, the nation's fourth-largest wine company, tells me repeatedly that only a sucker would pay more than $10 f... |
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10 reasons for the iPhone price cut (06 September 08:39) |
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New iPod nano: up close (06 September 07:17) |
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Tenacious technology for Internet ads (06 September 04:26) |
| As lucrative as Internet advertising can be, almost all of it is wasted. Companies are set to shell out a total of $19.9 billion for online ads this year, but just 2 percent of the Web surfe... |
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Beware the corporate raters (05 September 04:19) |
| About 20 years ago, a Stanford business school colleague and I launched an executive education program for board directors - one of the first in the United States to offer training in board ... |
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All eyes on Steve Jobs tomorrow (04 September 11:40) |
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