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Porsche Has an Identity Crisis Amid Its SUV Success

With SUVs yielding half of profits, the German automaker tries to retain its sports car cred

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Zack Parisa's Forest Inventory Software
The Yale grad and co-founder of startup SilviaTerra has developed a new method for taking forest inventories
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Google

Google’s Nexus 7: It's Here to Snuff Kindle's Fire
The new tablet is aimed at consumers but will appeal to geeks, too
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The Lucrative Business of Fake, Life-Size Dinosaurs
New Jersey's new Field Station: Dinosaurs raises the bar with a 90-foot, animatronic monster
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Wanted: Apps to Manage Your Money
The U.S. Treasury has a new competition to design personal finance mobile apps
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Mobile & Telecom

Before IPhone and Android Came Simon, the First Smartphone
Twenty years ago, IBM and BellSouth developed and sold the first smartphone, with touchscreen and card apps. Talk about a device being ahead of its time
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Ben Epstein's Wi-Fi Roaches
The vice president at defense contractor OpCoast uses insects to create wireless networks in areas that can't easily be reached
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Reinventing Business

Enterprise Technology: Revenge of the Nerdiest Nerds
Enterprise-focused startups will form the next wave of tech IPOs
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Emerging Markets

The Rise of Innovative State Capitalism
After years in the dark, state-run economies such as China's are now cutting-edge. Is free-market capitalism obsolete?
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Workplace

Kill Your Desk Chair—and Start Standing
Sitting all day takes years off your life, doctors say. So workers are turning to standing, sit-stand, and treadmill desks
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Sports

Why the U.S. Olympic Committee Cracked Down on a Knitting Group
The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ravelry can't host an Olympic-themed knitting competition
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Micha Benoliel's Open Garden
The startup makes a free app that lets one device share its connectivity with any other around it
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Mobile & Telecom

Comcast 'Invents' Its Own Private Internet
The feds probe whether cable companies steer users from Netflix, Hulu, and other rivals
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Workplace

Office Upgrade: The Post-It Desk
You'll never fumble for a piece of paper again when your desk is made of it
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Facebook

Will Facebook Friend Preteens?
The site is considering the under-13 set to revive growth, but courting them could affect its ad-centric business model
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A Content Cubbyhole for Avid Web Surfers
Nate Weiner's Pocket now boasts 5 million registered users
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