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Why Utah Matters To Virgin, Amazon, And LeBron James

The Foundry, a Salt Lake City training ground for entrepreneurs, is challenging some long-held notions about how startup incubators should work--and captivating everyone from Armenian businessmen to Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. READ MORE

How To Identify Your Customers, Make Them Love You, And Keep Them Hooked

Every company is struggling to nail down their core target group. If only they could define it, life--or at least business--would be a whole lot easier. READ MORE

Surf And Destroy (Old Business Models)

What do a countertop company and a surfboard company have in common? Both are run by Ken Trinder, whose novel anti-microbial countertop may soon be seen in hospitals.READ MORE

Personal Capital's Beautiful App Convinces The Wealthy To Trust Their Money To Strangers

Former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris builds a "high tech, high touch" app and service to manage all your money in a single place.READ MORE

Scandal Brewing Over Facebook's Actions At IPO

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America's Most Innovative Neighborhood: 15 Square Miles In New Mexico, Population: 0

A shiny new city rising in the desert is designed to be a testing ground for everything from wireless networks to self-driving cars. One catch: It's totally empty. READ MORE

How An E-Invoicing Company Could Disrupt The Banking Industry

Tradeshift is using real-time data to change the way rates get set for small business loans.READ MORE

Pop Goes The Pivot

What do The Beastie Boys, Katy Perry, and PayPal have in common? They all pivoted. READ MORE

The Discovery Economy: When Digital App Play Leads To Real-Life Finds

Your smartphone may be a paragon of digital wonder, and if you fire up a navigation app it can even take you places in the real world. But it's poised to become a much cleverer and more rewarding way to introduce you to new (real) things.READ MORE

Hey Shopaholics, This Little Birdy Will Keep An Eye On What You Are Spending

The busy personal finance tracking space has yet more company. The Birdy, a cutesy, emoticon-happy service, aims to stop you from busting your budget. But The Birdy's emailed chirps don't mean you must always be cheap.READ MORE

Dr. Leslie Saxon's Quest: iTunes For The Quantified Self

Feeling under the weather? In the future, you'll take out your smartphone--not to call your doctor, but to check your own vitals.READ MORE

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches Toward ISS [Updated: Scotty Aboard]

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Hey Facebook, Google Is Still The Most Talked-About IPO In Internet History

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Everyme And Social Networking's Future

Everyme attracted nearly half a million users in their first month of operation. Here's why they jumped to the web and Android so quickly--and why Facebook's success is good news for other social networking services.READ MORE

Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention

Forget Schrodinger's Cat: The cutting edge of applied quantum science is in a new type of space drive for satellites and probes patented by a 19-year-old Egyptian student.READ MORE

Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff

From Bogota to Tunisia, “bad diplomat” Suzanne Philion has spent a decade shaking up old-school notions of a career in Foreign Service.READ MORE