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He also announced the SBA will double its investment in rural small business over the next five years. President Barack Obama told an audience in rural Iowa that economic recovery must be led by small businesses and entrepreneurs and "isn't going to be driven by Washington." Obama was opening a forum on the rural economy at Northeast Community College in Peosta on his second of three days travelling by bus through the Midwest. Tuesday he also announced that the Small Business Administration will double its current rate of investment in rural small businesses to $350 million over the next five years.

By 2015, $144 million will be spent annually on cybersecurity tools for electric vehicles. Hacker attacks on electric vehicles couldn't just spoof credit card numbers or power a car for free--they could also potentially take down the grid. Electric cars can go fast, have increasingly impressive battery lives, help drivers save money, and help wean economies off of oil.

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Someecards co-founder and CEO Duncan Mitchell discusses the challenges of an online start-up and how his company tries to keeping innovating in the e-card industry.

Agencies: if you really want to emulate a tech startup, create utility, put skin in the game and ask, What Would Edison Do? The “Why ad agencies should act more like tech startups” meme has been making the rounds for some time in the form of provocative tweets, panel discussions and blog posts . The conversation tends to focus on social media strategy and incorporating tech talent into creative teams.

Who needs sun and dirt? PlantLab is the latest in hydroponic, lightless plant growing, so any food can be local. There is no shortage of hydroponic produce startups aiming to capitalize on the world's growing desire for fruits and vegetables that don't need to be trucked in thousands of miles to their destination

The popular game series Deus Ex taps real-world science for its latest installment of a transhuman dystopia. Will Rosellini is a science fiction purist.

Sony has scored an exclusive lead on other e-readers in selling copies of Harry Potter as e-texts, industry sources tell The Register . It's all a part of Pottermore, the upcoming online Potter portal.

Many have threatened to leave Netflix. But do they have anywhere to go? Supposed "Netflix killers" in the space are going after its customers--even if they offer very different services, and in certain instances, more expensive prices.

Running a restaurant has never been easier, thanks to the iPad. De Santos is the first in New York to run its restaurant completely off Apple's tablets

A 22-year-old inventor combines two old technologies into a bicycle that saves energy when it brakes and can then accelerate without pedaling. The technology of a flywheel is simple and old: Use energy to spin up a wheel very quickly.

B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well

It looks like a regular overpass, but it's not for cars, it's for bears. Highway designs that allow animals to pass over or under without becoming road kill are getting more and more common, but will they work in the Serengeti, when the road crosses the largest animal migration in the world?

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What does an infant's affinity to Apple say about how technology affects us and our daily lives? As part of an experiment for my forthcoming book Brandwashed, I lined up 20 babies between the ages of 14 and 20 months. I then handed each one a BlackBerry