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Picture an old-fashioned covered wagon . Now, imagine your job is to pull that wagon. The wagon carries all of the concerns and goals of your business; understandably, this is a pretty heavy wagon, so you consider finding someone to help you pull it.

The U.S. Trade Representative's Office has listed China's leading search engine Baidu as a key member on its list of global counterfeit-assisting services

Photograph by Jeff Minton Food styling: James Parker, founder of Veggie Art | Photograph by: Jamie Chung Jeff Dunn believes he can double the $1 billion baby-carrot business -- and promote healthy eating -- by marketing the vegetable like Doritos. His secret weapon? He knows every snack-marketing trick in the book.

After spending a couple days at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW or "South by," as the hipsters call it), my theory that there's a social app for everything is confirmed. While 99% of these social apps seem to add to the chaos of online living, one stood out as simplifying things: GroupMe . There are a lot of others jumping into this space including Mogwee ( owned by Ning ), Twilio , Beluga ( acquired by Facebook ), and numerous others

While trying to get out of my office and take a nice stroll around my office building, I noticed that I was hit with unwanted noise.

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It's not all beer-pong and barbeque at SXSW. Isn't the Interactive portion of the festival supposed to be about sharing ideas?

Nanotechnology developments continue apace: Brigham Young University has pushed the envelope of carbon nanotube tech and shown how to "grow" complex structures from the stuff. Meanwhile the Navy is interested in using nanotech robots to "grow" new nanotech robots. Carbon nanotube logos A team of physicists at Brigham Young University has developed an innovative new way to grow carbon nanotubes into complex structures that are much more precise than has previously been possible

Innovation is at the top of agendas for governments in the U.S. and U.K. Now the U.K

Bravia color-blasts San Francisco's streets. When announcing its new line of TVs, Sony enlisted Fallon, an agency based in London.

The rise of the tablet computer has me thinking about the future of computers. How many computers surround me right now? I have my office computer, my computer at home, a netbook, my smartphone, my BlueAnt…it seems like computers are everywhere.

With the click of a mouse, archaeologist Vince Gaffney proudly summons up a vision of an ancient landscape.

A reporter from 1010 WINS, a local news-radio station, dropped by the office the other day to interview me about great places to work. She had perused Inc.com and was impressed, she said, with the quality and quantity of articles on the subject