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50 Smartest Companies 2015

July/August 2015

Massive solar panel factories. Fertility treatments. Friendly robots. Meet the companies reshaping the technology business.

Letter from the editor

The Business Package

Features

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Who Will Own the Robots?
We’re in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in AI and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?
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Cyber-Espionage Nightmare
A groundbreaking online-spying case unearths details that companies wish you didn’t know about how vital information slips away from them.
Categorized in Biotechnology
Biotech’s Coming Cancer Cure
Supercharge your immune cells to defeat cancer? Juno Therapeutics believes its treatments can do exactly that.
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Rebooting the Automobile
Automakers and tech companies are racing to bring safer and more useful smartphone-style interfaces to cars. Can any of them go further and reprogram vehicles completely?
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Speeding Up 3-D Printing
A company’s novel technology could make custom medical devices and car parts— not to mention shoes that fit just right.

Also in this issue
- China’s Climate Challenge
  Rapid industrialization and rising standards of living have made China the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide. Preventing a runaway increase will require the country to keep per capita emissions at a relatively low level.
  Categorized in 17037
- Survival in the Battery Business
  Backing from disparate investors such as General Motors and a vacuum maker has given the battery startup Sakti3 an unusual amount of momentum.
  Categorized in 17037
- The New Water Cooler
  A startup’s approach to making work communication searchable could change how we stay connected at the office.
  Categorized in 17032
- Slowing the Biological Clock
  A new treatment for infertility eventually could improve women’s prospects for having babies later in life.
  Categorized in 17035
- The Wait-for-Google-to-Do-It Strategy
  America’s communications infrastructure is finally getting some crucial upgrades because one company is forcing competition when regulators won’t.
  Categorized in 17041
- The Struggle for Accurate Measurements on Your Wrist
  Wearable devices are getting more advanced, but can today’s technology really measure our health?
  Categorized in 17041
- The End of Drudgery
  From the Great Depression, a call to embrace the benefits of machinery.
  Categorized in Uncategorized

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