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Business News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com. Cool Vendors 2011. Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products and services. Cool Vendors in 3D Printing, 2013 Formlabs | MakerBot | Mcor Technologies | Organovo | Sculpteo Get beyond the hype. 3D printing offers very real quantitative and qualitative benefits as well as opportunities to sell new business and consumer goods, today.

Our first Cool Vendors report dedicated to 3D printing highlights five of the companies impacting the market that you need to know about. Cool Vendors in Analytics, 2013 Dynaplan | Fractal Analytics | Grok | Hicare Research | Opera Solutions By delivering various combinations of domain expertise and higher levels of automation, this year's vendors improve the analytic accuracy, adoption and productivity of organizations. Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2013 Crossing-Tech | Push Technology | Waratek | WebRatio Cool Vendors in Brazil, 2013. Steve Jobs: A Perfect CEO - HBR IdeaCast. An interview with Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired and author of The Perfect Thing and Insanely Great. For more commentary, see our special section, The Legacy of Steve Jobs.

Download this podcast SARAH GREEN: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green. Today we’re remembering Steve Jobs with Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired and author of many books, including The Perfect Thing, about the iPod, and Insanely Great, about the Macintosh. He interviewed Steve Jobs many times over the decades. Steven, thanks so much for talking with us today. STEVEN LEVY: My pleasure. SARAH GREEN: I’ve been watching just the outpouring of emotion in the wake of Steve Jobs’ death. SARAH GREEN: You’ve actually described him as a perfect CEO. STEVEN LEVY: Well, what do you look for in a CEO? You just go down the line of anything you want in someone who runs the company, and he fulfilled that. STEVEN LEVY: There are few of them. One example, in the example of the iPod.

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