The open-top counterpart to the Superleggera, Spyder Performante is 143 pounds lighter than its predecessor, the Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder, thanks to the enormous amount of carbon fiber used in its body and components.

FORBES: Connect

Verizon's legal negotiations with Smithtown's government started in July after the company had built a "significant amount" of its fiber network.

FORBES: Verizon's Big TV Bet Goes Small-Town

Worldcom was one of the first carriers to deploy a newfangled technology called "dense wavelength division multiplexing" (FORBES, Oct. 7, 1997) that greatly increases the amount of traffic an existing fiber-optic cable can carry.

FORBES: Grand illusions

The rush to Bangladesh began in earnest in 2005, when an international trade quota system called the Multi Fiber Arrangement expired, lifting the strict limit on the amount of textiles and garments developing countries could export to developed countries.

WSJ: American Taste for Cheap Clothes Fed Bangladesh Boom