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Just five years ago – seventy-percent of Intel’s business came from the P-C market. Today – P-C’s only account for about half of Intel’s business. With factories, hospitals, cars, even home appliances - now requiring high performance computing, Intel’s business has evolved into something new. The company’s C-E-O, Robert Swan, joined Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech to talk about this evolution.

With more than 80-million active accounts – Synchrony is one of the world’s largest financial services companies. While you may not recognize the name – you might actually be a customer. Synchrony provides credit cards for more than one hundred stores and brands including Amazon, Lowe’s and American Eagle. Verizon is the latest company to announce it’s teaming up with Synchrony - offering customers its first consumer credit card.

Looking to shake up Valentine’s Day this year? Ducati has a new toy that may interest you. The Italian motorcycle brand – owned by Volkswagen – has unveiled its new Streetfighter V-4. It’s a stripped-down version of its popular Panigale (PAN-ee-gahl) sport bike but with some new high-tech features. Here’s Ducati’s North America C-E-O, Jason Chinnock. JASON CHINNOCK @ 1:06 “And it’s incredible.

At Salesforce, innovation is not only a core company value – it’s an entire department called the “Office of Innovation.” Vivianne Castillo (cas-TEE-yo) is an Innovation Consultant at Salesforce. She also happens to be a trained therapist. She helps C-suite executives navigate some of the human-centered pitfalls of innovation such as fear of failure and shame.

Agile. Disruptive. Data-driven. The list of business buzzwords surrounding innovation is endless. And no matter if a company is a shiny, new startup or a well-established brand – every business is just trying to find a way to keep up. Western Union falls into that later category - it’s been providing worldwide financial services for nearly 170-years.

A few months ago, a video of the Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll surfaced on LinkedIn. The clip showed Carroll and Microsoft’s U-S President, Kate Johnson, racing scooters through the company’s hallways. Complete with smack talking and employees cheering from their cubicles, the video gave us a peek inside Microsoft’s company culture.

You may be sick of hearing about the pending 5-G revolution… a topic that even made its way into this year’s Super Bowl ads. But it’s real. And it’s coming. And it’s good news for semiconductor companies like Qualcomm. They make the high-performance chips needed for the buildout of those 5-G networks across the world. Qualcomm’s C-E-O, Steve Mollenkopf, joined Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech to explain what industry execs need to do NOW to prepare for 5-G.

About this time last year, New England Patriots players were getting their playoff beards removed in a Super Bowl victory ‘shave-down’ – sponsored by the iconic razor brand Gillette. It was a successful P-R stunt for Gillette - the company that’s been keeping the world clean shaven for 120 years. But as more Americans are growing beards – and NOT shaving them off – sales of Gillette razors are dropping.

Land O’ Lakes. You probably think of it as the company that sells butter. Dig a little deeper and you’ll realize it also sells pet food and seeds for crops. But the Land O’ Lakes C-E-O, Beth Ford, likes to describe it as an “insight-driven tech company.” Why? Well, Land O Lakes is a farmer-owned co-op. This means the company has a very close relationship with the farmers that grow its products.

When he was in high school, Doug McMillon unloaded trucks at Walmart. Today, he’s the C-E-O of the world’s largest retailer. And McMillion wants to help others at Walmart find a similar path to career success. One way he’s encouraging this is by making big investments in his employees’ education. Launched in 20-18, Walmart offers its associates the chance to earn a college degree for a dollar a day.