Global Game
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The last days of Marissa Mayer?
The Yahoo CEO was viewed as a saviour back in 2012. But insiders say that she now leads a company without a vision or a viable turnaround plan. As top executives flee in droves, it's plausible that Mayer might soon join them
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Flipagram could be bigger than Instagram
How big? The last startup that had Michael Moritz and John Doerr on the same board was Google
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Carbon3D: The shape of things to come
Carbon3D is the latest hype-beast in 3D printing, but it has the best chance yet to reinvent manufacturing
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Wal-Mart and everyday renewable energy
Wal-Mart, long the bogeyman of the left, is making one of its long-held dreams a reality: Affordable green energy deployed on an industrial scale
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Alibaba and the 40,000 thieves
The world's biggest online retailer courses with an unprecedented torrent of counterfeit and sham goods, and neither the big brands, the Chinese government nor US pressure can do much about it. Jack Ma, the most powerful businessman in Asia, can. But shutting down the fakes would undermine his Alibaba empire
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China's 100 richest
Despite slowing growth, a stock market bubble that burst and a huge state debt, the wealth of China's richest has gone up by 20 percent
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Stewart and Lynda Resnick: America's nuttiest power couple
Fresh off sapping the water from a Pacific island and flogging pomegranate juice with questionable health claims, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire couple behind Fiji Water and POM Wonderful, are profiting off pistachios and almonds with the same combination of marketing genius and opportunistic water grabs amid California's worst drought on record
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Ian Read: Innovation's accountant
The price of Viagra—and other older drugs—is going up. Pfizer's Ian Read insists the problem is health insurance, not pharma
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The unicorn boom has just begun in US
Bubble? Hardly. Yes, many $1 billion startups are overvalued. But when viewed together and weighed against the first dotcom boom, they still represent a blockbuster investing moment
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Food tech startups are changing the way America's cooking
Blue Apron is selling dinner kits at a rate of $40 million a month and is valued at $2 billion. HelloFresh is at almost $3 billion, while Plated also has unicorn potential. Is this the future of food—or Webvan vs Kozmo redux?
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Mark Fields: Ford's fresh face
The new CEO of America's most successful car company must navigate a hypercompetitive future with threats from reinvigorated traditional rivals—and Apple, Google and Uber