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Behind the Zhu Zhu mania
Zhu Zhu Pets, the inexplicably cute robotic hamsters that have become this year's overnight holiday toy sensation, are selling out across the country.
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Buffett's big bet: Trailing behind after lap one
Remember "Buffett's Big Bet", in which the noted investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway maintained that an S&P; 500 index fund would outperform five funds-of-hedge-funds over 10 years? Well, the results for the first lap, the agonizing year of 2008, ...
Women of power
Shot during the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, these portraits showcase some of the world's most influential leaders. Photographs by Robyn Twomey.
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Media companies and mobile: Asia envy
The future of media consumption is with the mobile device - at least the device as used in countries such as Japan, Korea and even China.
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CEO Swap: The $79 billion plan
On July 1, A.G. Lafley woke up at 6 a.m., worked out, showered, and headed to the office in downtown Cincinnati, just as he had for nearly a decade. But this was the first morning in more than 3,000 days that he was no longer the chief executive of ...
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How to build great leaders
For John Tolva, IBM's Chicago-based director of citizenship and technology, the value of his four-week assignment to Ghana last year really hit him during a game of Scrabble by candlelight.
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Richest dead celebrity: Bob Marley
Is reggae superstar Bob Marley bigger than Jesus? That's debatable, but the music legend who died 28 years ago is about to challenge Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for the title of richest dead celebrity.
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The man behind the netbook craze
A few years ago rivals mocked Asus chairman Jonney Shih. Now, Shih's having the last laugh.
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10 companies for leaders
IBM, led by CEO Samuel Palmisano, takes the top spot of best businesses for nurturing talent.
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Google Chrome OS - press event
Fortune's Jon Fortt live-blogs the event to showcase Google's new operating system.
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Sweet! Is Sugar the future of publishing?
Brainstorm Tech: The women-centric collection of sites is shaking up the web - and traditional media.
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Mixed forecasts for holiday spending
The stock market is up. Consumer confidence is down. Unemployment is way up. Gas prices are down.
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Ben Stein: 4 lessons from the recession
As I write this from real estate disaster-ridden but still-glorious Los Angeles, I read much speculation that the recession is over.
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The big financial pay pie
As the world knows, the public is up in arms about the compensation being paid at financial companies that owe their very existence to massive government help. Ordinary citizens, earning ordinary pay (or none at all), burn to see bankers and Wall ...
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An animation studio bets on the iPhone
At first glance, Albie Hecht's office is cluttered with toys -- a plush gorilla from the Mario Bros. video game, vinyl figurines from the toy line Kidrobot, to name a few. But in fact, they're all relics of the animation industry, where Hecht, 56, ...
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Fat cat pay - Then and now
It's unprecedented for the nation to be outraged about corporate pay, right? Not exactly: In the 1930s, as the Depression gripped the nation, furor about compensation rose to fever pitch, and Washington applied shears to salaries. In an article soon ...
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Forget $100 oil. $80 oil is a problem.
Are strapped American consumers on for another date with energy price misery?
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Smart phones. Smart networks. Now: smart packages
FedEx jumps on the "smart" wagon with a sophisticated web-based tracking service.
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Where social media's 'It Boy' cut his teeth
Brainstorm Tech: Before getting into gaming, Farmville's father was a player in the glam world of online tech support.
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Tech stocks off the beaten path
If you only look at its performance so far this year, Ivy Science & Technology, which has $1 billion in assets, doesn't look terribly impressive.
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Was 'screw the shareholders' BofA's attitude?
Today, Congress may finally be closing in on an answer to one of the great open questions from the Crash of 2008: Why did Bank of America management not tell its shareholders about the mounting fourth-quarter losses at Merrill Lynch a few weeks before ...
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3 worst deals of 2009
Thanksgiving is upon us. That makes it a perfect time to contemplate turkeys -- as in "What a turkey that deal was!"
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Get a green job in two years
Community colleges have long held second-class-citizen status in the world of higher education. But they've suddenly become top tier when it comes to one important thing: training for new green-economy jobs.
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Another key departure in the House of Murdoch
Another of Rupert Murdoch's key lieutenants over the past 10 years is leaving his company, News Corporation. The company is expected to announce tomorrow that Gary Ginsberg, the media giant's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, is ...
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Preparing China's yuan for the world stage
President Barack Obama's visit to China this week has increased the spotlight on one of the top hot-button issues in U.S.-China relations: revaluing the Chinese currency.
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Schmoozers like to schmooze online, too
Brainstorm Tech: Survey finds young executives embrace online social networking tools to market their companies and themselves.
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Why 'say on pay' won't work
Waiting for investors to slam the breaks on runaway executive pay? Don't hold your breath. Although Congress may give shareholders more of a say on pay soon, big money managers seem content to keep their mouths shut.
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How True Religion jeans got started
My dad was in the clothing business and moved to L.A. with a New York apparel company when I was 20. I asked if I could work for him. He said, "Why don't you get a job in textiles first and learn the industry?"
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Selling Detroit: May the best ad win
Five agencies compete for which ads best represent the Motor City.
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Intel settlement: The power of emails
Nine days after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made public emails to, from, and about current and former Intel CEOs Paul S. Otellini and Craig Barrett, Intel settled a four-year-old antitrust case that semiconductor rival AMD had filed ...
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Climate change in the executive suite
In a multimedia feature, DuPont's chief sustainability officer, Linda Fisher, talks about the future economy of a greener planet.
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Lessons from the land of cheap broadband
Brainstorm Tech: What happens when a telco practically gives it away ($13 for 100 megs!)?
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Intel settles with AMD. What's next?
In yesterday's settlement of AMD's worldwide antitrust claims against Intel, Intel agreed to pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In addition, the two companies renewed a longstanding patent cross-licensing deal, but with Intel agreeing to delete language from ...
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The mad man
The announcement of the CEO of the Decade apparently caught the 11th runner-up by surprise.
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Big changes in the cast at Disney
If you work at Walt Disney, you are not just an employee, you are a "castmember"-- and Thursday, the company boldly swapped the roles of two of its most senior executives.
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Making Detroit a tech hub - One mogul's vision
It is noon in downtown Detroit, a glorious autumn day in the nexus of the city's business district. A large crowd of people stride up the street toward a sleek, glass-walled tower in the Campus Martius complex.
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Making Detroit a tech hub - One CEO's vision
It is noon in downtown Detroit, a glorious autumn day in the nexus of the city's business district. A large crowd of people stride up the street toward a sleek, glass-walled tower in the Campus Martius complex.
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Lowering health-care costs for employees
Every business has felt the burden of ballooning medical costs, but few have focused as intently on keeping employees healthy as Paychex, the payroll and HR outsourcer based in Rochester, N.Y.
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New ETF is a way into smaller China
If Burton Malkiel, author of the famous "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" and Princeton University economist, is right, the majority of U.S. investors aren't profiting enough from China's rapid growth.
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Making Detroit a tech hub - One CEO's vision
It is noon in downtown Detroit, a glorious autumn day in the nexus of the city's business district. A large crowd of people stride up the street toward a sleek, glass-walled tower in the Campus Martius complex.
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China's record debt has economists worried
In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups.
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The three phases of Steve
Most books on Apple's CEO come in one of three genres: Hero, Creep or Creepy Genius.
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There are still too many houses
The lights are on in the housing market. But at more and more places, nobody's home.
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There are still too many houses
The lights are on in the housing market. But at more and more places, nobody's home.
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