April 1, 2018 / Fortune Asia / Volume 177 / Number 4

FEATURES

DIGITAL HEALTH
Big Data Meets Biology
By ERIKA FRY and SY MUKHERJEE
Just about everyone agrees that America’s health care system is broken. Is better data the medicine we’ve been looking for?
Fortune goes deep into tech’s next big wave.
PAGE NO. 24

Inside Bar軋’s Global Empire
By VIVIENNE WALT
Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona has an aggressive game plan to grow its sales-especially in the U.S. At home, it remains a symbol of Catalonian pride.
PAGE NO. 36

Second to None, but Still Number Two
By LEIGH GALLAGHER
Tech firms are hiring top-performing women to be their chief operating officers. But do these jobs represent a prelude to a CEO role-or a new glass ceiling?
PAGE NO. 46

Deep in Debt
By SHAWN TULLY
The White House and U.S. CEOs’ celebration of historic tax cuts won’t last long: Government deficits are on the verge of swamping the economy.
PAGE NO. 56

DEPARTMENTS

BRIEFING

7 The Quest to Clean Up the Internet
Silicon Valley firms are hiring thousands of human moderators to help police a flood of fake and criminal content online. It won’t be enough.
By MICHAL LEV-RAM

10 Food Giants Look to Fido for Growth
Pet food sales are climbing, driving a hunger for acquisitions.
By PHIL WAHBA

FOCUS

VENTURE

11 A Very Grubby Business
Why insects might be part of the solution for a looming food crisis.
By VIVIENNE WALT

TECH

14 Is Snapchat’s Redesign Brilliant-or a Blunder?
A disruptive change to the mobile app has some users up in arms.
By CHRISTINA AUSTIN and ANDREW NUSCA

INVEST

15 Special Report: State of the Market
The Fortune investment team offers six stocks that are poised to thrive right now-along with a glimpse of what the next market reality might look like.

PASSIONS

21 Private Aisle
How travel companies are going to great lengths to keep their high rollers happy.
By SHEILA MARIKAR

BACK PAGE

LAST BYTE

64 Luxury Real Estate Is Soaring Globally
The ranks of the ultrawealthy are growing fast, and their money is driving up high-end real estate prices.
Text by BRIAN O’KEEFE; graphic by NICOLAS RAPP

CORRECTION

The 100 Best Companies to Work For list (March 1) mistakenly said that Salesforce uses its own software to identify strong performers who haven’t had promotions. In fact, an internal recruiting team performs this function.

ON THE NEWSSTAND COVER: ILLUSTRATION BY EDDIE GUY

ON THE BRAINSTORM HEALTH CONFERENCE COVER: GRAPHIC BY NICOLAS RAPP

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Deafness

Retinitis pigmentosa

Coronary artery disease

Alzheimer’s disease

Schizophrenia

Thrombophilia

Asthma

Diabetes mellitus

Spinocerebellar ataxia

Blood group

Leukemia

Gastric cancer

Epilepsy

Obesity

Neuropathy

Breast cancer

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Prostate cancer

Lymphoma

Colon cancer

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Human disease: a network of genetic connections. (For more see page 33.)

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