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◆Sidelines | Disguised Blessing
Tim W. Ferguson
Good news on the oil front.
Build It, They're Coming
Suzanne Nam
The wealthy have discovered his island-state, and Simon Cheong has just the properties to suit.
Global By Design
Samantha Marshall
Vietnam can't boast many companies that compete overseas. Nguyen Quoc Khanh started one 20 years ago, and he now wins contracts from New York to Kiev.
A Billion Feet
Joyce Huang
Eddie Chen stepped up in the Taiwan family behind Daphne, which he's made the basic women's shoe source in China.
A Look Under The Hood
Joann Muller
Li Shufu's Geely University is the lifeblood for his rising Chinese car company, Geely Automobile.
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◆Companies, People, Ideas
ARM-Twisting Deal
Ed Sperling
Why Microsoft is taking its collaboration with an Intel rival very seriously.
93 And Counting
Michael Fumento
In their Toyota coverage reporters aren't letting facts get in the way of a good story.
India's Banga Brothers
Naazneen Karmali
Ajay, the younger, takes charge at MasterCard, but the business world may not have heard the last of Vindi.
Boys' Nation
Gady Epstein
An odd theory for China's trade surplus.
Blowout Beneficiary
Christopher Helman
BP's spill is scaring oil and gas majors out of the deep water. That's good news for shale gas pioneer Range Resources.
Dance Floor Diplomats
Megha Bahree
Desi Hits keeps the beats bouncing between Bollywood and Hollywood.
Trust No One
Christopher Buckley
With ''friends'' here in Washington, D.C., who needs spies next door?
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◆Entrepreneurs
Animal Magnetism
Lucinda Schmidt
Australia's wealthy Jan Cameron is back in the retail game with a discounter she bought last year. The profits will go to her other passion: animal welfare.
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◆Technology
Linear Technologies' Big Deal Aversion
Brian Caulfield
Linear Technology has never done a big deal--and has no regrets.
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◆Notable Chinese-Americans
Marvell Technology's Mobile Connector
Russell Flannery
Marvell's Weili Dai takes her place on our list of entrepreneurs, innovators and businesspeople who left home and made their mark in the U.S.
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◆Columnists
Backseat Driver | Where's the Sizzle in Selling Cars?
Jerry Flint
The only excitement in car selling surrounds electrics. But they have wet blankets covering them--like cost, range and refueling time.
Digital Tools | Computers: Will They Ever Learn?
Lee Gomes
Sometimes Google Translate is spot-on perfect. Very often, though, the system has all the fluency of a barely competent human translator.
Financial Strategy | The Liquidation Isn't Over
A. Gary Shilling
There are 2.1 million unsold U.S. houses. Excess inventory is the enemy of house prices, which may fall another 20%.
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◆Issues & Ideas
Keynes Who?
Daniel Fisher
Stimulus fans like Paul Krugman say government spending will turn the U.S. economy around. Too bad the data refuse to cooperate, counters Harvard's Robert Barro.
Un-Freakonomics
Susan Adams
A Harvard professor uses economics to save lives, assign doctors and get kids into the right high school.
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◆SportsMoney
SportsMoney 50-50
Michael K. Ozanian and Kurt Badenhausen
The world's most valuable teams and athletes.