List of Business articles
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Disruption Final Flat 03 The “C” Word
Forget disruption—convergence is what really has corporations fearing for their lives.
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European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager speaks on April 15, 2015 in Brussels as the EU formally charged Google with abusing its dominant position as Europe's top search engine, laying the US Internet giant open to a massive fine of more than $6.0 billion. The European Commission also said it would open a separate anti-trust investigation into Google's Android operating system, which dominates the global mobile phone market.AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images) Europe’s Misguided Anti-Google Crusade
The EU’s campaign against the Internet giant is missing the point: Google isn’t doing anything that hurts consumers.
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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MARCH 13: A young African boy at work in the fields, watering maize crops just outside Bangui pictured on March 13, 2014 near Bangui, Central African Republic. (Photo by Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** The Untouchables
Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.
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GettyImages-470473253crop Will Google And Facebook Copy WhatsApp’s Encryption Tech?
End-to-end encryption poses a huge threat to the business model of Internet giants.
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FP 2_SW_V1 These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries
Going stateless to maximize profits, multinational companies are vying with governments for global power. Who is winning?
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ISRTHC The Promised Land of Pot
Israeli entrepreneurs are hawking everything from cannabis-infused olive oil to vaporizers -- and hoping to get a slice of the lucrative U.S. marijuana market.
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9339590204_3a3d83a8de_playboycrop Playboy Is Ditching the Sex and Betting on China
But the once-hot brand has moved decidedly down-market. Can Hugh Hefner save his struggling company by selling sweatsuits to Chinese grandmothers?
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A man calling himself Henry Hemp inhales marijuana using a vaporizer pen at HempCon medical marijuana show, May 24, 2013 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts gathered for the three-day event for exhibits of medical marijuana dispensaries, collectives, evaluation services, legal services and equipment and accessories. Under California state law, people suffering from chronic diseases have the right to grow, buy and use marijuana for medical purposes when recommended by a doctor. In 2003 the Medical Marijuana Protection Act, established an identification card system for medical marijuana patients. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) Cashing in on Legal Cannabusiness
The U.S. legal marijuana market is blazing.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers The Power of the Purse
2015 Global Thinkers Shannon Schuyler and Amy-Willard Cross discuss the importance of supporting women in business — and penalizing those who won’t.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 28: A business man gets out of a town car on September 28, 2010 in New York City. A new report released by the U.S. Census Data shows that the income gap between Americans is greater than at any other time on record. The report found that the top-earning 20% of Americans received 49.4% of the country's total income. Conversely, those living below the poverty line earned 3.4% of the national income. This is the highest disparity of wealth among all Western industrialized nations. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) When the 0.00001 Percent Sneeze
The world’s tycoons are in turmoil. The schadenfreude may be strong with this one-- but when the rich get poorer, everyone should worry.
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Indian people living in the US gather in support outside the White House, where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2014. Modi launched his Washington visit late on Monday at a private dinner hosted by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the ornate Blue Room of the White House. He came to Washington after wowing members of the Indian diaspora in New York and making his debut at the United Nations General Assembly, following his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) landslide election win in May. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOV (Photo credit should read MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images) Can Modi Harness India’s High-Tech Diaspora?
India’s popular prime minister is on a grand whistle-stop tour of Silicon Valley. But getting the Indian diaspora to help out back home is about opportunity, not emotion.
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Lunch at Kyiv Police Academy Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) walks next to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (C) and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the 6th BRICS Summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, on July 15, 2014. - Leaders of the BRICS group of emerging powers huddled Tuesday in Brazil to launch a new development bank and a reserve fund seen as counterweights to Western-led financial institutions. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) What Future For Emerging Markets?
Yes, they have been walloped, but don’t discount how crucial they are when it comes to trade, climate change, peace and everything in between.
