If You Think Electric Cars Will Save the Planet, Think Again

But that won't stop them spreading like wildfire, says a new study | Continue reading


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Google’s head of HR to step down

Google's top HR exec Eileen Naughton will exit later this year amid rising tensions with the company's workers. | Continue reading


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Credit Suisse CEO Thiam ousted after power struggle with chairman

The drama represents the culmination of a conflict between the CEO and the chair that escalated after it emerged that top management hired detectives to follow former executive Iqbal Khan. | Continue reading


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Fortune 500 List

This year's Fortune 500 marks the 65th running of the list. | Continue reading


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The first coronavirus vaccine is set for testing in China

Organizations ranging from Gilead to J&J to academic institutions such as Baylor are working on vaccines for the Wuhan coronavirus. | Continue reading


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The World’s Biggest Turbines and No Subsidies (2019)

A recent auction in the U.K. shows how massive scale is transforming wind and the larger energy sector. | Continue reading


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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to Step Down

Arvind Krishna, IBM's senior vice president of cloud and cognitive software, will become its new CEO in April. | Continue reading


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Global companies enter lockdown mode as coronavirus outbreak rocks China

Corporations are responding to the spread of coronavirus by placing restrictions and outright bans on employee travel to China, indefinitely closing offices in China, and telling employees to work from home. | Continue reading


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Wawa data breach: Hacker is selling 30M credit cards on the dark web

The hack of Wawa follows the pattern of Target and other major breaches. | Continue reading


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5G is supposed to be the future. But here’s what it’s like today

We tested 5G wireless networks around the country. Here's what we found. | Continue reading


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Fertility Inc.: Inside the big business of babymaking

One in eight couples struggles to conceive. No wonder investors are injecting cash into the industry. | Continue reading


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Mysterious GPS outages are wracking the shipping industry

For the global maritime shipping industry, spotty satellite navigation is a disaster waiting to happen. | Continue reading


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A.I. breakthroughs in natural-language processing are big for business

A series of breakthroughs in a branch of A.I. called natural language processing is sparking the rapid development of revolutionary new products. | Continue reading


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Big tech’s quest for human-level A.I

Giants like Alphabet and Microsoft are investing heavily to develop technology that could radically reshape the business world. When it arrives is anyone's guess. | Continue reading


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Is This the Toughest Job in America?

David Calhoun is heir to one of the biggest messes, not only in Boeing's history, but in modern business. | Continue reading


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AMD’s Command Performace at CES 2020 Was Years in the Making

AMD CEO Lisa Su is tech's latest rock star. | Continue reading


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Visa and Mastercard Say No to Delaying Deadline for Gas Pump Chip Card Upgrades

Come October, gas station operators who haven't upgraded will be on the hook for any card fraud at their pumps. One association estimates the fuel industry will see $451 million of card fraud in 2020. | Continue reading


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Warren Buffett: Here’s How I Would Solve the Trade Problem (2016)

In 2003, the Oracle of Omaha saw the debate on free trade coming, and proposed a radical solution. | Continue reading


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Apple Sued by New York Doctor over Watch’s Heart Technology

A New York University cardiologist claims Apple’s Watch uses his patented heartbeat-monitoring invention and he wants compensation. | Continue reading


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25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s

Fortune asked 25 of the sharpest minds to weigh in on the epic, disruptive, thrilling, terrifying, and fascinating ideas that will mold the next decade. The future is now. | Continue reading


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SoftBank-Backed Startup Sought to Disrupt the Car Market

Interviews with 29 current and former employees paint a picture of what happens inside a company when you combine a charismatic founder, a mandate for hypergrowth, and a notoriously deep-pocketed backer. | Continue reading


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The Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off

The EU's top court ruled that a second-hand ebook platform is breaking copyright law, because there is no difference between new or used digital copies of media. | Continue reading


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Facial Recognition Fooled: Test of Airports, Payment Systems Raises Concerns

An experiment by Kneron shows facial recognition is less secure than many think. | Continue reading


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IBM Showcases A.I. That Can Parse Arguments in Cambridge Union Debate

Named "speech by crowd," the Debater A.I. groups and summarizes large numbers of disparate arguments made by individuals. | Continue reading


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How Steve Jobs Linked Up with IBM (1989)

A hot new computer war is on. | Continue reading


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Airbnb Changed New Orleans–and Now New Orleans Can’t Live Without It

New Orleans residents first became short-term rental hosts for additional cash, but now, as they face rising property tax bills, they depend on that income more than ever. | Continue reading


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China’s Private Equity Champion on Winning with the Chinese Consumer

Weijian Shan has earned huge returns thanks to shrewd bets on what Chinese consumers need and want. Here's what he's betting on now. | Continue reading


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Alibaba’s Hong Kong Debut Is the Biggest IPO of 2019–By Far

Alibaba beat out Uber's record May IPO of $8.1 billion, raising $12.9 billion in a secondary listing in a city beset by recession and nearly six months of political unrest. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Proved a 4-Day Workweek Improved Productivity. Can It Translate to US

The four-day workweek "becomes a prompt to try to find smarter ways to get the job done," says one expert. | Continue reading


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PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Reveals Why He Withdrew from Facebook’s Libra Project

Here’s what PayPal is working on instead. | Continue reading


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Disney+ Might Have a Notable Hacker Problem

User complaints mount and dark web sales soar. | Continue reading


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T-Mobile’s Brash CEO John Legere to Step Down in May

The most successful leader in wireless is handing off the top job top job to his top lieutenant, Mike Sievert. | Continue reading


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Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech (2014)

CEO Bob Iger has has brought the coolest innovations from Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel, and ESPN into a single galaxy. | Continue reading


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Apple’s Head of Marketing Wrongfully Dunks on Chromebooks

Kids can learn more using Chromebooks or iPads in school, despite the opinion of Apple's chief of marketing. | Continue reading


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The Deal That Made Bill Gates $350M

On the 25th anniversary of Microsoft’s IPO, Fortune is featuring our 1986 cover story in which we followed around a young Bill Gates as he prepared to take his company public. Here’s the story of the birth of a billionaire. Editor’s Note: This story was first published in the  Ju … | Continue reading


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Is OneCoin the Biggest Financial Fraud in History?

The BBC's epic global journey to find one "cryptocurrency" mastermind draws to a shocking close. | Continue reading


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Fed Chair Paul Volcker: ‘We’re in a Hell of a Mess’

"How can you run a democracy when nobody believes in the leadership of the country?” | Continue reading


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Climate Change Is Hitting the Insurance Industry Hard. How Swiss Re Is Adapting

The world's biggest reinsurer confronts the financial impact of the climate crisis. | Continue reading


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Alexa Turns 5: What Amazon’s Kindergarten-Aged Assistant Can Teach the Rest Of

Amazon Echo, and its voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, was launched five years ago. Here's what the program's success can teach tech on its birthday. | Continue reading


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50% of employees have quit a job because of their manager

A new survey sheds new light on manager-employee relationships | Continue reading


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One of the biggest merger deals in the history of the automotive industry

Shares in PSA Group tanked 12 percent on the news. Trading in FCA jumped as investors calculated PSA was in reality paying a premium. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 4 years ago

Gaia-X is Germany's attempt to break the hold of US cloud providers

It wants freedom from the reach of U.S. espionage laws. Does that mean U.S. providers—Google, Amazon and Microsoft—will be shut out? | Continue reading


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Why most companies are failing at AI

A survey by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group found that most companies report little to no impact from their A.I. projects. | Continue reading


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U.S. CTO: How America Achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’

Commentary: Google's quantum computer Sycamore, with government and academic support, has proven the "quantum supremacy" theory. | Continue reading


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Samsung Joins Google and Amazon in Backing Trapped Ion Quantum Computer Startup

Samsung joins Google and Amazon in pouring millions into "trapped ion" quantum computer startup IonQ. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 4 years ago

Spotify Saved the Music Industry, Now What?

Profits are hard to come by—and Apple and Amazon aren't going away. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 4 years ago

Chinese Hacking: The Plane Made from Stolen Tech?

Chinese hackers sought to steal jet plane technology from companies like GE to help a state-owned company compete with Boeing and Airbus. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 4 years ago

Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel

Layer1 wants to be the world's biggest Bitcoin miner by controlling everything from chip manufacturing to electricity production. | Continue reading


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