A primer on the Metaverse that raises many questions
Everybody in the world of technology talks about the Metaverse. But no two people among them seem...
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Category: Business
How India’s Tata family built modern India
With a population of 1.38 billion and the fifth largest economy in the world, India is a giant...
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A group biography of the PayPal mafia
As tech companies go, PayPal is a piker compared to the bold-faced names of the industry. Apple,...
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The men behind the world’s widening economic inequality
In the prologue to his new book, Peter S. Goodman explains that “the term Davos Man was...
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Greed, jealousy, and betrayal at the heart of Wall Street’s collapse
Following Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail and arriving on bookshelves the same month as...
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The truth about ExxonMobil (it ain’t pretty)
Until recently, when Amazon emerged as such a deserving target of opprobrium, ExxonMobil was,...
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Deconstructing the Jeff Bezos story
How does a company get to be as big as Amazon in just twenty-seven years? And how does a man...
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Why business won’t save the world
Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World should be required reading for every foundation...
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An investigative journalist tackles the American supermarket
If you sometimes wonder, as I do, what good civilization has done for us, consider food. For most...
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In Chocolate Wars, what’s gone wrong with business
One of the best ways I’ve found to explore the factors that influence the grand sweep of...
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This thrilling account of the early auto industry sets the record straight on Henry Ford
At first, before Henry Ford, before the twentieth century, the automobile was not a sure thing. In...
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The Trumps and the Kushners: the backstory
His father was arrested for failure to disperse from a Ku Klux Klan rally. He was also...
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5 best books about Silicon Valley
It’s difficult not to be alive and aware anywhere in the world today without recognizing the...
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Women programmers, blue-collar coders, and the world they’re building
The first computer programmer was a woman. Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, wrote code...
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An artificial intelligence skeptic paints a chilling picture of a future dominated by AI
If you’re looking for an expert to confirm your fears about killer robots, the grey goo...
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