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In 2015, Colorado baker Jack Phillips fought a discrimination ruling over refusing a same-sex wedding cake. The dispute would reach the US Supreme Court in

In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg visited India to address the Internet.org summit and meet PM Modi — his bid to connect the world's 5 billion offline.

Mukesh Ambani topped Forbes' India rich list for the eighth straight year in 2014 at $23.6B — the year all 100 on the list became billionaires.

iGATE fired CEO Phaneesh Murthy in May 2013 after a board probe into an undisclosed relationship with a subordinate — eleven years after his Infosys

Uninor trained auto drivers, milkmen and newspaper vendors to sell SIM cards door-to-door in Maharashtra — an industry-first sales experiment.

In November 2012, France's industry minister said ArcelorMittal was no longer welcome in the country, escalating the fight over the Florange steel plant.

At a 2012 FLO event, Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw argued educated women should compete on merit, not seek special privileges. It still divides opinion.

In 2012, Walmart opened at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Target at 9. The Black Friday creep had officially swallowed the holiday itself.

California's legislature passed SB 1298 in August 2012, legalizing Google's driverless-car tests on public roads — the first step toward autonomy.

Deep Foods started in 1977 with Bhagwati Amin's Gujarati snacks in New Jersey. It became one of America's largest Indian food brands.

Suzuki's chairman donned a turban in New Delhi and talked history — Sanjay Gandhi, Maruti, and the Indian judge Japan still reveres.

After winning a $1.05B verdict, Apple gave a judge a list of eight Samsung phones it wanted banned from the U.S. - including several Galaxy S2 models.

In August 2012, Apple stock hit $665.15 and its market cap reached $624 billion - the most valuable company in Wall Street history.

Google announced 4,000 job cuts at Motorola Mobility in August 2012 — about 20% of the unit — just months after completing its $12.5 billion acquisition.

Kodak's bankruptcy, RIM's collapse, J.C. Penney's tailspin — a look at once-great American companies in 2012 that may never come back.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned of 'horrible problems' as computing moves to the cloud: 'With the cloud, you don't own anything.

Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister Arielle became a Google employee in July 2012 when Google bought her employer, social marketing startup Wildfire.

Google added a full 34-button scientific calculator to its search results in July 2012, with voice input on desktop and a mobile-friendly layout.

How McDonald's turned its McCafé coffee line into a serious Starbucks rival — and won a Consumer Reports blind taste test on the way.

A German court extended Apple's EU-wide ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 but let the redesigned Tab 10.1N stand, days before the US patent trial began.

Nouriel Roubini argued in July 2012 that the US recovery was a 'fairy tale', giving five reasons growth would slow to stall speed — and drag the world down

Karnataka ended the IT industry's decade-long exemption from the 1946 Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act — and Bangalore's software companies saw

Okanagan Specialty Fruits' genetically engineered non-browning Arctic Apple promised fresher sliced apples — and set much of the apple industry against it.

In July 2012, reports said Facebook would launch a job-postings board aggregating listings from BranchOut, Jobvite, and Work4 Labs — a light step into

Apple paid $60 million in July 2012 to settle with Shenzhen Proview over the iPad trademark in China, clearing the way to sell the tablet in a key market.

The death of a Cognizant employee in a US hotel room spotlighted the isolation and duty-of-care questions facing Indian IT workers on long overseas assignments.

From McKinsey chief to convicted insider trader: how Rajat Gupta's tips to Raj Rajaratnam ended an exemplary career — and a two-year prison sentence.

The '1%' was really a 0.1% problem: the elite whose wealth buys the rules themselves. On inequality, Occupy, and why the policy answers differ.

After the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the 4.5% minority sub-quota within OBC reservation in May 2012, the IITs decided to ignore it for JEE

In 2011 the Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge — a toilet for the 2.5 billion without safe sanitation, no sewer or power needed,

Thomas Langenbach had a $2 million home and a prestigious SAP job — and, police said, a second career stealing Lego sets to resell on eBay.

In May 2012 Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination — with harassment allegations against partner Ajit Nazre at its center.

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi once played serious cricket for an all-girls team in Chennai. Her career cost her the sport — and she has named what achievement took.

A 2012 study exposed extreme vanity sizing — Armani's '33-inch' jeans measured far larger. Why the clothing industry lies to you about your waist.

In May 2012 IBM banned Siri on company devices — voice data went to Apple's servers, and nobody could audit it. The caution turned out to be prescient.

In 2012 Gina Rinehart became the world's richest woman on iron ore wealth — polarizing Australia with her wages politics, media stakes, and a bitter family

Mark Zuckerberg cashed out 30.2 million Facebook shares in the May 2012 IPO — about $1.15 billion, most of it earmarked for the tax bill on his stock options.

After years of speculation, Nita Ambani gave Vanity Fair its first look inside Antilia in 2012 — and settled the rumors about whether the family had ever

In May 2012 Facebook tested paid 'promoted posts' in New Zealand — charging page owners to reach their own followers. It was a preview of the end of free

In May 2012 Chipotle disclosed an SEC subpoena probing its hiring practices, employee work-authorization compliance, and the public statements it had made.

Ethical men earn 3.4% less, a 2012 study found — but ethical women pay no penalty. What Andrew Hussey's MBA research says about character and wages.

Scott Thompson's four-month Yahoo tenure ended in May 2012 over a fabricated degree — and set up the succession battle that brought in Marissa Mayer.

Raise taxes and the rich will flee? The evidence on millionaire tax migration says the exodus is mostly myth — here is what the research actually found.

Bill Gates rendered in panels and speech bubbles — an Indian publisher's illustrated biography made the billionaire's story accessible to young readers.

Americans abroad renounced citizenship in record numbers in the early 2010s — FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, and compliance costs drove the trend.

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned after an investigation found an inappropriate relationship with a female employee — and chairman Richard Schulze knew.

By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.

Prem Ganapathy reached Mumbai in 1990 with Rs 200 and was robbed on arrival. By 1992 he was selling dosas from a handcart near Vashi station; that cart

Forbes called reclusive 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava the wealthiest Indian in America in 2012 — worth $1.5 billion, though almost nobody knew his name.

In 2011, PepsiCo's underperforming stock put Indra Nooyi's job under scrutiny. She survived — and her 'Performance with Purpose' bet was vindicated.

Mukesh Ambani's 27-storey Antilia was called the world's most expensive home — and sat empty amid reports its owners feared bad luck. Inside the 2011 story.

They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.

October 15, 2011: Occupy goes global with London's 'Occupy the Stock Exchange' rally — Julian Assange and Peter Tatchell addressed the crowd at St Paul's.

Manmohan Singh skips the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Perth — and the reason is Australia's refusal to sell uranium to non-NPT India.

An Iowa store owner ran a $10 contest for guessing which cashier would be fired next — and an unemployment judge called it 'egregious and deplorable.'

Published the day after Steve Jobs's death: the story of his adoption, his childhood in Mountain View, and the turbulent boyhood that shaped Apple's co-founder.

In May 2011, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky published the most penetrating portrait yet of Jobs-era Apple — startup culture at the largest scale in business.

Price too low and you leave money on the table; price too high and the stock sinks. A plain-language look at how IPOs are priced and why the number matters.

Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone on September 6, 2011 — the latest turn in the former web giant's long struggle against Google and Facebook.

From Indra Nooyi to Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai — how Indian-origin executives came to lead the world's biggest corporations.

Google's Vic Gundotra shared the famous 'Icon Ambulance' story after Steve Jobs's 2011 resignation — a Sunday call about a yellow gradient, and a lesson in

Groupon's China arm Gaopeng imploded months after launch — mass layoffs, a viral employee revolt, and 5,000 local clones. What the China debacle revealed.

The 2011 phone-hacking scandal sank the News of the World and scarred Rupert Murdoch's empire — but the concentration of media power it exposed went nowhere.

A 17-year-old in Anhui sold a kidney for 22,000 yuan to buy an iPad 2. The story that exposed a gadget frenzy — and a black market.

Roubini’s 2011 “China’s Bad Growth Bet” warned of overinvestment at 50% of GDP and a hard landing after 2013. The thesis, the evidence, and what actually

Hackers breached email-marketing giant Epsilon in April 2011, stealing data for 2,500+ clients — triggering breach notices from Chase, Citigroup and more.

After a 2011 New York Times expose on its paid-link scheme, Google manually penalized JCPenney -- proof no advertiser was above its search rules.

Stephen Elop's leaked 'burning platform' memo of February 2011: the most brutally honest corporate memo ever, and the prelude to Nokia's Microsoft deal.

In February 2011, Tehelka published the Liechtenstein list the government had kept sealed for two years: 15 names in the LGT black-money accounts.

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

Admired and reviled in equal measure: Goldman Sachs after the 2008 crisis, from TARP repayment to the $550 million Abacus fraud settlement.

Google is giving away its unbranded Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook to pilot testers. On the free laptop, the browser-only bet, and how to apply.

As the eurozone debt crisis deepened in November 2010, Germans were buying gold and silver at a remarkable pace. On the history behind the flight to safety.

In November 2010, Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin agreed that China-Russia trade would be settled in yuan and roubles instead of dollars.

CEO advice clusters around platitudes — hire well, focus, embrace failure. What survives is the specific and behavioral, like Indra Nooyi's letters to

Indra Nooyi, Vikram Pandit, Sanjay Jha, Shantanu Narayen — by 2010 Indian-Americans led some of America's biggest companies.

Project Titan revealed: Facebook Messages — unified inbox, no subject lines, @facebook.com addresses. Zuckerberg said it was 'not an email killer.'

Chinese acquisitions of Western firms make geopolitical headlines — but inside the acquired company, the experience is cultural and human before anything else.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.

At the 2010 Seoul G20, leaders chanted 'global rebalancing' — less reliance on American shoppers, more on China's. Luxury carmakers had already moved.