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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.