Business

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

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 Frost & Sullivan report predicted reverse brain drain as a top global mega trend: CXO vacancies in India filled by returning Indians — and by

April 13, 2011 · 1 min read

Dilbert creator Scott Adams argued in 2011 that schools should teach business skills instead of calculus and art history.

April 10, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011 LinkedIn tried to do for professional identity what Facebook’s Like button did for the social graph. Why the strategy made sense — and why it never

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

A Bangalore call-center firm could hire only 3 of every 100 graduates in 2011, exposing India's employability gap and the failures of its education system.

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read

April 4, 2011: Parliament’s PAC questioned Ratan Tata and Niira Radia on the 2G spectrum case — Joshi called Tata candid and Radia evasive.

April 4, 2011 · 2 min read

In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.

March 14, 2011 · 1 min read

Rajat Gupta went from McKinsey's first non-American chief to convicted insider trader. The fall, the Rajaratnam tapes, and what it said about finance.

March 8, 2011 · 1 min read

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

February 13, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

February 9, 2011 · 1 min read

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

February 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, China was pushing yuan trade settlement and 'dim sum' bonds. Would the renminbi displace the dollar? Fifteen years on, the answer is instructive.

January 12, 2011 · 1 min read

On January 11, 2011, Verizon announced the CDMA iPhone 4 at New York's Lincoln Center — ending AT&T's exclusive hold on the iPhone.

January 11, 2011 · 1 min read

A darkly comic 2010 meme linked Goldman Sachs, the Nigerian scam, and Facebook quizzes. Its point was serious: information asymmetry all the way down.

January 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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

January 7, 2011 · 1 min read

US airlines collected $2.1B in fees in Q3 2010 alone. A January 2011 report asked what they might charge for next: infants, check-in staff, credit cards.

January 6, 2011 · 2 min read

At 14, Suhas Gopinath founded Globals Inc from a Bangalore cyber cafe. A decade on: a multinational IT firm, a World Bank roundtable, and a WEF honor.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read

In December 2010, Anonymous's Operation Payback took down the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after they cut off WikiLeaks — a landmark moment in

December 8, 2010 · 1 min read

A story did the rounds in 2010: a Mumbai chemist shop paying Rs 42 lakh a month in rent. On why the anecdote's plausibility was the real story.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read