Business

India is spending $10 billion to build chip fabs and break Taiwan's grip on semiconductors. The ambition is real; the power grids, supply chains, and

March 9, 2026 · 4 min read

India's industrial map centered on Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore. The Chennai-Kochi corridor is emerging as South India's counterweight — ports, labor, arithmetic.

March 9, 2026 · 3 min read

BRICS expanded to challenge Western financial dominance — but without shared interests it became a forum for grievances. India: architect turned balancer.

March 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Ayurveda is going global — ashwagandha in every supplement aisle. What's genuinely evidence-backed, what's marketing, and what respectful integration looks

March 9, 2026 · 4 min read

Starbucks rolled out 'Starbucks Evenings' to 70 locations — wine and tapas after 4 PM. The early verdict from a New York Post tasting: not impressed.

August 21, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015, New York City's consumer agency found Whole Foods stores routinely overstated package weights — overcharging from $0.80 for pecan panko to $14.84

June 24, 2015 · 1 min read

A 2015 video showed a Volvo XC60 plowing into onlookers — not self-parking, just a dealer driver testing the car's braking system on real people.

May 27, 2015 · 1 min read

A popular Quora thread asked what Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others did between ages 10 and 22. The answers share a striking pattern.

May 13, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh offered severance to anyone who didn't want Holacracy's boss-less system. 210 employees — 14% of the company — took it.

May 11, 2015 · 2 min read

Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville mom and UX designer, turned her five-year-old's endless questions into Brave Champs, an educational board game.

May 11, 2015 · 2 min read

WotNow — a social local calendar app built by Naperville residents Deepa Salem, Anand Sivaraman, and Vidhya Iyer — launched in 2015.

May 4, 2015 · 2 min read

Lauren Singer's Trash is for Tossers: the young woman who made no trash in two years — no new clothes or packaged goods, even making her own cleaning supplies.

November 24, 2014 · 1 min read

A burger costs less than a salad — not by accident. The economics that make ultra-processed calories the cheapest calories, and what they really cost.

November 16, 2014 · 2 min read

Vicky Torres and Juanita Salas pitched tents outside the Beaumont, California Best Buy three weeks before Thanksgiving 2014 — all to land a Black Friday TV

November 12, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, Kansas mom Amie Logan petitioned Toys 'R' Us to drop the Kardashian Kids clothing line — after the retailer pulled Breaking Bad toys.

November 4, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.

October 14, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, a Los Angeles Craigslist ad openly offered PayPal cash for posting fake 5-star Yelp reviews. TI's original piece, from the archives.

October 2, 2014 · 1 min read

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.

October 1, 2014 · 1 min read

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.

September 25, 2014 · 1 min read

In September 2014, Facebook tested scheduled post deletion on iOS — borrowing Snapchat's core idea. TI's 2014 take on ephemeral social media, from the archives.

September 13, 2014 · 1 min read