Business

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In 2014, Chicago's Pankaj and Swati Garg launched Somrus, an Indian cream liqueur of cardamom, saffron, and rose — and Wine Enthusiast gave it 94 points.

In 2013, Martine Rothblatt earned $38.2 million — America's highest-paid female CEO. The transgender Sirius founder built biotech to save her daughter.