Business

Folorunsho Alakija, worth $2.6 billion in 2014, told University of Lagos students she never attended one. The fashion-to-oil story behind it.

An intern invited his CEO to lunch — and walked away with career advice worth more than the sandwich: take risks early, stay employable, and choose your

Good bosses hit targets. Unforgettable ones are remembered for how they treated people — eight traits that separate the memorable from the merely competent.

In 2014, the app FIXED launched in San Francisco, contesting parking tickets for users — you paid 25% of the fine only if it won.

Flushable wipes don't break down and are clogging sewers across the US — costing cities millions. Keep wipes out of pipes.

A 2013 CNNMoney report revealed startups like Lenddo and Kreditech were weighing your Facebook friends when deciding whether you get a loan.

In August 2013, Walmart launched its holiday layaway — free with no opening fee — four months before Christmas. The holiday creep had officially begun.

In 2013, Virgin Atlantic's Little Red tried to make domestic flights fun with secret live comedy gigs and acoustic sets — before shutting down in 2015.

Indians made up 5% of foreign homebuyers in the US in the year ending March 2013, with a median purchase price of $300,000 — second only to China.

That zip code the cashier asks for isn't needed for your card to go through. It's marketing data — and you have every right to say no.

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 2013, Samoa Air became the first airline to price tickets by passenger weight: 'a kilo is a kilo is a kilo.' How the controversial policy worked.

Best Buy ended its celebrated Results Only Work Environment program, ordering corporate staff back to the office — the second big anti-telecommuting move

Zara founder Amancio Ortega was named the world's third-richest person in 2013 at $57 billion — yet the famously private billionaire rarely gives interviews.

The third wave of UK beef testing found horse DNA in Taco Bell ground beef, Birds Eye lasagne, and Brakes skewers — but 99% of products tested clean.

Titan CEO Maurice Taylor fired off a second blistering letter to France's industry minister, praising its women and wine while savaging its work ethic.

In 2013, Google weighed a radical anti-piracy move: starving pirate sites of their ad and payment revenue instead of just tweaking search results.

Why do brilliant programmers give away their best work for free? A 2013 Hindu op-ed by IIM Bangalore's Rahul De' found the answer in the poetry of Mirza Ghalib.

Stuck in the H1B green-card backlog? The EB-5 investor visa offered permanent residence for a $500,000 investment creating ten American jobs.