Business

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned of 'horrible problems' as computing moves to the cloud: 'With the cloud, you don't own anything.

August 5, 2012 · 3 min read

After the July 18, 2012 Manesar violence that killed HR manager Awanish Kumar, Maruti Suzuki reportedly sought vaastu expert Daivajna K N Somayaji's advice.

July 31, 2012 · 2 min read

Grids supplying half of India collapsed on July 31, 2012 — the world's biggest blackout — even as Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde was promoted to Home

July 31, 2012 · 4 min read

Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister Arielle became a Google employee in July 2012 when Google bought her employer, social marketing startup Wildfire.

July 31, 2012 · 1 min read

Google added a full 34-button scientific calculator to its search results in July 2012, with voice input on desktop and a mobile-friendly layout.

July 26, 2012 · 1 min read

How McDonald's turned its McCafé coffee line into a serious Starbucks rival — and won a Consumer Reports blind taste test on the way.

July 24, 2012 · 1 min read

A German court extended Apple's EU-wide ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 but let the redesigned Tab 10.1N stand, days before the US patent trial began.

July 24, 2012 · 2 min read

Nouriel Roubini argued in July 2012 that the US recovery was a 'fairy tale', giving five reasons growth would slow to stall speed — and drag the world down

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Karnataka ended the IT industry's decade-long exemption from the 1946 Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act — and Bangalore's software companies saw

July 23, 2012 · 2 min read

Okanagan Specialty Fruits' genetically engineered non-browning Arctic Apple promised fresher sliced apples — and set much of the apple industry against it.

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 analysis of OMB data found federal spending grew slowest under Obama since Eisenhower — but the finding turned on which president 'owned' the 2009

July 16, 2012 · 1 min read

A Dutch brain-imaging study found that seeing a celebrity endorse shoes lights up the medial orbitofrontal cortex — the persuasiveness of fame itself, not

July 13, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, Michigan couple Usha and Deepak Shah, both 63, were charged by US federal authorities with filing over $8.8M in allegedly false Medicare bills.

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, reports said Facebook would launch a job-postings board aggregating listings from BranchOut, Jobvite, and Work4 Labs — a light step into

July 8, 2012 · 1 min read

Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign promised to run government like a business. What would McKinsey-style management consulting actually mean for the federal

July 6, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, Vanity Fair detailed Mitt Romney's offshore holdings — Swiss and Cayman accounts — and the $100-million question of his enormous IRA.

July 5, 2012 · 2 min read

A response to Ramachandra Guha's 2012 thesis: India's democracy and capitalism were shaped — and constrained — by two families, the Gandhis and the Ambanis.

July 4, 2012 · 2 min read

Apple paid $60 million in July 2012 to settle with Shenzhen Proview over the iPad trademark in China, clearing the way to sell the tablet in a key market.

July 4, 2012 · 2 min read

The Aakash, India's $35-40 tablet from DataWind and the government, promised to bridge the digital divide for students — but the shipped device fell far short.

June 28, 2012 · 1 min read

The death of a Cognizant employee in a US hotel room spotlighted the isolation and duty-of-care questions facing Indian IT workers on long overseas assignments.

June 27, 2012 · 1 min read