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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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critics argued Google's ad design profited from accidental mobile taps; Google pointed to its invalid-click filters. The debate over who audits the metrics.

2G, coal, Commonwealth Games: India's corruption isn't a few bad apples — it's structural. How opacity got woven into how the country actually runs.