Business

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.

June 25, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

June 18, 2012 · 1 min read

In Herat, Afghanistan, farmers swapped opium poppies for saffron — the world's priciest spice — at the cost of Taliban threats and kidnappings.

June 18, 2012 · 2 min read

From McKinsey chief to convicted insider trader: how Rajat Gupta's tips to Raj Rajaratnam ended an exemplary career — and a two-year prison sentence.

June 15, 2012 · 1 min read

North Dakota's 2012 Measure 2 would have abolished all property taxes — voters rejected it 76% to 24%, but the sentiment behind it refuses to die.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

How one Oregon woman's absurd $2.1 million fake state tax return sailed through the review process — and what it exposed about refund fraud.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 Kaspersky exposed Flame — a massive cyberespionage toolkit aimed at Iran, with 86 fake-identity domains and all the hallmarks of a state operation.

June 4, 2012 · 1 min read

While America fought over Obamacare in 2012, Indian hospitals were delivering world-class surgery at a fraction of US prices.

June 4, 2012 · 1 min read

The '1%' was really a 0.1% problem: the elite whose wealth buys the rules themselves. On inequality, Occupy, and why the policy answers differ.

June 2, 2012 · 1 min read

After the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the 4.5% minority sub-quota within OBC reservation in May 2012, the IITs decided to ignore it for JEE

May 31, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2011 the Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge — a toilet for the 2.5 billion without safe sanitation, no sewer or power needed,

May 31, 2012 · 1 min read

Thomas Langenbach had a $2 million home and a prestigious SAP job — and, police said, a second career stealing Lego sets to resell on eBay.

May 28, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination — with harassment allegations against partner Ajit Nazre at its center.

May 28, 2012 · 1 min read

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi once played serious cricket for an all-girls team in Chennai. Her career cost her the sport — and she has named what achievement took.

May 25, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 study exposed extreme vanity sizing — Armani's '33-inch' jeans measured far larger. Why the clothing industry lies to you about your waist.

May 24, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 IBM banned Siri on company devices — voice data went to Apple's servers, and nobody could audit it. The caution turned out to be prescient.

May 23, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 Gina Rinehart became the world's richest woman on iron ore wealth — polarizing Australia with her wages politics, media stakes, and a bitter family

May 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Mark Zuckerberg cashed out 30.2 million Facebook shares in the May 2012 IPO — about $1.15 billion, most of it earmarked for the tax bill on his stock options.

May 22, 2012 · 1 min read

After a flat debut, Facebook's stock fell 11% on its second day of trading in May 2012 — and Wall Street's verdict on the bungled IPO was blunt.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

After years of speculation, Nita Ambani gave Vanity Fair its first look inside Antilia in 2012 — and settled the rumors about whether the family had ever

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read