Companies, trade, the Indian economy and household finances, with a focus on what business news means for Indian and Indian American families.
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In May 2012 Facebook tested paid 'promoted posts' in New Zealand — charging page owners to reach their own followers. It was a preview of the end of free
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Facebook's $16 billion IPO debuted in May 2012 to Nasdaq glitches and a flat close at $38.23 — and the Drudge Report's verdict was brutal: 'IPO gives no
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In May 2012 Chipotle disclosed an SEC subpoena probing its hiring practices, employee work-authorization compliance, and the public statements it had made.
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Ethical men earn 3.4% less, a 2012 study found — but ethical women pay no penalty. What Andrew Hussey's MBA research says about character and wages.
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Scott Thompson's four-month Yahoo tenure ended in May 2012 over a fabricated degree — and set up the succession battle that brought in Marissa Mayer.
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Raise taxes and the rich will flee? The evidence on millionaire tax migration says the exodus is mostly myth — here is what the research actually found.
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Bill Gates rendered in panels and speech bubbles — an Indian publisher's illustrated biography made the billionaire's story accessible to young readers.
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In April 2012, Korean IT News reported Apple's iPhone 5 might use Liquidmetal alloy — the rumor fizzled; the iPhone 5 shipped in aluminum that September.
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In 2012 China tightened visa enforcement for foreigners — and Americans in Beijing found renewals, paperwork, and work rules suddenly much harder.
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Americans abroad renounced citizenship in record numbers in the early 2010s — FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, and compliance costs drove the trend.
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Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned after an investigation found an inappropriate relationship with a female employee — and chairman Richard Schulze knew.
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Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.
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The Two and a Half Men star was cast as Steve Jobs in the indie biopic Jobs, announced in April 2012 — a year before it premiered at Sundance.
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Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.
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By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.
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At a New York panel on young brains and video games, experts weighed the iPad's place in childhood: a powerful shelf of toys — or an electronic babysitter?
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Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.
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The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.
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India was working toward the Washington Accord, which would give its engineering graduates international credential recognition. Two years later, it happened.
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Photos of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife from a Zimbabwe hunt ignited a 2012 backlash — and a trophy-hunting debate that
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