Global Economy

In May 2011, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky published the most penetrating portrait yet of Jobs-era Apple — startup culture at the largest scale in business.

Price too low and you leave money on the table; price too high and the stock sinks. A plain-language look at how IPOs are priced and why the number matters.

In 2011, even Procter & Gamble admitted its middle-class shoppers were trading down — an early sign of the hollowing out that would define the decade's economy.

In 2011, World Bank economist Justin Lin forecast China would be twice the US economy by 2030. The forecast's hit-and-miss record is instructive.

Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone on September 6, 2011 — the latest turn in the former web giant's long struggle against Google and Facebook.

In the World Economic Forum's 2011-2012 competitiveness ranking, the U.S. slipped to 5th place behind Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, and Finland.

From Indra Nooyi to Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai — how Indian-origin executives came to lead the world's biggest corporations.

Google's Vic Gundotra shared the famous 'Icon Ambulance' story after Steve Jobs's 2011 resignation — a Sunday call about a yellow gradient, and a lesson in

Groupon's China arm Gaopeng imploded months after launch — mass layoffs, a viral employee revolt, and 5,000 local clones. What the China debacle revealed.

Baltimore made headlines in 2011 with three-bedroom homes listed at $5,000. The catch: foreclosures, repair bills, and neighborhoods in freefall.

A 17-year-old in Anhui sold a kidney for 22,000 yuan to buy an iPad 2. The story that exposed a gadget frenzy — and a black market.

As Germany's E. coli outbreak grew, so did the politics: Putin's vegetable ban, Spain's fury at false blame, and Merkel's crisis task force.

Gaurav Sahai left HP in America for seven acres in Mohali. Raja Adhikary left trading for tea in Jalpaiguri. Meet farming's new entrepreneurs.

In May 2011 a killer E. coli strain swept northern Germany. Cucumbers took the blame — but the real culprit was fenugreek sprouts.

Shadow inventory, the robo-signing scandal, and the foreclosure overhang kept pressing on U.S. home prices through the crisis years.

Roubini’s 2011 “China’s Bad Growth Bet” warned of overinvestment at 50% of GDP and a hard landing after 2013. The thesis, the evidence, and what actually

In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.

After a 2011 New York Times expose on its paid-link scheme, Google manually penalized JCPenney -- proof no advertiser was above its search rules.

Stephen Elop's leaked 'burning platform' memo of February 2011: the most brutally honest corporate memo ever, and the prelude to Nokia's Microsoft deal.

In February 2011, Tehelka published the Liechtenstein list the government had kept sealed for two years: 15 names in the LGT black-money accounts.