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Smartphones, MP3 players, tablets, laptops, netbooks–modern consumers never leave the house without more electronics than Robocop. We’re addicted to using and spending money on mobile devices, which might explain why automakers lately can’t stop tryi…

The iPhone manufacturer plans to move its primary plant inland, in search of cheaper labor. It’s workforce will soon hit 1.4 million. Foxconn, the world’s largest maker of computer components, revealed plans to move some 200,000 jobs inland. Currently,…

Gates- and Google-funded Sal Khan seeks to make his popular YouTube lessons universally accessible, and change the nature of education in the process.

In 2008, Sal Khan was offered a $330 million hedge fund. He turned it down to produce low-budget mat…

William The Refrigerator Perry is stubborn. He is not the innocent Fridge from the Chicago Bears’ famous 1985 season. He is not coachable. William Perry does what he wants — and that includes still drinking.

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Five reporters stumbled on what seems like a basic question: What is money? The unsettling answer they found: Money is fiction. Photo: Stone money on the island of Yap.

Courtesy American Express, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, HPDan Heath and Chip Heath on what we can learn from the world’s brand kings.Even more than the crazy wigs and high-protein clothing, it’s the name that makes Lady Gaga. If her name were Bethan…

China's Army of Graduates Is StrugglingPittsburgh Post GazetteSuch disparities — and the lure of spectacular wealth in coastal cities like Shanghai, Tianjin and Shenzhen — keep young graduates coming. …and more »

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After 500 years of Western predominance, Niall Ferguson argues, the world is tilting back to the East.