Cross Border
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Forbes Global 2000: Insurance as entrée to tech
Jessica Tan has overseen Chinese giant Ping An's parallel and sweeping rise in big data
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Mapbox: In the right direction
Developers love Mapbox's customisable, plug-and-play maps. Now the startup needs to figure out how to compete with Google in the race to steer self-driving cars
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The Emergent 25: Asia's star businesswomen
Forbes Asia's list of women making their recent mark in regional enterprises
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Miki Ito: On a mission
Space is less a final frontier these days than a final garbage dump. Japan's Miki Ito has a plan to scrub space clean of junk
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Samina Vaziralli: Cipla's guiding force
Under Vaziralli's guidance, Indian drug major Cipla gets a shot in the arm from US acquisitions
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France's big pivot
Take a centrist president with a mandate and a private sector background, mix in the country's top tech billionaire with the world's best incubator, and the potential is tantalising: Can they transform Europe's perennial economic underperformer into a tax-cutting, job-creating entrepreneurial hotbed?
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Missouri Star Quilt Co: The Disneyland of quilting
The Doan family went from bankruptcy and food stamps to starting the Missouri Star Quilt Co, a YouTube sensation that turned a tiny town into a tourist destination
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Matt O'Hayer: The egg man
Matt O'Hayer knew how to farm a better egg - he'd done it as a kid. The real trick for his company, Vital Farms, was getting consumers to pay for them and finding investors to finance him
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Venture catalysts: The women who are taking on Silicon Valley's old boys' club
Its weapons, investing and entrepreneurship, provide a blueprint for how to transform any crusty industry from the inside out
