Cross Border
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A Company that helps grow gardens (and Cannabis)
Scotts Miracle-Gro has been helping suburban gardeners keep their lawns green and pristine for decades. Now its unconventional, controversial CEO, Jim Hagedorn, with support from his billion-dollar family, is gambling $400 million to reach a burgeoning market of customers: Pot growers
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Arts-supplies store Michaels gets a new frame of mind
Michaels, the venerable arts-supplies store, has crafted one of retail's most unlikely comebacks by transforming its stores and—gasp!—ignoring ecommerce
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Bigbang theory: How K-Pop's top act earned $44 million in a year
Bigbang, the first Korean act to land on our Celeb 100, pulled in $44 million this year, offering a window into the campy K-Pop genre—and a blueprint for making money on music anywhere in the world
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The company that has emerged as the biggest smart home player
The house of the future is being sold in the most old-fashioned way imaginable: By pounding the pavement and working the phones. So why are some of Silicon Valley's sharpest investors suddenly interested?
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Meet the new moguls of gaming
Thanks to cellphones and the app store, there's a new way to monetise fame. Meet the new moguls of gaming: Kim Kardashian, Ellen DeGeneres and dozens of other bold-faced names have quickly created a $200 million cottage industry around mobile games
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Technology giants wage a trillion-dollar war for the Cloud
As the data-intensive Internet of Things becomes a reality, the cloud is shaping up to be the biggest business opportunity in a generation, and Amazon, Microsoft and Google all want to claim the biggest slice
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Ex-lovers in a war of words over translation firm
Liz Elting founded one of America's leading translation companies with her boyfriend from business school. But nearly 20 years after calling off their engagement, the ex-lovers are waging an ugly battle for control that's landed them in corporate divorce court and may cost them what could be a billion-dollar baby
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Skype meets cash with TransferWise
The latest salvo in the war for the future of money: Person-to-person currency transfers. Silicon Valley's heavyweights are betting that a $1 billion startup called TransferWise can pull off the trick right now
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Peter Thiel vs Gawker: A billionaire's blueprint for killing an enemy
Peter Thiel's war on the gossip website Gawker goes back longer than previously realised. Here's the untold story of his siege
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HYT's hydromechanical watches: The new liquid asset
Three years ago, HYT introduced innovative hydromechanical watches that were prized by collectors and disrupted the industry. Then a $23 million investment came flooding in
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Stitch Fix: A profitable $250 million retail disruptor
Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake has turned her startup into a profitable $250 million retail disruptor by layering big data on high style