Global Game
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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
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Inside Sweden's innovation factory
Christian von Koenigsegg produces the fastest supercars on the planet—all by hand. But can he keep up with the demand for his new $2 million Regera? And can Detroit keep pace with his futuristic engineering?
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America's richest self-made women
Sixty trailblazers who have crashed ceilings through invention and innovation
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How to make $1 billion in your spare time
Practising dermatologists Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields have built a remarkable $1.1 billion fortune with two hugely successful skincare brands—and a whole lot of cringe-worthy marketing methods
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How Kazuhiro Tsuga is saving Panasonic
Four years ago, Kazuhiro Tsuga embarked on one of Japan Inc's most radical overhauls. But he's not done yet turning around the consumer-electronics giant