Global Game
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Actavis and the art of billion-dollar drug dealing
Brent Saunders generated $25 billion in value for investors by flipping drug companies rather than discovering new drugs. Is this the future of the pharmaceutical business?
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How Rebellion Photonics built a business on gas fumes
By creating a better tool for spotting gas leaks from oilfields and pipelines, tiny Rebellion Photonics got the jump on a global market no one else could see
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The hyperloop is fast as a plane and cheaper than a train
The race to turn Elon Musk's vision for high-speed travel in steel tubes is officially on. Buckle up
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Consumers are often tech guinea pigs, with or without knowing it
With and without our consent, websites, wearables and apps are running millions of experiments on us every day to make them more money and make us healthier, happier and smarter
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What keeps adultery site Ashley Madison ticking
You can scorn it, ban it, firewall it and throw Tinder at it. As a peek at the books shows, the Ashley Madison money machine rolls along
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America's young disruptors
Presenting today's greatest gathering of young game changers, movers and makers
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Pizza Studio set to disrupt the US fast food industry
Sometimes even the most saturated industries are ripe for disruption. Especially when a nuclear submarine commander focuses on the ultimate comfort food
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Xiaomi's Lei Jun: The Steve Jobs of China
Xiaomi's Lei Jun built one of the world's most valuable private tech companies by mimicking (and undercutting) the iPhone. Now he's going directly after Apple itself
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David Baazov: The king of online gambling is just 34
David Baazov went from sleeping on Montreal park benches to an $800 million personal fortune with a brazen bet on internet poker. Now he gets to up the ante
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WalMart heir Carrie Walton Penner: Force behind America's charter school movement
Sam Walton's granddaughter Carrie Walton Penner is the most influential force in public education that you've never heard of. She shares her plan to make charter schools a national option in America
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Savvy managers are turning around Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger drove his eponymous all-American fashion brand into the ground with a glut of cut-rate merchandise. Now a pair of savvy European saviours are bringing it back