In Silicon Valley, brilliant coding and engineering is a given. The real value added, increasingly, comes from the people who can sell and humanise. Which is why tech startups suddenly crave liberal arts majors
As app development explodes on campuses, three Tufts undergrads may have just created an Instagram for music lovers
Small liberal arts colleges in US are reinventing themselves as entrepreneur hatcheries—both for billion-dollar startups and social change makers
The hucksters who once preyed on underwater mortgage holders have a new set of victims—those sinking under student loans
A startup called Docker cornered a new technology that bundles code and files so apps can run on any server, a breakthrough that has experts comparing it to VMware. Two years ago, it almost went bust
For investors, Brazil has gone from bonanza to basket case. One of its savviest financiers, Fernanda de Lima, thinks a real comeback is in the making
Brawny, brainy and racially ambiguous, Vin Diesel is exactly what global movie audiences want to see these days. And he's cashing in
The Marciano brothers made Guess the sexiest name in jeans and themselves a $2.7 billion fortune at its peak. Today the family and business are in tatters
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The most powerful person in the Chinese film industry? Martial arts legend Jackie Chan, who has combined a government perch with a capitalist's attitude to make himself extremely rich