Global Game
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Xander's Masterstrokes in a Slumping Market
With his realty fund and his conviction to back it, Sid Yog has bucked the slump
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Will Sailfish Take on Android in China?
After Nokia canned them and their open source mobile platform, a group of engineers decided to relaunch, and looked East. Good luck
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GVK's Big Australian Bet
GVK has to raise $7 billion in debt to succeed in its venture to mine coal Down Under and fight off stiff competition
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Auto Parts Giant Dana Holding is Changing Gears
Here’s a surprise: After a decade of debacles, auto parts titan Dana Holding is finally turning around, thanks to a new CEO with global ambitions
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One Woman, a hair dryer and a $20 million business
How Alli Webb turned her Drybar salon into a $20 million operation
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The Real Value of Reddit
The web’s anti-bullying, meme-spawning, porn-flecked link forum may go down as one of the shrewdest buys in the media business
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How Solar Panels Work Without Human Force
Solar panels have gotten so cheap that installlers are seeking new ways to push down the cost per clean kilowatt. One answer: Get rid of the humans
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Wall Street Wakes Up to New Sleeping Drugs
Merck’s potential rival to blockbuster Ambien is big medical news, but Wall Street’s reaction has been snoozy so far. That’s a big, big problem for drugmakers
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How Jeff Skoll Plans to Tackle Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship
The former eBay president has put $1 billion behind a new kind of philanthropy, a brew that blends social entrepreneurship and the power of media to tackle poverty and any other problem that piques his interest
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen's Health Philanthropy
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen helped revolutionise the world with personal computers. Now, he’s betting half a billion dollars that he can do something even more radical: Draw a circuit diagram of human consciousness
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Oprah Winfrey's Charity Show
Five years ago, the talk show titan’s altruism turned into the worst crisis of her adult life. Rather than abandon her South African school, Winfrey learnt from her mistakes—and doubled down on what she believed in