Global Game
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The Top 50 U.S. Dealmakers
Private equity may be getting pummeled on the US presidential election campaign trail, but the deal scene is boiling. Forbes ranks the biggest players not just by their war chests—and reputations—but also by the ultimate criterion: Successful exits delivered for investors
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What Renuka Sugars Learnt From Brazil
Narendra Murkumbi has learnt some bitter lessons with his Brazilian ventures, but he might be putting them to good use
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The Truth about Bain Capital
The house that Romney built has much more than an election-driven image problem. Just ask its investors
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The Kings of Private Equity
Private equity is the most politicised, scrutinised, vilified industry in America. Yet David Rubenstein and the Carlyle Group, once poster children for creepy Beltway connections, have managed to both avoid the criticism— and rake in billions
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Startups and US Navy's Biofuel Programme
As the US Navy embarks on a financially dubious biofuel programme, a host of startups are eager to cash in
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Ads Should be So Good That People Want to Share Them
David Droga’s got a simple enough solution to what ails the world’s biggest brands: Make ads so good people want to share them. How hard can that be?
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Why WordPress Founder isn't Internet's Richest Man
WordPress, the open-source blogging tool, controls 17 percent of the web. So why isn't founder Matt Mullenweg the richest guy on the planet?
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Qualcomm's Biggest Problem: Meeting Demand
No factories, no phones, no fuss. How CEO Paul Jacobs keeps the cellphone-chip company above the fray
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China's Steve Jobs?
Lei Jun is selling millions of groundbreaking smartphones and attracting a cultlike following
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Silicon Valley's Unlikely Saviour
Struggling to cash in on the social Web, Kleiner Perkins turned to the poster child of the first dot-com bubble: Mary Meeker
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The World Bank is Confused
With its $57 billion aid portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank