Cross Border
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Kik Messenger may have the edge as bots power the internet
Kik Messenger is a huge hit with teens—and a sudden threat to Facebook in the race to create the world's mobile operating system. The company's 28-year-old founder thinks his bots give him the edge
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Cue Ball's John Hamel & Tony Tjan: Building a better startup
Cue Ball Group went looking for the next Starbucks and found a fresh approach to venture capital—one that emphasises entrepreneurs over exits
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John Koudounis: Wall Street's latest heavyweight
Japanese banks have been a long-running joke on Wall Street. One Greek-American banker with a taste for the glory days of finance aims to change all that
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America's giants: 25 best small companies
These 25 Small Giants have chosen to be great instead of big. Here's how we picked them
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The new hedge fund king
Amid a sea of dismal performances, a surfer dude with Einstein smarts is redefining the terms of quant trading
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Why Mazda believes the future is the past
The entire auto industry is betting on self-driving cars—except Mazda's Masamichi Kogai, who believes lots of people love to get behind the wheel
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Look who's saving Fitbit
Fitbit is losing market share to Apple, but that's okay. Corporate wellness is saving it
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Melinda Gates: The first woman of women
Melinda Gates is exerting her influence over the richest charitable foundation in history. In doing so, she's quickly become the most powerful advocate for women and girls in the world
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Ten big ideas to change the world
What happens when you put 150 altruistic billionaires, legendary entrepreneurs and Nobel Prize-worthy gamechangers in one room for a day to talk about ways to give smart and better? Some disruptive ideas regarding philanthropy
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Billionaire Don Hankey: An underdog's lender or a loan shark?
Don Hankey has become a billionaire charging sky-high interest on subprime car loans. Now he's moving into the sharing economy by partnering with Uber. Sounds sexy, but for Hankey it's just another attempt, like renting out his mansion, to earn an ironclad 30 percent return