Cross Border
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Vin Diesel: Film's future face
Brawny, brainy and racially ambiguous, Vin Diesel is exactly what global movie audiences want to see these days. And he's cashing in
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Guess how to blow $1.5 billion
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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Billion-dollar bloodlines: America's 200 richest families
List of America's 200 richest families
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Jackie Chan: Big bucks for big brother
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
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British chef Gordon Ramsay's rule
Vituperative British chef Gordon Ramsay has become Fox's biggest reality star—the best marketing plan ever for a global restaurant empire
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Katy Perry: Woman of the world
Katy Perry earned $135 million this year—more than any other entertainer on Earth. How the sheltered daughter of born-again ministers became America's top pop export
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Liang Yunchao: Croesus of capsules
The diet supplement business came big to Chinese retail, by way of By-health
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Nice guys hire better
High-flying tech companies face constant staffing challenges. Airbnb's process kills the chaos
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China's tech giants are painting the Silicon Valley red
China's tech giants—Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent—are quietly ploughing billions into America's hottest startups. Their goal: Slit each other's throats back home. The result: Astounding valuations for app developers
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Thai Lee: The modest tycoon
SHI International is the largest woman-owned business in America, and it's made Thai Lee a billionaire. She'd rather you not call her that
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'Improbable' merchants of parallel worlds
Improbable invented a new way to simulate almost any complex system in software. Warriors, gamers and economists are extremely interested