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2012 November
11/30/2012 - The world’s fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking cities in 2012
11/30/2012 - Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has faith in the US property market—$10 billion worth of it
11/30/2012 - Why virtual currency Bitcoin can’t save the Iranian economy
11/30/2012 - These countries are at the greatest risk of an internet blackout
11/30/2012 - How women could be the big losers in the fiscal cliff deal
11/30/2012 - This week in photos: Demonstrations dominate in Tunisia, Egypt, Burma and Bangladesh
11/30/2012 - The biggest royal event in France since Versailles: Burger King is coming back
11/30/2012 - Even baseball players are worried about the fiscal cliff
11/30/2012 - Now here’s the fine print for your Groupon deal
11/30/2012 - Solutions to consider on Worlds AIDS Day: Send more girls to school and circumcise boys
11/30/2012 - London wants to be China’s banker
11/30/2012 - Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school?
11/30/2012 - Why Greece could be a spectacular investment right now
11/30/2012 - The breastfeeding problem no one talks about
11/30/2012 - Cairo’s graffiti scene, full of populism and political satire, flourishes after the revolution
11/30/2012 - Chinese people apparently still eat other forms of food besides KFC
11/30/2012 - Can this economy be saved? India’s GDP growth slows to 5.3%, rates not seen since post-Lehman collapse
11/30/2012 - Guess which European countries are most in favor of assisted suicide
11/30/2012 - CNN’s new strategy: More info-tainment or send Anderson Cooper back out in the field?
11/30/2012 - By funding a new battery lab, the US raises stakes in the renewable energy race against China
11/30/2012 - Germany’s parliament approves aid deal for Greece
11/30/2012 - Those sexy Samsungs: Why iPhones are no longer cool in China
11/30/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Syrian crisis, Google under pressure, India slows, bendy phones
11/30/2012 - A deal that could solve one of the biggest headaches in global oil: How India’s ONGC might come to Kazakhstan’s rescue
11/30/2012 - 27 countries in the European Union, 26 million people out of work
11/30/2012 - Video: UK Prime Minister is booed in Parliament and by press victims for rejecting press law idea
11/30/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—iPhone 5 in China, $25 tablets in India, Damascus, bendy phones
11/29/2012 - Here’s how countries voted on Palestinian statehood today—and Israeli statehood 65 years ago
11/29/2012 - Has Obama finally learned to make the big ask in US fiscal talks?
11/29/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Thai stock offering, $4.20 lattes in China, $25 tablets in India
11/29/2012 - China’s stock market is plunging because investors don’t trust their government
11/29/2012 - GE, a pioneer of outsourcing, is bringing American manufacturing back to life
11/29/2012 - Wall Street thinks RIM is back! Just don’t count on it to stick around
11/29/2012 - US GDP: Not terrible, actually
11/29/2012 - Welcome to the middle class, China: The $5 cup of Starbucks has arrived
11/29/2012 - Why was an energy company at AIDS 2012?
11/29/2012 - The People’s Republic of Vermont: Secession is all the rage from the deep south to Basque country
11/29/2012 - When the time comes—and it will—to cancel Greek debt, do it the Paris Club way
11/29/2012 - Don’t sleep on the US housing recovery. It is for real
11/29/2012 - Fighting racism, one bowl of goulash at a time
11/29/2012 - The US Joint Strike Fighter program is projected to cost two-thirds of the war in Afghanistan
11/29/2012 - A legion of robots from China could change the future of manufacturing
11/29/2012 - A trade war wages across US consulates in India over H-1B visas. Is a truce in sight?
11/29/2012 - American heirs left to battle for Nazi-looted art in the courts
11/29/2012 - Syria has cut itself off from the internet and shut down cellular service
11/29/2012 - British media need a tighter leash, recommends Leveson Inquiry
11/29/2012 - How much debt does China have? No one knows exactly!
11/29/2012 - Partnering with NASA: Chevron and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory join space technology with energy exploration
11/29/2012 - Exchanges vs. brokerages: the power struggle at the heart of high frequency trading
11/29/2012 - A better view on efficiency
11/29/2012 - China’s heavy investment in English-language media isn’t going too well
11/29/2012 - $25 tablets, $2 mobile data plans, and zero margins–how the internet is about to gain 3 billion new users
11/29/2012 - Microsoft just cut in half its orders to suppliers for the Surface RT tablet
11/29/2012 - German unemployment keeps going up
11/29/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Barack meets Mitt, new iTunes, Fleet Street reckoning, Palestine
11/29/2012 - The next SEC chairman is responsible for the success of Wall Street, main street and the boardroom
11/29/2012 - Siemens agrees to buy UK railway business, while shedding a non-core business
11/29/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—BP’s US ban, new iTunes, trouble in coupon-land, Geisha coffee
11/28/2012 - Argentina won’t be defaulting this year, after all
11/28/2012 - Obama adviser says the American auto bailout is still under water—but a success
11/28/2012 - New iTunes expected Thursday in big test of Apple’s digital media strength
11/28/2012 - “Twitter is part of my job,” and other things managers need to know about working with Millennials
11/28/2012 - A look inside the world’s cheapest tablet computer, India’s $20 Aakash 2 (VIDEO)
11/28/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—French power, Palestinian statehood, insider trading, Twitter epidemiology
11/28/2012 - France still hasn’t figured business out. Exhibit A: Hollande vs. ArcelorMittal
11/28/2012 - Note to global economy: You are producing way too much steel. Knock it off
11/28/2012 - Superstorm Sandy’s harsh toll on Newark’s new cars
11/28/2012 - Formula One, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans
11/28/2012 - BP has been called incompetent, reckless and negligent, but “dishonest” is worse
11/28/2012 - A worthless, $65 million piece of art ends up in MoMA
11/28/2012 - SEC to SAC: Here we come
11/28/2012 - The firm that lost $450 mln in 40 minutes is suddenly a hot property
11/28/2012 - Why the first foreigner in 318 years to run the Bank of England is a good choice
11/28/2012 - While you’re buying stocks like an idiot, the smart money has been buying farmland
11/28/2012 - Dear Carla Bruni, France still needs feminism. Love, Twitter
11/28/2012 - A billionaire’s bid to make sailing the new NASCAR
11/28/2012 - How the US last paid off its debt: Stealing land from Native Americans
11/28/2012 - Some of America’s richest people are about to get even richer thanks to the fiscal cliff
11/28/2012 - China is the new economic superpower in the eyes of the world
11/28/2012 - The poker game’s over: Indonesia bans government ministers from overseas travel amid corruption crisis
11/28/2012 - Spanish banks get bailed out, but bank employees and shareholders will lose out
11/28/2012 - With momentum for real immigration reform in the US, why resort to old, stupid ideas?
11/28/2012 - In France, have six kids and ride the rails at a 75% discount. How government can boost birth rates
11/28/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Goldman Sachs, Nokia-RIM spat, tobacco “lies”, beaver moon
11/28/2012 - 40% of foreign students in the US have no close friends on campus: The culture shock of loneliness
11/28/2012 - The invisible bailout: Why the US economy is growing while Europe’s slides
11/28/2012 - Luxury brand Burberry and outsourcing giant HCL applied this management strategy to reinvent themselves
11/28/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – Goldman Sachs, iPhone sales, Cairo crisis, sleep-texting
11/27/2012 - Digitally backward Australian retailers are about to learn a brutal Christmas lesson
11/27/2012 - Markets fail to be stunned as US Treasury declines to label China a currency manipulator
11/27/2012 - Paypal nearly tripled its mobile payment volume on Cyber Monday
11/27/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—A colony on Mars, the US fiscal cliff, and the lottery
11/27/2012 - Russia’s big telecom IPO also happens to be a company that leaked 8,000 text messages online
11/27/2012 - America’s “Pacific pivot”: strategic in the long term, lucrative in the short term
11/27/2012 - Hey Europe! Want someone to build your roads? Forget the bank—go talk to…a pension fund?
11/27/2012 - At $500 million, the Powerball lottery has never been a better bet
11/27/2012 - Why isn’t anyone in the US talking about Lael Brainard for Treasury Secretary?
11/27/2012 - Buy a home, get a visa: For a mere €160,000 you can become a Spanish resident
11/27/2012 - China’s factories post profits in October. Good news for Australia
11/27/2012 - Apple outsells Android in the US, for what could be the last time ever
11/27/2012 - Now what? The Greece deal isn’t really a “deal”
11/27/2012 - Perhaps US business is not cowering in fear of the fiscal cliff after all
11/27/2012 - Why the euro zone is the greatest threat to global economic recovery
11/27/2012 - Democrats and Republicans should adopt each other’s income tax plans
11/27/2012 - Suit alleges H-P tried to back out of Autonomy deal before it closed
11/27/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Greek debt relief, OECD misery, US housing, M&A Gangnam style
11/27/2012 - In the new Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is a politician who must choose sides carefully
11/27/2012 - Oil companies have the most to gain or lose from climate change—so why aren’t they preparing for it?
11/27/2012 - Europe makes further charitable contribution with new Greek aid deal
11/27/2012 - The bank that specializes in rescuing Chinese firms from the glare of publicity
11/27/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Greek debt deal, Arcelor Mittal, HP sued, President of Ironystan
11/26/2012 - These are the clothing labels left behind in the Bangladesh factory fire that killed 112 workers
11/26/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—France vs. industry, exhuming Arafat, SEC, BoE, and weird retail
11/26/2012 - The supersonic Concorde was once the future of aviation. Nine years later, nobody’s missing it
11/26/2012 - Supermarkets without cash registers, Amazon in strip malls: the future of retail is weird
11/26/2012 - Retailers show support for “showrooming”
11/26/2012 - Reform permits, schools, and money markets: Quick fixes that will grow China’s economy
11/26/2012 - The iPhone isn’t all made in China, but US import statistics say it is. Why the global economy must demand accurate data
11/26/2012 - Meet the Canadian who’s about to run the Bank of England
11/26/2012 - Americans’ record $1 billion online binge on Black Friday is nothing compared to Chinese e-commerce
11/26/2012 - France to ArcelorMittal: if you don’t like losing money, get out of France
11/26/2012 - A new set of guidelines in the US have turned children into “little mathematicians” who don’t know how to do actual math
11/26/2012 - Could Europe’s most troubled countries end up better off than the US and Japan?
11/26/2012 - Scandinavia provides a least bad option for investors
11/26/2012 - Quartz Brief—What you need to know about in the world right now
11/26/2012 - The end of the world is nigh—and here’s who stands to profit
11/26/2012 - Students most often cite Wikipedia in their bibliographies. Why that could kill future startups
11/26/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas Edition—Egypt unrest, climate-change talks, Putin’s error, bye-bye Barak
11/26/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Egypt unrest, climate-change talks, Chinese jets, Putin’s error
11/25/2012 - Climate talks convene in one of the world’s least sustainable countries
11/25/2012 - Mohammed Morsi: Abe Lincoln in disguise or another Mubarak?
11/25/2012 - Quartz Brief: What you need to know about in the world right now
11/25/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Egypt unrest, US retail sales, decision-making biases
11/25/2012 - How a Chinese company plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in 90 days
11/25/2012 - Documents link Bangladesh factory, where more than 100 died in fire, to Wal-Mart
11/25/2012 - Mobile phones—especially 3G ones—make economies grow faster
11/24/2012 - Growth of Black Friday online spending slowed despite the iPad’s emergence as a major shopping tool
11/24/2012 - How to predict the geopolitics of energy, using a new indicator of disruption
11/24/2012 - Don’t wait until 65: The key to a happy, creative work force is to retire early and often
11/23/2012 - In China, Bridget Jones is a man—and he’s big business
11/23/2012 - European budget talks collapse after barely a day’s worth of meetings
11/23/2012 - China ratchets up its territorial disputes with cheeky new passports
11/23/2012 - American consumers share the blame for Wal-Mart’s exploitation of its workers
11/23/2012 - Thailand’s opposition is restive but a coup seems unlikely and the business climate could improve
11/23/2012 - Black Friday makes it official: ‘Tis the season for companies to wade through big data
11/23/2012 - German industry perks up
11/23/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Egypt backslides, EU budget, Wal-mart, Black Friday, Ninjas
11/23/2012 - Early EU budget concessions favor farm subsidies over funds to spur economic growth
11/23/2012 - Wal-Mart India suspends CFO and legal team in corruption probe
11/23/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Egypt backslides, trouble in Thailand, Facebook ads, Ninjas
11/23/2012 - Six charts on climate change that should have you very, very worried
11/22/2012 - This week in photos: Obama in Myanmar, protests in Cairo, and more
11/22/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Egypt backslides, the BBC reboots, Facebook Instagrams ads
11/22/2012 - 25 surprising facts about the increasingly mobile nature of online and in-store retail
11/22/2012 - What Facebook’s new terms of service really mean: Ads are coming to Instagram
11/22/2012 - Death of a dishwasher: Families around the world spurn America’s favorite appliance
11/22/2012 - The revenge of Tintin? Belgium plots a comic-book comeback
11/22/2012 - Bad appearances: Sarkozy’s day in court could ruin his political future
11/22/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Sarkozy scandal, GM deal, Thanksgiving travel, “returnships”
11/22/2012 - What the business traveler knows: You can be plenty thankful at a table for one
11/22/2012 - What the world can learn from Singapore’s safe and squeaky-clean high-rise housing projects
11/22/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—EU budget, Sarkozy scandal, GM deal, Tofurky
11/21/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—China wobbles, India dithers, US eats, Earth warms, $100 bills spread
11/21/2012 - YY Inc. pulls off major feat: a smooth US IPO for a Chinese tech company
11/21/2012 - HP might not be writing off $8.8 bln today had it not lost its CEO to a sex scandal
11/21/2012 - HP, Autonomy, the US elections, the UBS rogue trader, and the limits of data
11/21/2012 - Tel Aviv is the world’s best city for startups after Silicon Valley
11/21/2012 - Your Christmas gadgets aren’t getting much cheaper this year
11/21/2012 - Santander considers cutting off more of its overseas fingers and toes
11/21/2012 - Deutsche Bank seeks new blood to rebuild trust in bankers: older women please apply
11/21/2012 - Watch out, Google: Baidu now borrows more cheaply than the Chinese government
11/21/2012 - The US budget deficit is shrinking faster than at any time since World War II
11/21/2012 - Mobile networks are missing out on a huge market in transferring money to the world’s poor
11/21/2012 - Japanese exports to China continue to suffer, amid island squabble
11/21/2012 - Black Friday is not actually about saving the shoppers money
11/21/2012 - Why the share of $100 bills in circulation has been going up for over 40 years
11/21/2012 - Greece aid delayed again as European leaders—and investors—grow weary
11/21/2012 - Dump the H-1B visa. Link immigration reform to what a global economy actually needs—workers who can come and go
11/21/2012 - US government hacked into French presidential office, spied on senior officials, says news report
11/21/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Black Friday, Gaza, China’s back-room leadership deals, fish
11/20/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe edition – Black Friday, Gaza, US home sales, fish appreciation, Paris Hilton
11/20/2012 - This is what the publishing industry will look like if the Big Six become the Big Four
11/20/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—France downgrade, Asia pivot, kill switch, pirates
11/20/2012 - Who’s really going to feel the brunt of the fiscal cliff: America’s poorest
11/20/2012 - Is it better to self-give than to receive?
11/20/2012 - One of the world’s top investors foresees bleak US growth for decades. Here’s a reason to ignore him
11/20/2012 - There is only one thing that can save Japan now: Inflation
11/20/2012 - Americans to spend quality time with their coworkers this holiday season
11/20/2012 - Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s solution to the fiscal cliff? Americans should do more work
11/20/2012 - How the electronic deutsche mark can save Europe
11/20/2012 - Could workers’ protests make Black Friday really black for Wal-Mart?
11/20/2012 - How to be profitable: Make stuff that people want
11/20/2012 - Is this man being groomed for China’s next leadership transition in 2022?
11/20/2012 - What family firms can learn from Samsung’s internal battle and its two memorial services held yesterday
11/20/2012 - Want to face a libel suit? Just hit “retweet”
11/20/2012 - Insider traders, drug dealers—the language is much the same
11/20/2012 - Autonomy is just the latest bad egg in a misguided HP shopping spree
11/20/2012 - Frozen turkey from Utah, canned pumpkin from Mexico: My all-American Thanksgiving in China
11/20/2012 - Is HSBC trying to sell its stake in Ping An to China’s sovereign wealth fund?
11/20/2012 - What an American meat company’s earnings say about global carnivorism
11/20/2012 - Waiting for more than a decade to enter the US is unacceptable: Trust but verify—quickly
11/20/2012 - Around the world, oil aplenty, but no way to market
11/20/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas edition – Credit Suisse split, Grexit, Hewlett-Packard, Europe in space?
11/20/2012 - Embattled France takes another blow with a ratings downgrade
11/20/2012 - Today’s Greek debt talks aren’t about Greek debt, but the IMF’s credibility
11/19/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe edition – Mega mining merger, Grexit, Indian Facebook arrests
11/19/2012 - Anonymous outgunned in its “cyberwar” with Israel
11/19/2012 - Five reasons HSBC would sell its $9 bln stake in Chinese insurer Ping An
11/19/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Housing, Glencore-Xstrata, Shadow Banking, Love Bonuses
11/19/2012 - Where would rockets land if Gaza were in your backyard?
11/19/2012 - Science explains why Americans love Black Friday
11/19/2012 - When the Yakuza come calling, one in five Japanese companies admit to paying them off
11/19/2012 - Why Intel’s next CEO should come from Israel
11/19/2012 - Saving the sun’s shine: Storage technology could revolutionize the power grid
11/19/2012 - Why Wall Street should care more about the fighting between Israel and Hamas
11/19/2012 - BP’s image will recover with millions of PR dollars and your faulty memory
11/19/2012 - More signs that the US housing rebound is staying strong
11/19/2012 - Burmese don’t know what to think about Obama
11/19/2012 - It’s official: Windows 8 is a disappointment
11/19/2012 - 30% of people end up working in the careers they dreamed of as kids
11/19/2012 - Congrats! You may be involved with the shadow banking system
11/19/2012 - Intel: Three charts that tell the story of the Otellini era
11/19/2012 - Russia shouldn’t be one of the BRICs
11/19/2012 - Toys R Us boss argues e-commerce isn’t green as war for holiday shoppers begins
11/19/2012 - Despite Hostess bankruptcy, Twinkies could really last forever
11/19/2012 - More than half of Brits vote to ditch the EU
11/19/2012 - Are the markets being too cheerful about the US fiscal cliff?
11/19/2012 - Welcome to America. Startups, patent holders, and iPhone programmers, please come to the front of the line
11/19/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Obama in Myanmar, HSBC, SAS, Alibaba-Sina, banana king bust
11/19/2012 - Here’s what Europe is spending less on while Europeans get bigger and, as a result, sicker: healthcare
11/18/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Corporate tax, China’s yuan, Alibaba-Sina, investing in condoms
11/18/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—SAS, shadow banking, volatility, beards
11/18/2012 - Why Opera thrives in Europe’s last dictatorship
11/18/2012 - How to fix the world
11/17/2012 - Should I stay or should I go? How an Indian family decided to return home
11/17/2012 - The charismatic fascist: Mourning Indian politician Bal Thackeray is as complicated as he was
11/17/2012 - How to do an oil deal in Nigeria: A tale of middlemen and millions
11/16/2012 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Bonus Edition—Obama in Asia, K-Pop, James Bond, Mr. Donkey
11/16/2012 - This week in photos: Lights in India, rockets in Gaza, and more
11/16/2012 - In buying distressed debt, Occupy Wall Street shows its knack for organizing
11/16/2012 - India has a bold solution to the US college crisis: Federal universities
11/16/2012 - You Google wrong–lessons from a class on Power Searching
11/16/2012 - Rich countries with the most generous unemployment benefits
11/16/2012 - On eBay, the starting bid for a single Twinkie is now $5,000
11/16/2012 - Proof that austerity measures are making European economies worse, not better
11/16/2012 - Why rich countries can’t have $20 tablets—yet
11/16/2012 - Japan’s problems in numbers
11/16/2012 - The Turkish bank that escaped being sucked into the European black hole
11/16/2012 - Why it was so easy for Korea to overtake Japan in the pop culture wars
11/16/2012 - Memo to Hostess: It’s not labor costs. It’s that your cakes are “cheap, unhealthy, and outmoded”
11/16/2012 - Viviane Reding: Why Europe must put women on corporate boards
11/16/2012 - Snap election will keep Japan from falling off its own fiscal cliff
11/16/2012 - How new energy trends will give the US and China an edge over Europe
11/16/2012 - What keeps China’s leadership up at night is that their people won’t tolerate new polluting plants
11/16/2012 - Superbugs are spreading in Europe as antibiotics are overused
11/16/2012 - Hostess, maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, says it will shut down
11/16/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Cliff-diving, City of London shrinks, Geneva snubs rich, Marx
11/16/2012 - It pays for companies to do the right thing. Even Adam Smith would agree
11/16/2012 - Move over, Greece; it’s France’s turn to be Europe’s disaster poster child
11/16/2012 - Burying bad news: China banks’ bad debts keep rising, regulator says on day country gets new leaders
11/16/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – Japan election, Apple-Samsung spat, legal bribery, Karl Marx
11/15/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Cliff dive, hara-kiri, BP’s fine, bakhsheesh
11/15/2012 - A breakdown of the $4.5 billion worth of crimes BP committed
11/15/2012 - Behind the images of Greece’s riots, there’s an economy slowly dying
11/15/2012 - It’s not that women take fewer risks than men, they just have less money to gamble with
11/15/2012 - Yesterday Russia lost contact with every last one of its space satellites
11/15/2012 - High-frequency trading doesn’t hurt the little guy
11/15/2012 - Spotify’s plan for rescuing the music industry: let it fall apart first
11/15/2012 - This chicken chain’s ads mock everyone from Zimbabwe’s dictator to white people
11/15/2012 - Women senators hit the porcelain ceiling as a bill for more bathrooms circles the drain
11/15/2012 - Greek immigration to Germany surges
11/15/2012 - This is what Tel Aviv looks like on Instagram right now as air raid sirens sound
11/15/2012 - BP pays a record criminal fine to put the Gulf oil spill behind it
11/15/2012 - A rising tide of American oil could lift all the world’s ships
11/15/2012 - The world’s richest college dropout urges US colleges to stop dropouts
11/15/2012 - What a hurricane looks like when you’re an economist, part 527: jobless claims
11/15/2012 - Welcome back to recession, euro zone. No one is surprised to see you
11/15/2012 - Skip the fur coat and generator. How to bribe a foreign government official—legally
11/15/2012 - There’s chocolate, and there’s Lindt Chocolate. CEO Ernst Tanner is building growth by following a simple plan: quality
11/15/2012 - These pictures from social media say what the Chinese people can’t about their new leaders
11/15/2012 - Leadership transition disheartens young Chinese, or at least the few paying attention
11/15/2012 - The eurozone is officially back in recession
11/15/2012 - China’s new leaders are conservative hardliners: “Reforms will occur slowly” and other realities
11/15/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – China’s new leaders, euro zone back in recession, BP, Nutella
11/15/2012 - Britain faces the loss of its triple-A credit rating if the euro zone sinks into recession. Guess what just happened?
11/15/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—China’s final lineup, Japan calls election, Syria, Nutella
11/15/2012 - The new Chinese leadership: A guide to China’s Men in Black
11/14/2012 - A New York City restaurant just got royally panned. Why it’s the best of Times for dining
11/14/2012 - The instant guide to why Greece’s lenders are deluding themselves about its recovery
11/14/2012 - Mass suicide in the Politburo, Hu Jintao’s original speech, and other stories that make us rethink China coverage
11/14/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—China’s leaders, MF Global, war via Twitter, teatime
11/14/2012 - Military strikes go viral: Israel is live-tweeting its own offensive into Gaza
11/14/2012 - One man’s crusade to end the hysteria over cyberwar
11/14/2012 - Zara’s big idea: What the world’s top fashion retailer tells us about innovation
11/14/2012 - Starbucks says: It’s teatime in America
11/14/2012 - Here are President Obama’s priorities for US economic policy
11/14/2012 - Greece has a depression worse than Weimar Germany’s—and malaria too
11/14/2012 - Is anyone in charge? The global shipping industry cannot afford to go off the US fiscal cliff
11/14/2012 - Five things CEOs are worried about this holiday shopping season
11/14/2012 - Fifteen reasons why China’s economy is still shaky—and what the new leadership can do about it
11/14/2012 - Actually, the GIF is dying
11/14/2012 - Eton: Why James Bond’s and David Cameron’s prep school still makes leaders
11/14/2012 - British economic data are confusing: Unemployment down, jobless claims up
11/14/2012 - Wall Street is willing to work with Obama—under these conditions
11/14/2012 - Inside Vietnam’s hush-hush banking crisis
11/14/2012 - This Rothko sold for $75 million
11/14/2012 - Why do some CEOs want higher taxes on the wealthy? Lower taxes on their companies
11/14/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Taxing the 1%, Goldman’s shrinking jackpot, China’s new leaders
11/14/2012 - Big data will be big business in India
11/14/2012 - Lousy industrial production numbers from Ireland, Portugal, Greece and others
11/14/2012 - Europeans take to the streets to say politicians have lost the plot
11/14/2012 - Amazon and the art of evasion
11/14/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – China leadership, euro zone data, Sandy topples a CEO
11/13/2012 - No more drinking baijiu with the minister, and other rules for foreign firms in China
11/13/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Party votes, BNY settles, French swindled, Brazilians godless
11/13/2012 - Guy in charge of 7% of Facebook’s revenue now in charge of 84% of Zynga’s revenue
11/13/2012 - 100 minutes of lip service: Outgoing China president lambasts the corruption he presided over
11/13/2012 - Petraeus’s new gig: secretary of defense in “Call of Duty”
11/13/2012 - Jobless, homeless, suicidal: Spain’s government can only blame itself for this crisis
11/13/2012 - Men sleeping with junior colleagues is old news, but boards urgently outing them is new
11/13/2012 - Why do companies keep sending print catalogs? Because they work
11/13/2012 - Government requests to remove content from Google have nearly doubled, driven by Turkey
11/13/2012 - One chart that tells the story of US debt from 1790 to 2011
11/13/2012 - Wall Street now slightly less overpaid
11/13/2012 - After Norway forced companies to fill 40% of board seats with women, company values declined 2.6%
11/13/2012 - Too much grammar, too few teachers: The French education system is failing
11/13/2012 - How did half the world’s population become a “diversity” problem?
11/13/2012 - Greece avoids default today, but the road ahead could be brutal
11/13/2012 - Global markets curling into fetal position, as fiscal cliff looms
11/13/2012 - Windows 8 chief Steven Sinofsky leaves abruptly. What now for Microsoft?
11/13/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Rows about Greece, trouble in Vietnam, burritos
11/13/2012 - The Dog Index: What man’s best friend tells us about global economic development
11/13/2012 - Did UK energy companies pull a LIBOR?
11/13/2012 - Europe’s game of wait-and-see could cripple its future
11/12/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Greece, Vietnam banks, Oz office woes, rude parrot
11/12/2012 - Meet the PC that will be the death of the PC
11/12/2012 - What Skyfall’s blockbuster ticket sales tell us about the global movie market
11/12/2012 - Baghdad and Kurdistan both need Big Oil on their side, but only the Kurds know how to attract it
11/12/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Cliff talks, Petraeus emails, Chinese stimulus, burritos
11/12/2012 - How email weakness let the FBI spy on the CIA chief and his paramour
11/12/2012 - Is the BBC a den of iniquity, a rudderless ship, or just getting sloppy?
11/12/2012 - Why 22% of Spaniards won’t get a job even if their economy booms
11/12/2012 - An Amazon engineer had a little idea that turned into a billion-dollar business
11/12/2012 - In praise of the extremely ugly and highly functional corporate website
11/12/2012 - What Amazon, Google, and Starbucks said to MPs about why they pay little or no UK tax
11/12/2012 - How Norway overtook Abu Dhabi as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund
11/12/2012 - GE’s growth in Brazil seeks to leapfrog over pollution and wasteful ways
11/12/2012 - Why are Londoners building slums in their backyards?
11/12/2012 - British lawmakers are taking Starbucks to task for tax dodging
11/12/2012 - “Baby Berkshire,” Leucadia to buy smaller Wall Street firm Jefferies
11/12/2012 - Why there’s a boom in Chinese students attending US universities
11/12/2012 - 2,780 reasons why coal isn’t finished quite yet
11/12/2012 - China’s railway ministry will spend $32 billion by Christmas, even though demand for its services is muted
11/12/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Multinational tax tactics, James Bond, $20 tablet, fat tax
11/12/2012 - Greece faces debt default this week, while Eurocrats bicker over aid details
11/12/2012 - The Great Firewall of China looms higher around the Communist Party congress
11/12/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – Multinational tax tactics, James Bond, $20 tablet computer
11/11/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Asia Edition – Multinational tax tactics, James Bond, $20 tablet computer
11/11/2012 - How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions and transform computing as we know it
11/11/2012 - How Indian immigrants could save the Republican Party
11/11/2012 - The smart guesswork that applies even in Nate Silver’s world
11/11/2012 - Consultant, consult thyself: Why Gaddafi’s former spin doctor, the Monitor Group, filed for bankruptcy
11/10/2012 - George Entwistle resigns as head of BBC
11/10/2012 - China reports biggest trade surplus for nearly four years
11/10/2012 - In the global economy of 2060, China and India will be the biggest, but still not the richest
11/9/2012 - How much would you pay to never see an online ad again?
11/9/2012 - Thank goodness it’s Friday, the day no one will ever read about this story, ever
11/9/2012 - Lessons from IBM’s near-implosion in the mid-1990s
11/9/2012 - This week in photos: US presidential election, China’s 18th party congress, and more
11/9/2012 - The fiscal cliff deal shaping up between Obama and Boehner
11/9/2012 - Can America solve its fiscal cliff with a carbon tax? Probably not
11/9/2012 - It’s easier to get your kid into Harvard than into a London kindergarten
11/9/2012 - From the 4,000-year-old mother of all economies, a dire warning about the US fiscal cliff
11/9/2012 - Google blocked in China, amid leadership transition
11/9/2012 - Chinese industrial production bounced back in October
11/9/2012 - Indonesia is one of the world’s most corrupt countries. Here’s why there’s new hope
11/9/2012 - First a supermodel, now her mother: EADS chairman caught in embarrassing moments on film again
11/9/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – New York gas rations, SEC hacked, Diageo, business of pot
11/9/2012 - 5 things Obama must do to help the US maintain a global edge
11/9/2012 - Crédit Agricole’s $3.6 billion loss thanks to Greece
11/9/2012 - Diageo set to take over Vijay Mallya’s United Spirits in an Anglo-Indian booze-up
11/9/2012 - US regulator left sensitive information vulnerable to hacking, says Reuters
11/9/2012 - Lower Chinese inflation eases way for more government economic stimulus
11/9/2012 - The US and China make tentative progress on dealing with Chinese “stir-fry” accounting frauds
11/9/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – Chinese opacity, SEC hacked, business of pot
11/9/2012 - Honeywell CEO Dave Cote has two tips for doing business in China
11/8/2012 - Here’s why Obama should nominate Michael Bloomberg as Treasury secretary
11/8/2012 - What Priceline’s purchase of Kayak means: Brand power and big mobile push
11/8/2012 - The big business of pot is still, like, a long way away, man
11/8/2012 - Letter to the editor: Critique of IHS and Yergin is false and unwarranted
11/8/2012 - Kayak purchase seals Priceline’s reputation: The best acquirer of internet properties
11/8/2012 - Apple stock is the cheapest it’s been since 2001
11/8/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Chinese opacity, Barack to Burma, $1 trillion man, $2.7 trillion list
11/8/2012 - Female immigrants also won big in the US election
11/8/2012 - An Egyptian startup wants to move farmers into the sun and away from the Nile
11/8/2012 - Banks behaving badly: a roundup
11/8/2012 - The iPhone’s impact on global macroeconomic data, part 86
11/8/2012 - The Republicans lost the election because of their shameful record on immigration
11/8/2012 - Sandy as a glimpse into the future: Americans should prepare for a scarcity of resources and a fight for survival
11/8/2012 - Bloomberg’s rich list: The top 200
11/8/2012 - The good news: US unemployment’s coming down. The bad news: Not by much
11/8/2012 - Apple’s new patent on rounded corners isn’t even the world’s most absurd patent
11/8/2012 - iPhone cedes its crown, outsold by Samsung Galaxy S3
11/8/2012 - China’s leadership transition doesn’t look good if you’re a foreign business
11/8/2012 - Obama won because the average American voter understands economics
11/8/2012 - European Central Bank keeps rates the same
11/8/2012 - When will India spend its $1 trillion infrastructure budget? “I would say never”
11/8/2012 - The Bank of England leaves rates unchanged and refrains from new stimulus
11/8/2012 - Here is what the US thinks it knows about China’s nuclear capabilities
11/8/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas Edition—Fiscal Cliff, Chinese nukes, Siemens cuts, laziness
11/8/2012 - EADS leaders remain cheerful following profit decline and office raids
11/8/2012 - Is the energy industry being punished for its bad election bet?
11/8/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Greek unrest, Chinese nukes, legal marijuana, laziness
11/7/2012 - Investors hate US elections: see how stocks have reacted to the past 10
11/7/2012 - Vietnam is luring US and South Korean tech companies away from China
11/7/2012 - Wall Street’s big trading banks know the good old days are over
11/7/2012 - Three reasons why US stocks had their worst day of the year
11/7/2012 - Greece bends to Europe and passes harsh new austerity bill
11/7/2012 - Wall Street Offers a Second Career for Former Politicians
11/7/2012 - Think you’re a Republican? Or a Democrat? I bet that would change if you hung out with more politicians—or their staffs
11/7/2012 - What family-owned mega-enterprises do better than you do
11/7/2012 - Sergey Brin is missing the point of political parties in a democracy
11/7/2012 - Why it’s more significant that America elected a black president for a second term
11/7/2012 - Seven men, 18 reforms, zero ping-pong balls and one moat: China’s leadership change in numbers
11/7/2012 - Four things technologists the world over need to know about the next four years
11/7/2012 - Gun companies pop on Obama’s win because he’s been good for guns
11/7/2012 - 10 things that will get even weirder in the next US presidential campaign
11/7/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Greek austerity, Draghi time, same-sex marriage, “Merlande”
11/7/2012 - Good days for Russia’s newest oil generals, bad days for Russia
11/7/2012 - The second worst trade of 2012? Wall Street’s terrible presidential bet
11/7/2012 - Forget the fiscal cliff, remember…Germany?
11/7/2012 - See how Obama’s victory developed on sites from the Times to Xinhua
11/7/2012 - Obama won by uniting an improbable mix across America’s racial and economic divides
11/7/2012 - Obama could really help the US economy by pushing for more legal immigration
11/7/2012 - Europe’s recession is worsening
11/7/2012 - Germany is making a crucial bet to hang onto its manufacturing prowess
11/7/2012 - How to earn $170,000 a year driving a truck (Warning: it’s messy)
11/7/2012 - Pearson emphatically denies a sale of the Financial Times. Do we believe it this time?
11/7/2012 - Why Obama won: Negative ads, Ohio, minorities, and the 47%
11/7/2012 - Chinese netizens react to Obama win: Some cried, while others long for democracy or Hillary Clinton
11/7/2012 - German industry output falls
11/7/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Obama’s to-do list, FT “not for sale”, US states legalize pot
11/7/2012 - Telefonica stays on track for year-end targets with growth outside Europe
11/7/2012 - In Israel, Obama’s reelection dawns on a jaded but still hopeful country
11/7/2012 - Is this the worst election for Wall Street in decades?
11/7/2012 - Puerto Rico vote could launch island territory on path to US statehood
11/7/2012 - What an Obama victory means for US-Asia relations
11/7/2012 - Barack Obama re-elected president of the United States
11/7/2012 - Get me @WhiteHouse: World leaders congratulate Obama in an age of Twitter
11/7/2012 - Obama has a chance to join Roosevelt and Reagan as an economic icon
11/7/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—US election, German slowdown, FT “not for sale”, ants
11/7/2012 - Why Mexico could not be happier that Washington and Colorado just legalized marijuana
11/6/2012 - The first things Obama needs to do to cement his economic legacy
11/6/2012 - Why an Obama victory isn’t a win for America’s poor
11/6/2012 - Even after the election, the markets will remain leaderless
11/6/2012 - This isn’t even close to being the most expensive US election ever
11/6/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—US election, German slowdown, FT sale, the greatest rogue trader ever
11/6/2012 - How New Jersey’s elections will lead to “drama on a local scale that we saw in Florida in 2000”
11/6/2012 - Photos of unusual US polling places: beauty salons, laundromats, and some guy’s garage
11/6/2012 - The global e-voting disaster: Why the US and the world shouldn’t try to make elections too high tech
11/6/2012 - S&P 500 closes just below where it was when Bush and Gore were on the ballot
11/6/2012 - Get a tan or go abroad: Europe’s unemployment inspires desperate measures
11/6/2012 - Pearson is said to be considering selling the Financial Times
11/6/2012 - What America’s embarrassing election system can learn from voting around the globe
11/6/2012 - EU authorities may soon strike a deal with Apple on ebook price fixing investigation
11/6/2012 - The real loser in the US election will be the economy
11/6/2012 - Top Goldman Sachs economist sees same world as Obama
11/6/2012 - Why urban Indians care more about the US presidential elections than their own
11/6/2012 - Coffee table books weather publishing’s decline
11/6/2012 - Watch these CEOs cry: Sharp and Panasonic join Japan’s best corporate apologies
11/6/2012 - Suzuki will no longer sell cars on the US mainland
11/6/2012 - How my Greek friends and I spend the most productive years of our lives: Apply for jobs. Check email. No response. Repeat. So the days go by
11/6/2012 - Germany: Still having trouble staying out of European vortex
11/6/2012 - Italy rejects a plan to funnel non-performing loans into a “bad bank”
11/6/2012 - China considers internal democratic reform ahead of leadership change
11/6/2012 - France tries to boost business
11/6/2012 - The emerging tale of the British businessman killed in China: Who really was Neil Heywood?
11/6/2012 - Business and government: the winners and losers of the US election
11/6/2012 - Meet the most successful rogue trader of all time
11/6/2012 - 58 countries with better voter turnout than the United States
11/6/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Election, Greek strikes, BMW, Dracula
11/6/2012 - Alcatel-Lucent to cut thousands more jobs
11/6/2012 - BMW surprises the market with good news, but sees tough times ahead
11/6/2012 - Putin dismisses Russian defense minister following a corruption scandal
11/6/2012 - Why 27 countries can’t agree on how to stop themselves all losing billions a year to VAT fraud
11/5/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Elections, Greek austerity, MI6, Chinese cyber-spies, Dracula
11/5/2012 - Neil Heywood, the Briton killed by Bo Xilai’s wife, was passing information to MI6
11/5/2012 - China “is hacking” US military computers and defence contractors, Congress report says
11/5/2012 - More bad news for Intel: One in four computers is now a tablet, Apple could move to different chips
11/5/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Americans vote, Greeks strike, France competes, Indians spot UFOs
11/5/2012 - Tesla shares rise 8% despite loss, as company ramps up production
11/5/2012 - This election will be the food movement’s moment of truth, says Michael Pollan
11/5/2012 - Goldman Sachs partner ranks thin, as boring banking grows
11/5/2012 - Why is American Express paying people to play Halo 4?
11/5/2012 - Should science majors pay less for college than art majors?
11/5/2012 - Electoral math: Six sets of numbers that will decide who wins the White House in 2012
11/5/2012 - Why China’s central planners should envy Indonesia’s economy
11/5/2012 - The last Gallup tracking poll of the US election: Romney 49%, Obama 48% among likely voters
11/5/2012 - Not even Hurricane Sandy’s damage in Cuba will move Raúl Castro toward reform
11/5/2012 - How Sandy undermined the case for energy independence
11/5/2012 - How paper currency is holding the US recovery back
11/5/2012 - French government leaders distance selves from economic report they commissioned because they don’t like what it says
11/5/2012 - About that gold stored in flood-prone Lower Manhattan
11/5/2012 - Attention execs: Even post-Sandy, dealing with crisis is your business
11/5/2012 - Booksellers resist Amazon’s latest disruption
11/5/2012 - Stiglitz on why ‘American exceptionalism’ is tough sell globally
11/5/2012 - HSBC could face over $1.5 billion in US fines and criminal charges over money laundering
11/5/2012 - Toyota predicts better profits for 2012 but “uncertainty” over China-Japan islands spat weighs on sales
11/5/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Obama’s chances, HSBC fines, Sharp bailout, Lego
11/5/2012 - Obama has been at least twice as good for the creation of American millionaires as George W. Bush
11/5/2012 - Ireland bests UK in service sector growth
11/5/2012 - The plain truth about top marginal tax rates that shocked US Senators
11/5/2012 - Will Greece’s parliament pass a controversial austerity plan this week? Yes, but not without a lot of pain
11/5/2012 - Money: Americans want it again
11/5/2012 - Watch out, ratings agencies. You may be about to be hit by a tidal wave of derivatives claims
11/4/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—Wrath of Sandy, Sharp bailout, Strictness, Lego
11/4/2012 - Starbucks attempts to conquer India’s next frontier: Coffee
11/4/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Asia Edition – Ctrip.com, Apple, Lego
11/4/2012 - New York Marathon’s cancellation deals a unique blow to Kenyans
11/4/2012 - The FTC really wants to sue Google, and now it may have found the charges that stick
11/4/2012 - More data add to signs of a Chinese economic rebound
11/4/2012 - China formally expels disgraced politician Bo Xilai from party
11/4/2012 - How does a company get the world’s smartest data scientists to moonlight for free? By turning problems into contests
11/3/2012 - A dummy’s guide to the gas crisis left by Sandy: How to fuel up and save what you’ve got
11/3/2012 - Less than 4% of students in an MIT online course passed the final. Why investors in education are throwing their money away
11/2/2012 - Meet the man the oil industry goes to for a voice of gravitas in the US election
11/2/2012 - With 9/11 as a guide, here are five ways to consider Hurricane Sandy’s economic impact
11/2/2012 - Watch the first oil tankers enter New York Harbor after it reopens
11/2/2012 - How to become a CEO: first learn how to fire people and close things
11/2/2012 - 99% of Mitt Romney’s ads last week were negative
11/2/2012 - This week in photos: Hurricane Sandy, final days of US campaign, iPad mini launch, and more
11/2/2012 - Photos: Charging stations as power source, meeting place, and the new face of disaster relief
11/2/2012 - The massive earthquake coming to Istanbul will make Sandy seem like nothing
11/2/2012 - Should the US government be bailing out my parents’ flooded basement?
11/2/2012 - Hyundai Motors overstated claims about its cars’ fuel economy
11/2/2012 - Romney’s son seeks investment from America’s “number one geopolitical foe”
11/2/2012 - Meet the most indebted man in the world
11/2/2012 - Wipro’s earnings moved Indian markets. Here’s why the outsourcing giant still has a tough road ahead
11/2/2012 - Victory for a US vulture fund that could make solving the euro crisis even more difficult
11/2/2012 - Lagarde List spawns copycat lists, and a Greek tragedy
11/2/2012 - Jobs report: Analysis via tweets
11/2/2012 - The complete US jobs report in charts and stats
11/2/2012 - The US economy added 171,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate rose to 7.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
11/2/2012 - How to use the jobs report to make any case you want for Obama’s reelection chances
11/2/2012 - These charts suggest Asia might be heading for a new debt crisis
11/2/2012 - Hey hardhats, construction jobs are about to surge in the northeastern US
11/2/2012 - Of course Microsoft is making a smartphone: 3 reasons the new rumor makes sense
11/2/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – US jobs report, Nokia’s new smartphone, Chinese warships
11/2/2012 - China stockpiles enough cotton to last six years
11/2/2012 - RBS reports losses, increases payments to customers for faulty products, and then there’s LIBOR
11/2/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Europe Edition – US jobs report, Bank of England bashing, Chinese warships
11/1/2012 - eBay tries to win over China… again
11/1/2012 - The Kremlin’s new Internet surveillance plan goes live today, and it’s terrifying
11/1/2012 - Dueling American business coalitions squabble over tax hikes in the fiscal cliff
11/1/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Asia Edition – US jobs report, Lumia 920, Barclays’ troubles, 10,000 hours
11/1/2012 - And Quartz’s endorsement in the US presidential election goes to….
11/1/2012 - Brazil’s first black Supreme Court Justice lauded for punishing corruption in “trial of the century”
11/1/2012 - Photos define the African middle class in a way that salary and security guards cannot
11/1/2012 - Hurricane Sandy hit Cuba’s GDP as much as New York City’s
11/1/2012 - Wearable computing will be a $1.5B business by 2014
11/1/2012 - Don’t count on Myanmar’s new reforms to make it the next Asian tiger: Corruption still reigns
11/1/2012 - Apple: the stock market laggard that you own too much of
11/1/2012 - The cities that power the global economy are the ones most at risk of flooding
11/1/2012 - It’s only a matter of time before something else kills our internet
11/1/2012 - German winemaker reaps a 700-year-old monastic legacy
11/1/2012 - China’s manufacturing is improving, but don’t celebrate yet
11/1/2012 - Greek journalist goes on trial instead of corrupt system that landed him there
11/1/2012 - Businessweek’s new cover goes for the jugular on the cause of Hurricane Sandy
11/1/2012 - Five reasons Apple has peaked—for real, this time
11/1/2012 - UK judge orders Apple to grow up and cut snark from Samsung letter
11/1/2012 - China stocks get a lift from manufacturing data
11/1/2012 - Barclays accused of manipulating markets—again. Also, bribery. Anything else?
11/1/2012 - Quartz Daily Brief – Americas Edition – Election, ExxonMobil, Britain’s bungling banks, mistress Monopoly
11/1/2012 - Manufacturing numbers continue to disappoint in Britain and Greece. But good news from Ireland
11/1/2012 - Stuck at home? Here are 12 tips for building a productive virtual office
11/1/2012 - Poor profits for oil giant Shell
11/1/2012 - Another British bank posts a bad quarter for treating customers badly