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2013 December
12/31/2013 - Why China is building a massive solar power plant in the middle of nowhere
12/31/2013 - Chromebooks outsold Macbooks to US commercial buyers by a factor of five in 2013
12/31/2013 - Nearly 50,000 migrants have died in Mexico on the way to the US since 2007
12/31/2013 - US housing has been a game changer this year
12/31/2013 - A Harvard professor reveals how to make New Year’s resolutions that you can actually keep
12/31/2013 - Netflix might finally do something about freeloaders: cut prices for everyone else
12/31/2013 - Here it is: the worst investment of 2013
12/31/2013 - One of the most valuable banknotes in the world is about to vanish
12/31/2013 - Google and Audi’s new connected cars are really just about selling you apps
12/31/2013 - 217 years of homicide in New York
12/31/2013 - The New York Times’ gravity-defying 2013
12/31/2013 - Tonight’s Uber surge pricing nightmare doesn’t have to happen next New Year’s Eve
12/31/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—China IPOs, US home sales, Zappos holacracy, stoned dolphins
12/31/2013 - Who is the self-proclaimed prophet who launched a coup on Congolese breakfast TV?
12/31/2013 - Kim Jong-un’s $300 million ski resort boondoggle is really, truly, almost finished
12/31/2013 - Why the ECB should stress test bank employees, not just banks
12/31/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—China oks IPOs, US domestic drones, Sochi security, Zappos holacracy
12/30/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Drone testing, Sochi security, against specialization, Zappos holacracy
12/30/2013 - The Nikkei just had its best year since Nixon was in the White House
12/30/2013 - Social media is not a zero-sum game and Facebook isn’t going anywhere so get used to it
12/30/2013 - Why the US isn’t the world leader in speedy internet access
12/30/2013 - Gold just had its worst year since 1981
12/30/2013 - Sharks are tweeting their location—to save their lives, not yours
12/30/2013 - Why $200 million won’t make Crocs popular again
12/30/2013 - Uruguay may have started a marijuana legalization storm in Latin America
12/30/2013 - Good news: Japan is finally defeating deflation. Bad news: Japan is finally defeating deflation
12/30/2013 - This is how many people in your country use Facebook
12/30/2013 - Will others benefit from your new year’s resolution—or will it only be you?
12/30/2013 - Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy
12/30/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bombings in Russia, China’s soaring debt, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/30/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Bombings in Russia, China’s soaring debt, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/30/2013 - Delhi’s new corruption-fighting chief minister tweets in sick with Delhi belly
12/30/2013 - Two bombs in Volgograd, Russia, kill 32 and leave dozens injured
12/30/2013 - After decades of ashtray diplomacy, Chinese officials are banned from smoking
12/30/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Suicide bombing in Russia, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/30/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Suicide bombing in Russia, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/29/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Suicide bombing in Russia, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/29/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief — Suicide bombing in Russia, inflation in Japan, “sad characters” in Asia
12/29/2013 - New data show where Facebook has (and hasn’t) made the shift to mobile
12/29/2013 - E-cigarette advertising takes a page from old-school cigarette ads
12/29/2013 - “Understanding the future is only a question of timing”
12/29/2013 - Saving the art of conversation in the age of the smartphone
12/29/2013 - Meet the workspace designer for Dropbox, Instagram, and other internet startups
12/29/2013 - Asia picks its words of the year, and they are a bunch of sad characters
12/28/2013 - The most popular drugs bought with bitcoin on Silk Road
12/28/2013 - How far you could get from New York in one day—back in the day
12/28/2013 - Cuba will allow athletes to play overseas—but Major League Baseball is still off limits
12/28/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Peering into the future and the year’s best writing
12/28/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Peering into the future and the year’s best writing
12/27/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Peering into the future and the year’s best writing
12/27/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Peering into the future and the year’s best writing
12/27/2013 - How South Dakota became the “Bermuda of the prairie”
12/27/2013 - California faces a catastrophic drought next year
12/27/2013 - The two big men behind the huge corruption row in Turkey
12/27/2013 - Target’s Christmas nightmare just got worse: Customer PINs were stolen, too
12/27/2013 - Sherlock Holmes joins Count Dracula, Robin Hood, and Peter Pan in the US public domain
12/27/2013 - US interest rates are beginning to rise, and that’s good
12/27/2013 - An enormous ice castle worthy of China’s biggest bank
12/27/2013 - Uh-oh: Investors are fleeing Turkey’s currency
12/27/2013 - ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ were the most pirated TV shows of 2013
12/27/2013 - Jewelry was the standout in America’s holiday shopping season
12/27/2013 - The next revolution in cargo will be the container ship drone
12/27/2013 - Somali piracy was reduced to zero this year
12/27/2013 - We’d all be better off with our health records on Facebook
12/27/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Abe’s economic boost, Okinawa base move approved, GM China recall, ramen cakes
12/27/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Abe’s economic boost, Okinawa base move approved, GM China recall, ramen cakes
12/27/2013 - Could US financial reform help fix China’s banking system?
12/27/2013 - LG thinks it’s time you started chatting with your appliances—via Line
12/27/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Abe’s economic boost, Thai army meets, Turkey scandal deepens, ramen cakes
12/26/2013 - The most hated man in India is exactly who the country needs right now
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Another Abe reckoning, a wasted year for tech, $5 flight glitch, fake knee surgery fix
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Another Abe reckoning, a wasted year for tech, $5 flight glitch, fake knee surgery fix
12/26/2013 - Amazon’s best-selling holiday items reveal the American id
12/26/2013 - The most popular lightbulb in America will be banned on Jan. 1
12/26/2013 - Twitter is now worth almost as much as Yahoo
12/26/2013 - 3M has a plan to keep the Post-it note relevant to young smartphone addicts
12/26/2013 - In Los Angeles, walking illegally is more than twice as expensive as parking illegally
12/26/2013 - Europeans are now too cheap for Champagne
12/26/2013 - Even in the cloud, Japan and China find themselves at odds
12/26/2013 - A new suspect in bee deaths: the US government
12/26/2013 - A step-by-step guide to profiting off a 3-cent hike on US postage stamps
12/26/2013 - 2013 was a lost year for tech
12/26/2013 - The winners and losers of Shinzo Abe’s inflammatory visit to a Japanese WWII shrine
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Abe’s war shrine visit, Softbank’s T-Mobile talks, Thai protests, fake knee surgeries
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Abe’s war shrine visit, Softbank’s T-Mobile talks, Thai protests, fake knee surgeries
12/26/2013 - Google sincerely thinks that Google+ is the future of Google
12/26/2013 - Shoeboxes of cash, Iranian gold, and the other allegations threatening to bring down Turkey’s government
12/26/2013 - How Quartz’s geopolitical forecasting algorithm fared in 2013
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Softbank’s T-Mobile talks, Abe visits war shrine, Thai protests, sexist spirits
12/26/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Softbank’s T-Mobile talks, Abe visits war shrine, Thai protests, sexist spirits
12/25/2013 - How to return that awful sweater from Mom—without asking her for the receipt
12/25/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai protests, Turkish corruption, Snowden’s message, Mao’s birthday
12/25/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Thai protests, Turkish corruption, Snowden’s message, Mao’s birthday
12/25/2013 - Is frozen natural gas the future of energy?
12/25/2013 - What management consultants might say to the Pope
12/24/2013 - The ridiculous logistics involved in getting you your Christmas presents on time
12/24/2013 - What to binge-watch over the holidays—and how long it will take
12/24/2013 - These headphones beam images directly into your eyes
12/24/2013 - 2013: The year in heists and capers
12/24/2013 - Why Christmas is an agonizing time for app developers
12/24/2013 - The reality of Rudolph: Reindeer are in short supply, high demand
12/24/2013 - There is conflicting evidence about Santa Claus’s travel schedule this Christmas
12/24/2013 - French consumers spend only when they’re cold
12/24/2013 - Three families hold the keys to American cable consolidation
12/24/2013 - The advertising industry has turned its greatest asset, people, into a commodity
12/24/2013 - Facebook’s astonishing 2013 resurgence, explained in charts
12/24/2013 - An Indonesian politician couldn’t get on a full flight, so he closed the airport
12/24/2013 - That baby born in Bethlehem should inspire society to keep redeeming itself
12/24/2013 - We’ll finally see that the Fed has done nothing to help Main Street
12/24/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Snowden speaks, Christmas Eve rush, bloody M&A, ancient tsunamis
12/24/2013 - North Korea’s violent leadership purge may have been caused by a feud over shellfish
12/24/2013 - The late Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the AK-47 to be both deadly and user-friendly
12/24/2013 - The FBI considered “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be Communist propaganda
12/24/2013 - Vladimir Putin extracted two crucial promises before releasing a former oil baron from prison
12/24/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Christmas Eve rush, bloody M&A, Dorsey at Disney, 30,000 virgin births
12/24/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Christmas Eve rush, bloody M&A, Dorsey at Disney, 30,000 virgin births
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Christmas Eve rush, Dorsey at Disney, Italy’s Google tax, virgin births
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Christmas Eve rush, Dorsey at Disney, Italy’s Google tax, virgin births
12/23/2013 - Why Disney just added Jack Dorsey to its board
12/23/2013 - Virgin births, James Bond’s liver and projectiles in the operating room: A medical journal like no other
12/23/2013 - How Russia’s once-richest man hid his last $170 million from Vladimir Putin
12/23/2013 - Six reasons your next phone won’t have to run software from Apple or Google
12/23/2013 - If the US solar business is booming, why are jobs in it declining?
12/23/2013 - Get ready for really expensive almonds
12/23/2013 - This donkey meat is actually fox meat, claims irate Chinese Wal-Mart customer
12/23/2013 - A new Samsung ad portrays a dystopian future in which only Galaxy Gear owners have sex
12/23/2013 - Why we shouldn’t cheer on this year’s strong holiday spending
12/23/2013 - The United States’ dangerous IMF schizophrenia
12/23/2013 - The most popular Quartz stories of 2013
12/23/2013 - Two very good reasons investors are fleeing Turkey
12/23/2013 - This is the lethal electronic kit that changed Colombia’s history
12/23/2013 - China is so worried about its cash crunch that it banned the term
12/23/2013 - Our favorite web design of 2013
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Apple’s China iPhone deal, Khodorkovsky’s exile, Rodman leaves Pyongyang, Japanese slang
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Apple’s China iPhone deal, Khodorkovsky’s exile, Rodman leaves Pyongyang, Japanese slang
12/23/2013 - Christmas has become huge in Asia—never mind the whole birth of Christ thing
12/23/2013 - Dennis Rodman didn’t meet Kim Jong-un on this trip to North Korea, but here’s what he did do
12/23/2013 - US authorities are investigating “human trafficking” charges in the Indian diplomat case
12/23/2013 - Why Apple’s China deal could disappoint
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Apple’s China iPhone deal, Khodorkovsky’s exile, difficult UK travel, Japanese slang
12/23/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Apple’s China iPhone deal, Khodorkovsky’s exile, difficult UK travel, Japanese slang
12/22/2013 - Alibaba’s online investment account is becoming a serious threat to Chinese banks
12/22/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Facebook stock, Dubai rentals, Hollywood glut, Japanese slang
12/22/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Facebook stock, Dubai rentals, Hollywood glut, Japanese slang
12/22/2013 - Eleven reasons why bicycling in the US is exceptionally dangerous
12/22/2013 - Hollywood has put too many films under the Christmas tree
12/22/2013 - US airlines raked in $4.7 billion in baggage and change fees during the first nine months of 2013
12/22/2013 - The US now watches the majority of its online porn on mobile phones
12/22/2013 - Talented and gifted classes don’t provide much extra benefit, say researchers
12/22/2013 - The one airport hack that will get you home faster
12/21/2013 - Professional soccer clubs are great entertainment—and terrible investments
12/21/2013 - The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
12/21/2013 - How Nelson Mandela became Madiba
12/21/2013 - Legal pot in Uruguay is great news for Paraguay’s drug lords
12/21/2013 - The complete guide to setting goals
12/21/2013 - The American pika could survive climate change by eating its own feces
12/21/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Fed taper, battery feuds, sticker commerce, lunar sculpture
12/21/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Fed taper, battery feuds, sticker commerce, lunar sculpture
12/20/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Fed taper, battery feuds, sticker commerce, lunar sculpture
12/20/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Fed taper, battery feuds, sticker commerce, lunar sculpture
12/20/2013 - Beyonce doesn’t need Target, and Target doesn’t need Beyonce’s CD
12/20/2013 - Only one in four Americans who are happy at work would retire if they won the lottery
12/20/2013 - New evidence the MBA bubble is about to pop
12/20/2013 - A list of the business leaders, US allies and charities the NSA has been spying on
12/20/2013 - Half of all chicken in US stores is laced with antibiotic-resistant bacteria—and “organic” chicken is no better
12/20/2013 - What looks like a humiliation for Vladimir Putin may actually be convenient for him
12/20/2013 - 5 resolutions for marketers
12/20/2013 - News Corp will use Storyful for citizen journalism… and cat videos
12/20/2013 - Gold was by far one of the worst trades of 2013
12/20/2013 - China is the top foreign investor in US firms critical to national security
12/20/2013 - The US economy grew even more in the third quarter than we thought
12/20/2013 - Why a startup just published all of its employees’ salaries for the world to see
12/20/2013 - BlackBerry just lost more money in one quarter than it made in the past four years
12/20/2013 - S&P just cut the credit rating of an entire continent
12/20/2013 - China’s financial system is in crisis mode again, and the central bank’s billions aren’t helping
12/20/2013 - Relive the first tech bubble with Monopoly: The .com Edition
12/20/2013 - Norway is starting to have more electric cars than it can handle
12/20/2013 - Spike Lee’s “Oldboy”: Revenge is a dish best served Korean
12/20/2013 - How the $5 billion bankruptcy of a Chinese coal company’s could trigger financial panic
12/20/2013 - The complete guide to corporate gifts for clients
12/20/2013 - The physics that killed GM’s latest hopes for a 200-mile electric car
12/20/2013 - The only way to stop climate change now may be revolution
12/20/2013 - Tibet, once famous for blue skies, had some of the worst air in China today
12/20/2013 - The next big thing in surfing is artificial waves you can ride anywhere, any time
12/20/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Obamacare tweaked, EU downgraded, China crunched, blogs RIP
12/20/2013 - North Korea is prepared to unleash destruction without notice—except by fax machine
12/20/2013 - The US-India row isn’t really over diplomatic immunity—it’s about human trafficking
12/20/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—BlackBerry earnings, London theater collapse, Overstock’s bitcoin bid, pirated diapers
12/20/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—BlackBerry earnings, London theater collapse, Overstock’s bitcoin bid, pirated diapers
12/19/2013 - Possibly the only person at Microsoft who made money off the Nook was just busted for insider trading
12/19/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—BlackBerry’s earnings, Target’s data breach, the Envia story, pirate diapers
12/19/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—BlackBerry’s earnings, Target’s data breach, the Envia story, pirate diapers
12/19/2013 - China puts out yet another credit market fire with more liquidity
12/19/2013 - The world’s least corrupt country strangely appears to be quite bad at fighting dirty money
12/19/2013 - Japanese diaper makers are fighting a new competitor: Chinese diaper pirates
12/19/2013 - 10 of the fastest-growing, best-paying jobs in the US
12/19/2013 - What many economists don’t understand about Christmas
12/19/2013 - Here’s what every major bank had to say about the Fed’s decision to taper
12/19/2013 - The EU just came one step closer to mandating a common charger for cell phones
12/19/2013 - The complete guide to the standing office
12/19/2013 - Hershey just made a $500 million bet on China’s chocolate craving
12/19/2013 - China’s obsession with rhino horns is sending South African rhino deaths through the roof
12/19/2013 - Meet Levison Wood, who’s spending the next 12 months walking the Nile
12/19/2013 - Ireland’s GDP grows, Irish pay packets shrink
12/19/2013 - This man is attempting to be the first to walk the Nile
12/19/2013 - Follow the man who’s currently walking the length of the Nile
12/19/2013 - This t-shirt will tell your phone how healthy you are
12/19/2013 - Though long-distance calls are cheap, people still mostly call their neighbors
12/19/2013 - The complete guide to negotiating a raise
12/19/2013 - Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf
12/19/2013 - 2014 will be the year of the secret IPO
12/19/2013 - The mysterious story of the battery startup that promised GM a 200-mile electric car
12/19/2013 - Make no mistake about the taper—the Fed wishes it could stimulate the economy more
12/19/2013 - 2013 will be remembered as the year that deadly, suffocating smog consumed China
12/19/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Putin’s wacky Q&A, Nike earnings, Rodman in North Korea, DIY arms traffickers
12/19/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Putin’s wacky Q&A, Nike earnings, Rodman in North Korea, DIY arms traffickers
12/19/2013 - China tries to promote “human-centered” urbanization with a policy ode to nature
12/19/2013 - The US and China may work together in space now that this guy is retiring
12/19/2013 - US attorney Preet Bharara comes out swinging to defend his arrest of an Indian diplomat
12/19/2013 - That island that erupted off Japan’s coast last month isn’t just sitting there—it’s growing
12/19/2013 - China may try to solve its smog problem by pumping frigid liquid nitrogen into the air
12/19/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Fed finally tapers, Putin’s Q&A bonanza, proposed NSA curbs, textopornographie
12/18/2013 - Brazil is snubbing Boeing in a jet deal after NSA spying soured relations
12/18/2013 - What the markets make of Ukraine’s $15 billion-Russian rescue, in three charts
12/18/2013 - The taper is here, and the stock market seems to love it
12/18/2013 - The man who invented the karaoke machine never patented it
12/18/2013 - FedEx thinks Amazon’s drone plans are hilarious
12/18/2013 - Here’s where every major bank stands on whether the Fed will taper
12/18/2013 - One chart that shows how you pay for free apps with your privacy
12/18/2013 - Uber economics: Sometimes the invisible hand slaps you in the face
12/18/2013 - Chinese sewage is feeding superbugs that no antibiotic can kill
12/18/2013 - 76 years after the Hindenburg, can airships make an industrial comeback?
12/18/2013 - Wow. US housing is roaring back to life
12/18/2013 - The Bank of England’s attempt to make things clearer to the markets seems to have confused them instead
12/18/2013 - This company is betting millions that you’ll use cartoon bears instead of English
12/18/2013 - Between a quarter and a third of everything on the web is copied from somewhere else
12/18/2013 - Sesame Street is using Cookie Monster to teach kids to become executives
12/18/2013 - Tablets make it impossible for kids to get lost in a story
12/18/2013 - Experts agree: You can stop wasting your money on multivitamins
12/18/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Fed decision, UK unemployment, India’s interest rates, elephant origami
12/18/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Fed decision, UK unemployment, India’s interest rates, elephant origami
12/18/2013 - Uzbekistan’s cotton success formula: Make citizens work the fields for free
12/18/2013 - Facebook’s big data glimpse at human migration and the growth of mega-cities
12/18/2013 - Hollywood’s theme park equation: We’ve got the movies, Asia has the gamblers
12/18/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Fed decision, UK unemployment, Chinese home prices, tiny lunar sculptures
12/18/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Fed decision, UK unemployment, Chinese home prices, tiny lunar sculptures
12/17/2013 - Social buzz was right: game over for ender, hot times for hunger games
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Fed decision, Russia-Ukraine deal, bitcoin mining, Antarctic diamonds
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Fed decision, Russia-Ukraine deal, bitcoin mining, Antarctic diamonds
12/17/2013 - Law school enrollment is collapsing
12/17/2013 - If you were born after 1960, a comfortable retirement will rely on inheritance
12/17/2013 - Steve Wozniak just backed a DIY computer on Kickstarter—and so have 12,000 others
12/17/2013 - If you want a tablet, just buy Google’s Nexus 7 already
12/17/2013 - Rents are really starting to go up in the US
12/17/2013 - Jamie Dimon’s holiday card looks like a Ralph Lauren advertisement
12/17/2013 - The time has come to unleash the true power of the Olive Garden
12/17/2013 - China’s growing taste for chocolate is making it more expensive for everyone
12/17/2013 - The real magic of Christmas: How to string lights without a single extension cord
12/17/2013 - This algorithm can tell if you’re a hipster so the internet can sell you a plaid shirt
12/17/2013 - Here’s the one thing someone needs to invent before the internet of things can take off
12/17/2013 - New York’s arrest of an Indian diplomat has triggered a full-scale retaliation in India
12/17/2013 - 26 charts that surprised me in 2013
12/17/2013 - Why China had to crack down on bitcoin—and may eventually regret it
12/17/2013 - Finland’s short-lived experiment using gingerbread cookies as currency
12/17/2013 - Facebook thinks it’s a good idea to clog your newsfeed with auto-playing video ads
12/17/2013 - Put down the Xbox and play these thrilling games created by central bankers
12/17/2013 - 70% of people would be willing to have a smart toilet share their personal data
12/17/2013 - Why you should move all your meetings to Jan. 7
12/17/2013 - JP Morgan plays Scrooge, shutting down customer accounts on Christmas
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Merkel’s third term, UK inflation, Facebook video ads, video game visas
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas brief—Merkel’s third term, UK inflation, Facebook video ads, video game visas
12/17/2013 - Venture capital funds are shunning clean tech, but that could mean there are deals to be had
12/17/2013 - Gather ’round, children, here’s how to heal a wounded economy
12/17/2013 - By reading this page, you are mining bitcoins
12/17/2013 - The alarming rise of Adderall in two charts
12/17/2013 - Something is turning huge numbers of Pacific starfish into zombified body parts
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Merkel’s third term, NSA surveillance ruling, Boeing’s buyback, Neanderthal burials
12/17/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Merkel’s third term, NSA surveillance ruling, Boeing’s buyback, Neanderthal burials
12/16/2013 - The most victorious woman in Germany right now isn’t Angela Merkel
12/16/2013 - Narendra Modi’s personality cult is now available to download on your smartphone
12/16/2013 - This bizarre denim and tutu combination made Goldman Sachs think twice about Urban Outfitters
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Merkel’s third term, Mexico’s energy reform, Moncler’s great day, materialism
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Merkel’s third term, Mexico’s energy reform, Moncler’s great day, materialism
12/16/2013 - 3 critical factors that will help tech companies be successful in Mexico
12/16/2013 - 3 critical factors that will help tech companies be successful in Mexico
12/16/2013 - These are the places in the US where people still don’t have smartphones
12/16/2013 - Investing a day late every day would have returned 19.6% in 2013
12/16/2013 - Yes, you can haggle at your favorite retailers—and you’re getting ripped off if you don’t
12/16/2013 - A greener China could put $45 billion of Australian coal projects in the red
12/16/2013 - Amazon’s best-selling book every year since 1995
12/16/2013 - The US economy may never be the same after the Great Recession
12/16/2013 - The best-selling book on Amazon this year was written by…Gallup?
12/16/2013 - One way to get a US visa: Be really, really good at Starcraft
12/16/2013 - China may actually be the most materialistic country in the world
12/16/2013 - 12 business books you will need to read in 2014
12/16/2013 - Why 2014 could be a rough year for the US stock market, and it has nothing to do with the taper
12/16/2013 - Why a 7.5% growth target next year would hurt China’s economy
12/16/2013 - One year ago today, a young woman changed the course of India’s history
12/16/2013 - Five signs that “animal spirits” are finally starting to stir in Europe’s capital markets
12/16/2013 - What the world can learn from Singapore about dealing with “water stress”
12/16/2013 - What does it mean to be a dad? China’s most popular reality show has the whole country asking that question
12/16/2013 - How a T-Mobile-Sprint tie-up could shake up US telecoms
12/16/2013 - The next battleground for e-commerce is Indonesia
12/16/2013 - Why planes are taking over global trade
12/16/2013 - How you could have turned $1,000 into billions of dollars by perfectly trading the S&P 500 this year
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Germany outpaces France, Bachelet’s Chile victory, Jade Rabbit’s Moon pics, musical booze shout-outs
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Germany outpaces France, Bachelet’s Chile victory, Jade Rabbit’s Moon pics, musical booze shout-outs
12/16/2013 - A reviled Chinese baby formula company is rebranding with organic noodles
12/16/2013 - Jakarta’s crackdown on freelance traffic cops won’t solve its apocalyptic gridlock
12/16/2013 - Krispy Kreme goes egg-free to cash in on India’s fast-food boom
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bachelet’s victory, Jade Rabbit’s first Moon pics, Microsoft’s cloud vision, thousand-year graveyards
12/16/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Bachelet’s victory, Jade Rabbit’s first Moon pics, Microsoft’s cloud vision, thousand-year graveyards
12/15/2013 - Before you fire someone, check whether he runs your Twitter account, else this happens
12/15/2013 - Everyone’s talking about Dow Jones’s DJX on Wall Street, but for all the wrong reasons
12/15/2013 - How the “internet of things” will replace the web
12/15/2013 - Disney’s dark new turn: Turning villains into heroes
12/15/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Chile’s vote, Dubai stocks, Microsoft’s vision, volcanic smoke rings
12/15/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Chile’s vote, Dubai stocks, Microsoft’s vision, volcanic smoke rings
12/15/2013 - People are hoarding TV episodes, so they can binge-watch them later
12/15/2013 - Why executive coaching is worth $500 an hour
12/14/2013 - A terrifying vision of our drone-saturated future
12/14/2013 - Fiat’s new turbo-powered Alfa Romeo 4C sports car is leaving Chevy and Porsche an opening
12/14/2013 - Lufthansa airlines convinced 42 Swedes to change their names
12/14/2013 - China is now the third country to successfully “soft land” on the moon
12/14/2013 - A dollar bill lasts four times longer than it used to
12/14/2013 - Bill Gates’s favorite reads of 2013
12/14/2013 - Amazon changes its prices more than 2.5 million times a day
12/14/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela’s memorial, World Cup rigging, GM’s new era, Google’s grand plan
12/14/2013 - UK tabloids are up in arms but it’s impossible to make serious money through spot-fixing
12/14/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela’s memorial, World Cup rigging, GM’s new era, Google’s grand plan
12/13/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela’s memorial, World Cup rigging, GM’s new era, Google’s grand plan
12/13/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela’s memorial, World Cup rigging, GM’s new era, Google’s grand plan
12/13/2013 - “Buy when there’s blood on the streets”—investors in Ukraine are taking the advice literally
12/13/2013 - The future of Microsoft as seen by an insider who could be its next CEO
12/13/2013 - A team of graduate students just 3D-printed a speaker and it works
12/13/2013 - Upstate New York could get its very own multi-billion dollar, 600-acre Chinese city
12/13/2013 - The 2013 US venture capital boom, in charts
12/13/2013 - The science of building the perfect snowman
12/13/2013 - Warren Buffett appears as Walter White from “Breaking Bad” on his Christmas card
12/13/2013 - Here’s what Ireland’s economy looks like as it prepares to exit its bailout this weekend
12/13/2013 - Letter to leaders of the Syrian armed opposition forces—رسالة إلى قيادة المعارضة المسلّحة في سوريا
12/13/2013 - The US Navy is developing technology to make fuel out of seawater
12/13/2013 - The most Instagrammed place of the year is a shopping mall in Bangkok
12/13/2013 - Confession of an Ivy League teaching assistant: Here’s why I inflated grades
12/13/2013 - Most Americans don’t know what bitcoin is, and that’s good news for speculators
12/13/2013 - The euro zone isn’t creating jobs, but at least it’s no longer losing them
12/13/2013 - Emerging markets are ready for more than your run of the mill whiskey
12/13/2013 - It’s official—higher pay attracts better workers
12/13/2013 - The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet will hit a mind-boggling $4 trillion any day now
12/13/2013 - My hunt for the ugliest sweater taught me the real meaning of Christmas
12/13/2013 - How iOS7 is forcing a redesign of Montessori education
12/13/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—US inflation, Bangladesh unrest, Twitter’s backtrack, courtesy coffee pricing
12/13/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas—US inflation, Bangladesh unrest, Twitter’s backtrack, courtesy coffee pricing
12/13/2013 - The genius behind India’s first 3D printer is a 15-year-old high school dropout
12/13/2013 - The biggest M&A fails of 2013
12/13/2013 - China says its $450 million desert expressway will bring peace and riches—but peace looks unlikely
12/13/2013 - Are China’s leaders obsessed with “House of Cards?” They couldn’t possibly comment
12/13/2013 - Barcelona’s goal scorers can’t flash their undershirts—unless they’ve got “Intel Inside”
12/13/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—US budget advances, Kim’s uncle executed, Twitter blocking uproar, courtesy coffee pricing
12/13/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—US budget advances, Kim’s uncle executed, Twitter blocking uproar, courtesy coffee pricing
12/12/2013 - Over 60% of internet traffic doesn’t come from humans
12/12/2013 - America’s debt fever may be breaking
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—US budget deal, bank misdemeanours, Honduras’s new president, carbonated coffee
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—US budget deal, bank misdemeanours, Honduras’s new president, carbonated coffee
12/12/2013 - Why Costco is itching to open stores in one of the world’s worst economies
12/12/2013 - 42% of Americans could switch to electric cars without changing their driving habits
12/12/2013 - The case for a six-hour workday
12/12/2013 - Is RBS Europe’s most accident-prone bank?
12/12/2013 - We perform certain tasks better depending on what clothes we’re wearing
12/12/2013 - Good news: Your bacon might get cheaper next year
12/12/2013 - The rise of a political party for India’s middle class is an economic disaster
12/12/2013 - Five signs your client may be running a Ponzi scheme
12/12/2013 - Neflix’s market crushing 2013, as told through five charts
12/12/2013 - This map shows where the Chinese coal plants that kill 257,000 a year are
12/12/2013 - English really is the language for the global highly-skilled worker—especially if she’s a woman
12/12/2013 - 2014 is the year smartphones hit $20
12/12/2013 - Lululemon’s fat thighs gaffe is really hurting its bottom line
12/12/2013 - The latest gizmo to join the internet of things is your Christmas tree
12/12/2013 - Our favorite charts of 2013
12/12/2013 - Starbucks is secretly letting customers carbonate their coffee
12/12/2013 - Four things online retailers can do to compete with Amazon
12/12/2013 - Why the future of Facebook and Google depend on academia
12/12/2013 - Behold the Christmas Sweater Industrial Complex
12/12/2013 - Everything you need to know about Chinese tech in one 30-minute video
12/12/2013 - Expect to hear more about these 80 foot-deep sinkholes as Florida’s population surges
12/12/2013 - All of a sudden, China is importing vast amounts of photographic film from the US
12/12/2013 - Finally! Is this the beginning of a price war for in flight Wi-Fi?
12/12/2013 - The caffeine-free guide to staying sharp at work
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—JPMorgan’s Madoff settlement, ISS distress, China’s “bad bank” IPO, the holographic universe
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—JPMorgan’s Madoff settlement, ISS distress, China’s “bad bank” IPO, the holographic universe
12/12/2013 - Music won’t make your kids smarter—but those piano lessons could still be worth it
12/12/2013 - Wall Street’s best trades of 2013
12/12/2013 - Who actually uses Google+? Exactly who you’d expect
12/12/2013 - During the World Cup, teams will travel halfway around the world and never leave Brazil
12/12/2013 - Pork belly, cigarette nose plugs, and other useless remedies for Asia’s season of smog
12/12/2013 - Why are the British by far the world’s most enthusiastic online shoppers?
12/12/2013 - The world’s worst greenhouse gas cools off computers and lets mice breathe underwater
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Hilton and Cinda IPOs, central bank decisions, Australia’s gay marriage reversal, the holographic universe
12/12/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hilton and Cinda IPOs, central bank decisions, Australia’s gay marriage reversal, the holographic universe
12/11/2013 - How many months it takes an average worker to earn what the CEO makes in an hour
12/11/2013 - Nearly $1 trillion was smuggled out of developing countries in 2011
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—In-flight calls, Hilton’s IPO, India’s gay sex ban, LinkedIn clichés
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—In-flight calls, Hilton’s IPO, India’s gay sex ban, LinkedIn clichés
12/11/2013 - Miners spend $17 million a day for a shot at $4.4 million of bitcoin
12/11/2013 - HBO doesn’t think Netflix is a competitor. Here are all the reasons that’s wrong
12/11/2013 - Surreal: French politicians are debating whether Paris now resembles the Bronx
12/11/2013 - How to customize your machine with Windows and Mac software
12/11/2013 - This virtual machine will make your business more versatile and secure
12/11/2013 - One chart Starbucks would really like you to see
12/11/2013 - Why your e-commerce website should be more like Sears’s
12/11/2013 - India’s latest ban against gay sex has its origin in a five-century-old British power struggle
12/11/2013 - Twitter shares are soaring, as are bets that they will collapse
12/11/2013 - Japan now spends more on mobile apps than any other country
12/11/2013 - Sriracha gets the cult documentary it deserves. Here’s the trailer
12/11/2013 - Stunning photos of London shrouded in fog
12/11/2013 - How to date online like a social scientist
12/11/2013 - The UK is remarkably optimistic about how long its people will live
12/11/2013 - China’s anti-debt fervor may be fading
12/11/2013 - Two days after its US bailout ended, GM might be about to trigger a shutdown of Australia’s entire car industry
12/11/2013 - Three charts that suggest that “Divergent” could be next year’s “Hunger Games”
12/11/2013 - Parents are buying their kids all the wrong toys
12/11/2013 - The most overused buzzwords on LinkedIn in 2013
12/11/2013 - How to fix Obamacare: Listen to doctors
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—India’s gay sex ban, Ukraine crackdown, Lloyds fine, Ikea protest toy
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s gay sex ban, Ukraine crackdown, Lloyds fine, Ikea protest toy
12/11/2013 - A map of all the countries that contribute to a single jar of Nutella
12/11/2013 - China’s largest funeral provider is trying to make death a luxury event
12/11/2013 - Madagascar is just about the only country still struggling with the bubonic plague
12/11/2013 - “Teflon Thailand” is starting to lose tourists to its political chaos
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—US budget deal, GM’s female CEO, Ukraine crackdown, Uruguay legalizes pot
12/11/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—US budget deal, GM’s female CEO, Ukraine crackdown, Uruguay legalizes pot
12/10/2013 - An Ikea toy wolf is more than just a way to curse out Hong Kong’s chief executive
12/10/2013 - Would the Volcker rule make Jamie Dimon personally responsible for the ‘London whale’?
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Volcker rule, GM’s female boss, Mandela’s memorial service, Madoff’s investment tips
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Volcker rule, GM’s female boss, Mandela’s memorial service, Madoff’s investment tips
12/10/2013 - High-resolution displays for regular eyeglasses could put Google Glass to shame, be available in one year
12/10/2013 - All the rungs on the ladder Mary Barra climbed to become GM’s next CEO
12/10/2013 - Nokia is putting out Samsung’s fires
12/10/2013 - Here are the best nations to buy your way into
12/10/2013 - If you won’t pay to read the New York Times, will you pay to play it?
12/10/2013 - A beautiful new public transit map shows how New York and New Jersey connect for the Super Bowl
12/10/2013 - Uruguay is about to legalize marijuana, and its government will reap the rewards
12/10/2013 - Why it’s better to start your career in a recession
12/10/2013 - Big Dairy wants chocolate milk to be the new post-workout recovery drink
12/10/2013 - What are the most important unanswered questions on Quora?
12/10/2013 - Congrats America, your household finances are finally back to 2007 levels
12/10/2013 - Why Ukraine’s protesters aren’t going to get their way
12/10/2013 - Lululemon’s new CEO won’t have to deal with its eccentric founder as chairman
12/10/2013 - Ukraine is having more trouble keeping cash in the country than protestors off the streets
12/10/2013 - We defy you to guess which city files for the most patents per resident in the world
12/10/2013 - The world’s top Facebook check-in locations include four Disneylands and a red-light district
12/10/2013 - Just say “yes”—the advice that saved my life
12/10/2013 - Xiaomi’s plan for expansion is to invade the two most saturated smartphone markets in the world
12/10/2013 - Livestock companies are competing over who can offer the safest meat in China
12/10/2013 - These smells, colors, and sounds help unleash your creativity at work
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Mandela’s memorial, Volcker vote, Ukraine riots, crazy cold temperatures
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mandela’s memorial, Volcker vote, Ukraine riots, crazy cold temperatures
12/10/2013 - Vladimir Putin’s media takeover illustrates some of Russia’s scariest traits
12/10/2013 - Education through labor persists in China—at least for female sex workers
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Mandela’s memorial, Volcker vote, US exits GM, crazy cold temperatures
12/10/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mandela’s memorial, Volcker vote, US exits GM, crazy cold temperatures
12/9/2013 - The mind-bendingly complex ownership structure behind Chinese internet IPOs
12/9/2013 - Bailing out General Motors cost the US government $11 billion and it was worth every penny
12/9/2013 - Twitter’s first post-IPO month blew Facebook out of the water
12/9/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Volcker vote, game spying, mega-mergers, floppy disks
12/9/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Volcker vote, game spying, mega-mergers, floppy disks
12/9/2013 - Nine charts explaining how Chinese households ended up with $1.6 trillion in toxic corporate debt
12/9/2013 - On the anniversary of the Newtown massacre, Cerberus Capital finds a way to keep selling guns
12/9/2013 - Proof that the US had bad luck in the World Cup draw—and Nigeria had the best
12/9/2013 - The shaving industry is hurting because men think stubble is cool again
12/9/2013 - Ignore India’s bubbling stock market. Its economy is not fixed.
12/9/2013 - The only thing that will stop electronic surveillance is money earned from electronic surveillance
12/9/2013 - The global food supply has a demand problem
12/9/2013 - The size of your latte has everything to do with your status at work
12/9/2013 - Greece has lost more than one-fifth of its pre-crisis economy
12/9/2013 - Buy more, sell less: Germany is starting to rebalance its economy
12/9/2013 - France says that foie gras is good for it
12/9/2013 - This man was just evicted from Beijing’s underground heating system—and there are many more like him
12/9/2013 - China’s e-commerce giant has spent $364 million on old-school logistical know-how
12/9/2013 - Why Disney keeps buying all your favorite childhood icons
12/9/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Unrest in Thailand and Ukraine, tech firms want surveillance limits, North Korea family scandal
12/9/2013 - Americans who say “college isn’t for everyone” never mean their own kids
12/9/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Unrest in Thailand and Ukraine, tech firms want surveillance limits, North Korea family scandal
12/9/2013 - This mythical submerged rock is the latest territorial flashpoint in Asia
12/9/2013 - The five real winners of India’s state election results
12/9/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Unrest in Thailand, Ukraine and Singapore; HSBC UK floatation, North Korea family scandal
12/8/2013 - Thailand’s Democrat Party is not so keen on the whole democracy thing
12/8/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Thailand’s opposition walkout, Greece’s growth, Mandela’s free-market think, The Hobbit’s climate
12/8/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thailand’s opposition walkout, Greece’s growth, Mandela’s free-market think, The Hobbit’s climate
12/8/2013 - Why it’s so hard to give dying patients what they really want
12/8/2013 - “The Hunger Games” is hardly our future—it’s already here
12/7/2013 - Club Med will fight falling profits by moving upmarket, and away from the Mediterranean
12/7/2013 - Qantas will be saved by the government—but it might not be Australia’s
12/7/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela and Ukraine, Korean misery, BlackBerry memories, snark vs smarm
12/7/2013 - Security guards won’t keep India’s ATMs safe—but these tactics might
12/7/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela and Ukraine, Korean misery, BlackBerry memories, snark vs smarm
12/6/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela and Ukraine, Korean misery, BlackBerry memories, snark vs smarm
12/6/2013 - Why the left-leaning Nelson Mandela was such a champion of free markets
12/6/2013 - Singapore has the most expensive beer in Asia
12/6/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela and Ukraine, Korean misery, BlackBerry memories, snark vs smarm
12/6/2013 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Mandela and Ukraine, Korean misery, BlackBerry memories, snark vs smarm
12/6/2013 - Think the taper is coming? Look at this chart and think again
12/6/2013 - And suddenly everyone is talking about the Fed tapering again
12/6/2013 - 23andMe halts health testing until it meets public standards
12/6/2013 - Starting today, your iPhone can pester you to buy whatever you’re standing next to
12/6/2013 - Finally, an app that makes Google Glass seem like a good idea
12/6/2013 - The good news in Washington isn’t limited to the jobs report
12/6/2013 - Today’s air pollution level in Shanghai is insane
12/6/2013 - The complete guide to writing corporate memos
12/6/2013 - Here are the secret memos Twitter and the SEC swapped this summer
12/6/2013 - New Zealand may be the easiest place in the world to start a business
12/6/2013 - Digging deeper into the surprisingly strong US jobs report
12/6/2013 - America’s outer-space spy program has a new mascot: a world-eating octopus
12/6/2013 - The US jobs report for November in two simple charts
12/6/2013 - Will the iPhone help the world’s largest mobile phone carrier get its groove back?
12/6/2013 - Is the yuan going global, or just masking more shady Chinese banking?
12/6/2013 - This company brought cell service to the remotest countries on earth—and then it ran out of places to go
12/6/2013 - The US employment report is due at 8:30am ET. Economists expect 180,000 jobs were added in November.
12/6/2013 - China’s favorite basketball star unveils the Nike Kobe 9 Elite shoe
12/6/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Mourning Mandela, new US job figures, World Cup draw, capturing waste heat
12/6/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mourning Mandela, new US job figures, World Cup draw, capturing waste heat
12/6/2013 - From kimchi to Azerbaijani polo—what is humanity’s “intangible cultural heritage,” anyway?
12/6/2013 - The latest auction of Banksy’s work just fetched $457,000, and the artist won’t get any of it
12/6/2013 - The symbol of Mandela was more powerful than the reality of Mandela
12/6/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Mandela’s death, US job figures, World Cup draw in Brazil, Christmas in a tin
12/6/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mandela’s death, US job figures, World Cup draw in Brazil, Christmas in a tin
12/5/2013 - Fighting Joe Biden vs. bowing David Cameron—a lesson from two China trips
12/5/2013 - A divided South Africa unites to mourn Mandela
12/5/2013 - Here’s what Nelson Mandela really thought of world leaders
12/5/2013 - It took 22 years for a generation to see this picture of Nelson Mandela
12/5/2013 - What Nelson Mandela taught us about leadership
12/5/2013 - Share photos you’ve taken with Nelson Mandela
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Mandela’s death, GM in Europe, China’s bitcoin ban, beneficial nudity
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mandela’s death, GM in Europe, China’s bitcoin ban, beneficial nudity
12/5/2013 - Photos: Nelson Mandela’s story through his encounters with celebrities and leaders
12/5/2013 - Video: A new generation recites Nelson Mandela’s most famous words
12/5/2013 - Nelson Mandela has died but he has not taken our country with him
12/5/2013 - The wisdom of Nelson Mandela: quotes from the most inspiring leader of the 20th century
12/5/2013 - Year-end tax tip: sometimes it’s good to be a loser
12/5/2013 - What do oil companies know about climate change that politicians don’t?
12/5/2013 - How small businesses can make smarter spending decisions
12/5/2013 - How Tesla batteries are powering an energy revolution
12/5/2013 - Economic incentives, not military power, can solve US foreign policy challenges
12/5/2013 - Latin America in six charts: The recession is coming
12/5/2013 - Why Samsung just launched the world’s largest floating vessel
12/5/2013 - Ford is betting that its new Mustang will be a winner in the world market
12/5/2013 - The stock market is losing hope that Alan Mulally will rescue Microsoft
12/5/2013 - NASA taps Silicon Valley space miners to crowdsource asteroid threats
12/5/2013 - The real reason US economic growth isn’t as strong as it looks
12/5/2013 - Look at how Twitter’s board of directors has evolved over time
12/5/2013 - Twitter’s first female director is also the first “old media” executive on the board
12/5/2013 - What small to mid-sized businesses should know about their expenses
12/5/2013 - Twitter’s new board member isn’t the only one who rarely tweets
12/5/2013 - Expense reporting: don’t wait to be asked to fix it
12/5/2013 - What a 241 year-old Dutch credit crisis tells us about market optimism
12/5/2013 - What made this US trade report so different
12/5/2013 - China’s ban on bitcoin doesn’t make a difference—it was banned already
12/5/2013 - Shopping in a digital world: Cyber Monday blows past $2B in online sales
12/5/2013 - Meet the prime minister who outlasted 170 European governments
12/5/2013 - 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—China’s bitcoin banking ban, Euro zone inflation, US GDP, mood sweaters
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s bitcoin banking ban, Euro zone inflation, US GDP, mood sweaters
12/5/2013 - The Quartz holiday gift guide: Playful toys for thoughtful kids
12/5/2013 - Nine-to-fiver or workaholic? Either way, it’s your parents’ fault
12/5/2013 - Anyone who says minimum wage has no effect on employment is wrong
12/5/2013 - Meet the bank that wins only when Iran loses
12/5/2013 - What the newest “Battlefield” video game says about the world’s fears about China
12/5/2013 - After 24 years, China is no longer Japanese manufacturers’ favorite destination
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Euro zone inflation, US GDP growth, Google’s mysterious barge, mood sweaters
12/5/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Euro zone inflation, US GDP growth, Google’s mysterious barge, mood sweaters
12/4/2013 - China has collected $3.1 billion from one-child policy violators so far this year
12/4/2013 - Somewhere near Boston, a garden hose manufacturer is struggling. And the Fed is on it.
12/4/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Big bank penalties, French prostitution, unpaid internships, rap lyrics
12/4/2013 - SpaceX just made rocket launches affordable. Here’s how it could make them downright cheap.
12/4/2013 - Apple’s Tim Cook and his bête noire, Carl Icahn, have one thing in common: They work ridiculous hours
12/4/2013 - The secret behind America’s record exports
12/4/2013 - Cancer is killing northeastern Indians, and suicide is plaguing the southerners
12/4/2013 - The UK is going to rewrite all the rules to allow driverless cars to thrive
12/4/2013 - UBS saved €2.5 billion by sending a fax to Brussels
12/4/2013 - Goldman expects more banks to be like Goldman next year
12/4/2013 - Somewhere in these 950 pages may be the trick to prevent future financial crises
12/4/2013 - A new reversible USB plug is finally on its way
12/4/2013 - Sick Iranians are struggling to get life-saving meds. US legislators plan to make it even harder
12/4/2013 - This company wants to help you escape your terrible corporate job
12/4/2013 - This metric is just as important as countries’ rankings in math and science
12/4/2013 - US exports have reached a record high thanks to all that energy the country is producing
12/4/2013 - China is on a pork-buying rampage—and Britain just sold it $74 million worth of pig semen
12/4/2013 - These are the countries where the Christmas shopping season is an even bigger deal than in the US
12/4/2013 - Joe Biden just told Chinese citizens to “challenge the government”
12/4/2013 - Spain’s unemployment crisis just got slightly less horrific
12/4/2013 - AMC Entertainment’s IPO suggests 3D movies are here to stay, even if consumers are ambivalent
12/4/2013 - Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon
12/4/2013 - Thanks to Detroit’s bankruptcy ruling, state pensions just got a whole lot riskier
12/4/2013 - Investors expecting to get rich quick in Myanmar are kidding themselves
12/4/2013 - H&M has given suppliers a major incentive to actually pay workers more
12/4/2013 - The Quartz holiday gift guide: Booze and other ways to get in the spirit
12/4/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Biden in China, Euribor fines, US jobs, zombie infections
12/4/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Biden in China, Euribor fines, US jobs, zombie infections
12/4/2013 - In Kazakhstan, inequality and polygamy may go hand-in-hand
12/4/2013 - The genius ways Beijing drivers get around the city’s license plate lottery
12/4/2013 - China’s government may be becoming a little less corrupt
12/4/2013 - A deal between Apple and China Mobile could mean 70 million more iPhones sold in China
12/4/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Biden in China, Huawei warning, Detroit’s bankruptcy, zombie infections
12/4/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Biden in China, Huawei warning, Detroit’s bankruptcy, zombie infections
12/3/2013 - India will ask the US government for help in spying on its citizens
12/3/2013 - The most commonly awarded grade at Harvard is an A
12/3/2013 - How small businesses can better manage employee expense reporting
12/3/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—UN drones, Detroit’s bankruptcy, Arafat’s cause of death, zombie infections
12/3/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—UN drones, Detroit’s bankruptcy, Arafat’s cause of death, zombie infections
12/3/2013 - The French get it wrong again: Removing piracy from Google doesn’t do anything
12/3/2013 - Americans are bingeing less on houses and more on cars
12/3/2013 - Korea is the world’s top producer of unhappy school children
12/3/2013 - It’s not just Amazon: UPS and Fedex are working on their own drone delivery systems
12/3/2013 - Smartphones are still a long way from taking over the world
12/3/2013 - The forest where “The Hunger Games” is filmed saw a 31% increase in visits last year
12/3/2013 - More trade is now settled in yuan than in euros. But global dominance is still a ways off
12/3/2013 - How I hacked my US startup visa
12/3/2013 - The wild protests are shrinking Brazil’s economy
12/3/2013 - Britons are trading 1,600 lives a year for cheap electricity
12/3/2013 - Be prepared for some truly crazy last-minute expenses if you go to Brazil for the World Cup
12/3/2013 - How US trade negotiators are secretly changing intellectual-property law
12/3/2013 - China shouldn’t care that 94% of US consumers can’t name a single Chinese brand
12/3/2013 - Standardized tests discriminate against the next Einsteins and Teslas
12/3/2013 - Last year, poachers killed 22,000 African elephants. 2013 is shaping up to be a lot worse
12/3/2013 - An incredibly misleading chart is warning of a 1929-style market crash
12/3/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Apple buys Topsy, Vatican finances, Biden tours Asia, genetic memories
12/3/2013 - The Quartz holiday gift guide: Pro tools for the extremely mobile
12/3/2013 - A world where everything can be binge-watched may soon be upon us
12/3/2013 - Why Uniqlo and H&M are betting on tennis players
12/3/2013 - Why a single human case of bird flu has Hong Kong spooked
12/3/2013 - Cops giving protesters roses does not mean Thailand’s unrest is over
12/3/2013 - How to export BMWs from the US to China for fun and profit (Note: this is possibly illegal)
12/3/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Apple buys Topsy, Vatican finances, Biden tours Asia, genetic memories
12/3/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Apple buys Topsy, Vatican finances, Biden tours Asia, genetic memories
12/2/2013 - Ukraine’s protests show there’s still some magic in the European project
12/2/2013 - Business executives see mobile, social, and cloud solutions as the future of customer strategy
12/2/2013 - The White House—and the reporters who cover it—thought AIDS was a joke in 1982
12/2/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Vatican finances, assorted protests, drone economics, the cost of “12 Days”
12/2/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Vatican finances, assorted protests, drone economics, the cost of “12 Days”
12/2/2013 - Suddenly, India looks like less of a basket case
12/2/2013 - After a terrific year for stocks, Wall Street suggests you buy more stocks
12/2/2013 - Hilton Hotels’ reputation is worth more than its hotels are
12/2/2013 - Are Mexicans sending more money home again or is it just a holiday blip?
12/2/2013 - Gaming companies can’t seem to avoid sexist marketing
12/2/2013 - Online TV viewing shows how traditional broadcasters get “prime time” wrong
12/2/2013 - Australia and China are way ahead of Amazon in the commercial drone race
12/2/2013 - Drone deliveries may be a sideshow to Amazon’s real ambition for the skies
12/2/2013 - More than 1 in 10 US shoppers leave stores within five minutes
12/2/2013 - Europe has little hope for growth as long as its banking system looks like this
12/2/2013 - Shipwrecks are China’s latest approach to claiming disputed territory
12/2/2013 - Lessons on radical innovation from Bell Labs, the grandfather of inventiveness
12/2/2013 - America’s neglect of its railroads could be turning deadly
12/2/2013 - The Windows Phone may be quietly becoming a real competitor to Android
12/2/2013 - The euro zone’s manufacturing data don’t tell quite the story you’d expect
12/2/2013 - David Cameron is trying to repair China’s “hurt feelings” with his new Sina Weibo account
12/2/2013 - The Quartz holiday gift guide: Connect to the internet of things
12/2/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Protests in Bangkok and Kiev, China’s moon mission, New York train derailment, dual internal clocks
12/2/2013 - China’s internet bigshots literally lined up to support its space program
12/2/2013 - Don’t let the SAC case turn into another trial of the 1%
12/2/2013 - There are over 760 companies waiting to flood China’s public markets with IPOs
12/2/2013 - Protesters in Bangkok don DIY gas masks and carry on battles with police
12/2/2013 - Amazon drones won’t replace the mailman or FedEx woman any time soon
12/2/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Protests in Bangkok and Kiev, China’s moon mission, New York train derailment, dual internal clocks
12/2/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Protests in Bangkok and Kiev, China’s moon mission, New York train derailment, dual internal clocks
12/1/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Protests in Bangkok and Kiev, China’s moon mission, Putin’s punctuality, poverty tourism
12/1/2013 - Quartz Daily Brief—Protests in Bangkok and Kiev, China’s moon mission, Putin’s punctuality, poverty tourism
12/1/2013 - Employees don’t like working for creative managers
12/1/2013 - This is one of the best networking tips for introverts
12/1/2013 - Violent demonstrations have Thailand’s prime minister on the run