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2014 February
2/28/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Democracy’s failures, WhatsApp’s power, economic haiku, space rescues
2/28/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Democracy’s failures, WhatsApp’s power, economic haiku, space rescues
2/28/2014 - Putin is using the fog of war to his advantage in Ukraine
2/28/2014 - J. Crew could be sold to Uniqlo’s parent company
2/28/2014 - And the most expensive city in America for a haircut is…
2/28/2014 - Apple TV is Apple’s fastest-growing product
2/28/2014 - Stop leaning in—career capital is what really matters
2/28/2014 - These three management rules helped fix healthcare.gov
2/28/2014 - Mexico scandal is another humbling lesson for Citigroup’s sprawling global bank
2/28/2014 - Nike Air Jordans account for one in every three dollars spent on sneakers on eBay
2/28/2014 - Ugg boot sales soared, thanks to the polar vortex
2/28/2014 - Morgan Stanley banking grunts might get more weekends off
2/28/2014 - Only the Chinese government knows why the yuan is plunging—but the timing is intriguing
2/28/2014 - Meet the $4.25 billion asset manager that took a bath on bitcoin
2/28/2014 - No, one billion people do not watch the Oscars
2/28/2014 - $20 billion and an ousted whistleblower threaten Nigeria’s fragile, carefully crafted success story
2/28/2014 - Watch out, creative class: Robots are coming after your jobs, too
2/28/2014 - Falling government spending weighs on US growth in fourth quarter
2/28/2014 - The wine business is ripe for disruption, and this man is doing it
2/28/2014 - China cracked down on international baby-trafficking but now it has a domestic trafficking problem instead
2/28/2014 - Mitsubishi wants to make the controls of your car work like Google search
2/28/2014 - America’s fastest-growing “craft” beer is made by the world’s biggest brewer
2/28/2014 - The internet of trashcans is here and it’s more awesome than it sounds
2/28/2014 - Americans are doing less of this one thing that will help you get a job
2/28/2014 - Surprise: There’s really no need to conceal your email address from spammers
2/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Yanukovych reappears, euro zone jobs stall, Carnival time, landline lovers
2/28/2014 - Yanukovych reappears, euro zone jobs stall, Carnival time, landline lovers
2/28/2014 - Elon Musk’s massive bet on batteries is riding on two big if’s
2/28/2014 - Many British bosses keep quiet on Scottish independence—but secretly hope it doesn’t happen
2/28/2014 - There are good reasons to buy bitcoin. Too bad they might be contradictory
2/28/2014 - Why British intelligence got an eyeful while spying on Yahoo users
2/28/2014 - China and Taiwan are slowly drawing closer, one shared weather report at a time
2/28/2014 - Putin doesn’t plan to invade Ukraine—but he’s taking steps just in case
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Yanukovych reappears, Japan’s sunny data, euro zone unemployment, landline love
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yanukovych reappears, Japan’s sunny data, euro zone unemployment, landline love
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Yanukovych reappears, Lego’s empire, Versace’s value, internet idiots
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yanukovych reappears, Lego’s empire, Versace’s value, internet idiots
2/27/2014 - An internet company imagines itself as a book
2/27/2014 - Flesh-eating zombies drove AMC Networks to a record quarter
2/27/2014 - Mickey Drexler leads J. Crew by doing the things managers aren’t supposed to
2/27/2014 - The worst thing about China’s education system
2/27/2014 - Diet Coke isn’t saving the soda industry like it was supposed to
2/27/2014 - The west may be approaching peak phablet
2/27/2014 - Dropbox seems to be trying to head off privacy lawsuits as it prepares for an IPO
2/27/2014 - America is the prime target of international cyberattacks
2/27/2014 - Pimco’s parent details the bond-trading giant’s rough year
2/27/2014 - The unlikely battle between Elon Musk and Warren Buffett to sell electric cars in China
2/27/2014 - Landline owners still think their home phones are more important than Facebook
2/27/2014 - Why critics are piling on Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko
2/27/2014 - Generating social impact and a financial return
2/27/2014 - Qantas and its ilk are losing the Asian skies to oil money and penny pinchers
2/27/2014 - The hidden risk in Blackphone’s “secure” communications
2/27/2014 - Why China is still the dumping ground for the world’s electronic refuse
2/27/2014 - What’s good for American corporations isn’t necessarily good for Americans
2/27/2014 - American men can learn the skills they need to be good dads in school
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Crimea parliament seized, Qantas job cuts, orange juice’s decline, 715 new planets
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Crimea parliament seized, Qantas job cuts, orange juice’s decline, 715 new planets
2/27/2014 - The quick fix for online education: Make instructors binge on TED talks
2/27/2014 - Baidu says its buying spree isn’t over
2/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Thai PM probed, Qantas job cuts, orange juice’s decline, 715 new planets
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai PM probed, Qantas job cuts, orange juice’s decline, 715 new planets
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Yingluck’s charges, Uber’s prices, orange juice’s decline, spy phones
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yingluck’s charges, Uber’s prices, orange juice’s decline, spy phones
2/26/2014 - Behold, Tesla’s ambitious plan to build “the gigafactory”
2/26/2014 - This is the biggest thing to happen to reading since paper
2/26/2014 - T-Mobile’s cameo in HBO’s “True Detective” reflects America’s wireless history
2/26/2014 - Fewer banks and higher profits, that’s post-crisis reality in the US
2/26/2014 - Europe’s mobile speeds are lousy, but here’s how they could overtake the US
2/26/2014 - Shoppers decided to avoid Target after its giant data breach
2/26/2014 - Boeing is making a spy phone that self-destructs
2/26/2014 - The new Smithsonian exhibit on Indian-Americans is great—if only it were 1985
2/26/2014 - Bad A/B testing is worse than none at all
2/26/2014 - Rolls-Royce is getting into the business of drone ships in a big way
2/26/2014 - Blame open plan offices for making cold and flu season worse
2/26/2014 - Why instant coffee is so hot in Colombia
2/26/2014 - How to force people to send you emails you’ll actually answer
2/26/2014 - The world’s hottest conductor needs to stop hiding behind children and condemn Venezuela’s crackdown
2/26/2014 - How Facebook will have to radically transform itself in order to justify buying WhatsApp
2/26/2014 - True augmented reality is coming to Google Glass—along with ads
2/26/2014 - J. Crew’s potential IPO says more about capital markets than clothes
2/26/2014 - What Facebook can learn from tech’s one-time acquisition champion
2/26/2014 - Globalization really means countries just trade with their neighbors
2/26/2014 - Can lab-grown meat solve China’s food safety and shortage problems?
2/26/2014 - How America fell out of love with orange juice
2/26/2014 - It’s not just Google that cares less about hiring graduates from top schools
2/26/2014 - The real challenge for women is leaning out
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Credit Suisse grilled, J. Crew IPO, Airbus results, hipster beard transplants
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Credit Suisse grilled, J. Crew IPO, Airbus results, hipster beard transplants
2/26/2014 - The bitcoin industry embraces what it was built to avoid—rules and regulation
2/26/2014 - Press freedom in Hong Kong has hit a violent new low
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Mt. Gox subpoena, Credit Suisse grilled, Argentina-Repsol deal, Ghostbusters’ Reaganite allegory
2/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mt. Gox subpoena, Credit Suisse grilled, Argentina-Repsol deal, Ghostbusters’ Reaganite allegory
2/25/2014 - Phablets to account for 10% of smartphones by 2015
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Mt. Gox offline, Repsol’s reward, Ghostbusters, the power of Tetris
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Mt. Gox offline, Repsol’s reward, Ghostbusters, the power of Tetris
2/25/2014 - T-Mobile’s customers are increasingly creditworthy
2/25/2014 - When bitcoin’s biggest exchange failed, it asked for a bailout from its competitors
2/25/2014 - The worst thing Bill Gross could do to Pimco is retire
2/25/2014 - Plants, not pills, might be the key to lowering your blood pressure
2/25/2014 - Recruiters are so desperate for engineers they’re looking in virtual study lounges
2/25/2014 - There’s a good reason not to ban Google Glass in cars—yet
2/25/2014 - Meet the incredible shrinking bank branch
2/25/2014 - Why Venezuelans are taking to the streets
2/25/2014 - “Got Milk” is dead, because it wasn’t selling milk
2/25/2014 - Will phablets claim fame at Mobile World Congress?
2/25/2014 - US credit card companies are pouncing on fewer gullible college freshmen
2/25/2014 - How to describe every European economy, in 10 words or less
2/25/2014 - Is it wrong to plagiarize from an email?
2/25/2014 - Taco Bell is going to win the morning with its one-handed breakfasts
2/25/2014 - Why you could soon be buying your electricity from Elon Musk
2/25/2014 - Germany is still leaning on its neighbors for growth
2/25/2014 - JPMorgan plans another 2,000 layoffs in mortgage banking
2/25/2014 - The complete guide to eating at your desk
2/25/2014 - After WhatsApp and Viber, buyers are circling around Japan’s messaging app Line
2/25/2014 - The two big winners following Mt. Gox’s demise
2/25/2014 - Robocop is real, and he’s directing traffic in Kinshasa
2/25/2014 - More people around the world have cell phones than ever had land-lines
2/25/2014 - Chinese citizens are asking when China will have a Ukraine-style revolution
2/25/2014 - Ghostbusters, the greatest movie ever made about Republican economic policy
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bitcoin wipeout, Ukraine president search, Japan nuclear power, selfie head lice
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bitcoin wipeout, Ukraine president search, Japan nuclear power, selfie head lice
2/25/2014 - Chinese urbanites are spending millions on anti-pollution masks—and most of them don’t do anything
2/25/2014 - The failure of Mt. Gox could be a mortal wound for bitcoin
2/25/2014 - Why media companies should be focused on digital video in 2014
2/25/2014 - Digital video expected to yield record-high advertising revenue in 2014
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine president search, Europe inflation, Japan nuclear power, selfie head lice
2/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine president search, Europe inflation, Japan nuclear power, selfie head lice
2/24/2014 - India’s emerging market rollercoaster has been a brutal ride for IBM
2/24/2014 - LinkedIn is doing what Facebook, Google, and Twitter can’t: expanding in China
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Ukraine’s future president, Vatican finances, Mark Zuckerberg, grad school
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine’s future president, Vatican finances, Mark Zuckerberg, grad school
2/24/2014 - Why we’re not impressed with Samsung’s latest wearable effort
2/24/2014 - There’s a job contemplating the future of Hershey’s Kisses—a great sign for America
2/24/2014 - The age of $25 smartphones is upon us—and Mark Zuckerberg wants to give them a dial tone
2/24/2014 - Venezuela’s real inflation may be six times the official rate
2/24/2014 - The Irish are apparently happier when they’re miserable
2/24/2014 - Ukraine’s unrest stems from two decades of squandered post-Soviet independence
2/24/2014 - Morgan Stanley signals a new openness to acquisitions
2/24/2014 - Why so many “activist” investors are barraging companies with money-making schemes
2/24/2014 - This app is fueling the uprising in Venezuela
2/24/2014 - Here’s that $200 internet-connected toothbrush no one asked for
2/24/2014 - Coffee isn’t just getting more expensive. It’s likely to start tasting worse, too
2/24/2014 - What if Snowden was played by the Russians all along?
2/24/2014 - Drones are finally driving the U-2 spy plane out of business
2/24/2014 - Putin may have helped to convince Ukrainian leader to go
2/24/2014 - Icahn vs. Andreessen: a new front in the war between Wall Street and Silicon Valley
2/24/2014 - Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates
2/24/2014 - Here it is, the best investment of the year, and you’re already buying a ton of it
2/24/2014 - HSBC can’t shrink its vast banking empire fast enough to satisfy investors
2/24/2014 - American men work from home more than women
2/24/2014 - Turning Japan into a global gambling hotspot may be just the ticket for Abenomics
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine seeks ex-president, HSBC falls short, UK entices Scotland, electrifying birth control
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine seeks ex-president, HSBC falls short, UK entices Scotland, electrifying birth control
2/24/2014 - China’s Sina Weibo considers an IPO, with WhatsApp’s wind in its sails
2/24/2014 - The US won’t spy on Angela Merkel—but everyone around her is fair game
2/24/2014 - Chinese wearable knock-offs are the sincerest form of tech flattery
2/24/2014 - Xi Jinping’s strategy for his Germany trip is to definitely mention the war
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine in the balance, HSBC results, China’s growth, electrifying birth control
2/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine in the balance, HSBC results, China’s growth, electrifying birth control
2/23/2014 - The family that WhatsApps together stays together—even across four continents
2/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Ukraine’s new president, Netflix’s speed deal, G20 goals, digital condoms
2/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine’s new president, Netflix’s speed deal, G20 goals, digital condoms
2/23/2014 - Cheaper lingerie is the upside of France’s economic downturn
2/23/2014 - Will the capture of the world’s most powerful drug trafficker change anything?
2/23/2014 - Map: Where the world’s biggest vodka drinkers are
2/23/2014 - Nostalgia is the emotion of the future, and it runs the internet
2/22/2014 - A world map of where children go hungry
2/22/2014 - How 5G networks may have built-in human intelligence
2/22/2014 - This was the key moment that turned the tide in Ukraine
2/22/2014 - The real reason some nations are more violent than others
2/22/2014 - Here’s the back story of all that secrecy in figure skating
2/22/2014 - Spain is exporting its way out of economic intensive care
2/22/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Ukraine’s democracy, Tesla’s batteries, Mexico’s fracking, WhatsApp’s pricetag
2/22/2014 - The three most powerful people in Italy’s parliament … are not members of parliament
2/22/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Ukraine’s democracy, Tesla’s batteries, Mexico’s fracking, WhatsApp’s pricetag
2/21/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Asia edition—Ukraine’s democracy, Tesla’s batteries, Mexico’s fracking, WhatsApp’s pricetag
2/21/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Ukraine’s democracy, Tesla’s batteries, Mexico’s fracking, WhatsApp’s pricetag
2/21/2014 - Digital video consumption set to explode in 2014
2/21/2014 - The plans for 5G to power the internet of things
2/21/2014 - The CEO of Exxon loves fracking, as long as it doesn’t spoil his view
2/21/2014 - Three theories on why the yuan is weakening
2/21/2014 - The ‘best’ Fed jokes from the worst of the financial crisis
2/21/2014 - China’s giant pile of copper is inflating its credit bubble
2/21/2014 - What the Netherlands’ complete dominance in speed skating says about success
2/21/2014 - Will 5G wireless networks make every internet thing faster and smarter?
2/21/2014 - Ukrainian bonds were cheap for a reason, some investors are now finding out
2/21/2014 - Why young Wall Street bankers are so miserable
2/21/2014 - The main question in Ukraine is how the street will respond
2/21/2014 - The most common mistakes that derail a woman’s career
2/21/2014 - Behind the scenes during the Federal Reserve’s wildest year
2/21/2014 - Still or sparkling water? The world has spoken, and it’s not even close
2/21/2014 - Why Google’s latest acquisition could be good for the whole online ad industry
2/21/2014 - Gucci is selling too much to the wrong people
2/21/2014 - The European banking system still is a mess: RBS edition
2/21/2014 - North and South Korean families reunite to say a final goodbye
2/21/2014 - Why the US has nothing to fear from China’s warnings about the Dalai Lama
2/21/2014 - China is spending a fortune on science—and is getting robbed blind by corrupt scientists
2/21/2014 - The vaporizer that marijuana users will spend $600 on, and the health-conscious pot head who created it
2/21/2014 - Xiaomi’s expansion plan is to sell out fast and keep fans lusting for more
2/21/2014 - Here’s why Intel’s CEO thinks companies like his own go wrong
2/21/2014 - These iconic American chocolate names are probably going to be swallowed up by a giant corporation
2/21/2014 - Think you know which foods have artificial sweeteners? Think again
2/21/2014 - Tesla’s most disruptive product may not be its cars
2/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Uncertainty in Ukraine, G20 finance summit, Xiaomi’s expansion, mile-low club
2/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Uncertainty in Ukraine, G20 finance summit, Xiaomi’s expansion, mile-low club
2/21/2014 - Want to sell luxury handbags to Chinese tourists? Open more stores in Paris
2/21/2014 - Ukraine’s $19-billion question of debt and corruption
2/21/2014 - How CFOs took over the boardroom
2/21/2014 - A Chinese tycoon is close to buying a bygone icon of American capitalism
2/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine sanctions, Wal-Mart goes small, BBVA buys Simple, the mile-low club
2/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine sanctions, Wal-Mart goes small, BBVA buys Simple, the mile-low club
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Ukraine sanctions, Wal-Mart thinks small, marketing nostalgia, WhatsApp
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine sanctions, Wal-Mart thinks small, marketing nostalgia, WhatsApp
2/20/2014 - Are WhatsApp’s 55 employees millionaires now? Not so fast
2/20/2014 - Reinventing finance for the internet age apparently requires a bank from 1857
2/20/2014 - There are billions of people without internet access. What if they get it from space?
2/20/2014 - WhatsApp’s eye-popping price just disrupted Wall Street’s tech pecking order
2/20/2014 - Simple’s users were just valued at 28 times WhatsApp’s, and that doesn’t matter one bit
2/20/2014 - The most important leadership lesson Microsoft’s new CEO learned from Bill Gates
2/20/2014 - Which body parts are we attaching computers to?
2/20/2014 - American shoppers are making a truly giant shift to dollar stores
2/20/2014 - WhatsApp gives Facebook a lock on the planet’s next billion mobile internet users
2/20/2014 - The orbital madness of “Gravity” helped IMAX to a record quarter
2/20/2014 - Facebook’s $19 billion WhatsApp bet explained in two simple charts
2/20/2014 - On Buzzfeed, people are already clicking the share-to-WhatsApp button more than Twitter’s
2/20/2014 - Turns out Twitter is even more politically polarized than you thought
2/20/2014 - Without food stamps, there might be no WhatsApp
2/20/2014 - Why Wal-Mart should support a higher minimum wage
2/20/2014 - The acquisition of WhatsApp is a huge wakeup call to American business
2/20/2014 - Venezuela’s protests are dividing South America, and not just along the usual ideological lines
2/20/2014 - America’s fastest mobile networks are left in the dust by Brazil, Russia, and Mexico
2/20/2014 - The new systemic risk for US banks: Windows XP
2/20/2014 - Health insurance too expensive? Glow lets you crowdfund your employee’s baby
2/20/2014 - Wal-Mart—the king of big-box retail—is now building small convenience stores throughout the US
2/20/2014 - Here’s the list of 34 US cities where Google Fiber wants to bring superfast broadband
2/20/2014 - It’s safe to come out as an introvert now
2/20/2014 - Five charts to explain China’s shadow banking system, and how it could make a slowdown even uglier
2/20/2014 - WeChat is nothing like WhatsApp—and that makes it even more valuable
2/20/2014 - Mexico’s drug cartels are standing in the way of a fracking bonanza
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine truce fails, digesting Facebook-WhatsApp, Peltz vs. PepsiCo, US clown shortage
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ukraine truce fails, digesting Facebook-WhatsApp, Peltz vs. PepsiCo, US clown shortage
2/20/2014 - The Ukraine protests have revolutionized the revolution
2/20/2014 - Here are all of the S&P 500 companies that are worth less than WhatsApp
2/20/2014 - Forget Hot Pockets—how did the US miss 8.7 million pounds of diseased beef in the first place?
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Facebook buys WhatsApp, China manufacturing, Ukraine ceasefire, US clown shortage
2/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Facebook buys WhatsApp, China manufacturing, Ukraine ceasefire, US clown shortage
2/19/2014 - Facebook bought WhatsApp for its global reach—except in the world’s biggest mobile market
2/19/2014 - Arvind Kejriwal is a bigger threat to India’s political system now that’s he’s resigned
2/19/2014 - WhatsApp’s anti-ad philosophy is really a broad new vision for mobile
2/19/2014 - Six quotes explain why WhatsApp’s CEO is now a billionaire and you’re not
2/19/2014 - A hand-written note explains the radical purity driving WhatsApp’s success
2/19/2014 - In one acquisition, Facebook beat out Google to become Silicon Valley’s top dealmaker
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukrainian sanctions, new internet rules, Facebook to buy WhatsApp, US clown shortage
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Ukrainian sanctions, new internet rules, Facebook to buy WhatsApp, US clown shortage
2/19/2014 - Facebook just devoured another potential competitor, and added to its mobile firepower
2/19/2014 - Why LinkedIn might regret opening its publishing platform
2/19/2014 - Tesla is showing the world what a growth company looks like
2/19/2014 - Stop saying US companies aren’t investing. They are
2/19/2014 - Bitcoin could become the go-to currency for digital tipping
2/19/2014 - Here’s the strategy the mobile industry will announce in Barcelona next week
2/19/2014 - The US internet regulator has a new plan to enforce net neutrality
2/19/2014 - China just sold almost $50 billion in US Treasurys… But don’t panic just yet
2/19/2014 - Greece’s economy is no longer tanking thanks to its sun and sand
2/19/2014 - Dizzying photos of Sochi athletes in flight
2/19/2014 - T-Mobile’s rebel CEO just backed down in the face of… Blackberry
2/19/2014 - Here are the latest charts on the state of the British job market
2/19/2014 - Use what hotels know about sleeping to build your own dreamland
2/19/2014 - Why Google is so eager to spend its money on other companies
2/19/2014 - Western business schools are stepping in to fill China’s manager gap
2/19/2014 - Regulators are watching the new entities collecting America’s mortgage payments
2/19/2014 - The bell curve is a myth
2/19/2014 - Here’s why you shouldn’t buy a US-to-Europe flight more than two months in advance
2/19/2014 - Dodgy dealings in China’s steel trade puts some big banks at risk
2/19/2014 - Why people trust online reviews for dinner but not doctors
2/19/2014 - Get ready for pricier sushi: “Peak salmon” is probably upon us
2/19/2014 - Many American homeowners have probably never heard of the company managing their mortgage
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—UK unemployment surprise, Tesla results, Hong Kong’s maid trade, Hot Pocket recall
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—UK unemployment surprise, Tesla results, Hong Kong’s maid trade, Hot Pocket recall
2/19/2014 - Where this central banker goes, a stronger currency follows
2/19/2014 - The five biggest time wasters for CEOs
2/19/2014 - Ukraine’s leader reaches into the Soviet playbook for a brutal crackdown
2/19/2014 - Herbalife is doing great in China—but maybe not for long
2/19/2014 - How Hong Kong’s “maid trade” is making life worse for domestic workers throughout Asia
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Three violent protests, China vs. Qualcomm, UK jobs, why north is up
2/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Three violent protests, China vs. Qualcomm, UK jobs, why north is up
2/18/2014 - Why it’s a no-brainer for China to play hardball with Qualcomm
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Candy Crush IPO, Coca Cola fizzles, the Three Amigos, secret societies
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Candy Crush IPO, Coca Cola fizzles, the Three Amigos, secret societies
2/18/2014 - The US minimum wage conundrum: More working poor, or fewer poor workers?
2/18/2014 - Samsung’s smartwatch rumored to be Google-free—and it’s a sign of things to come
2/18/2014 - This good news might actually be bad news: Americans are borrowing big again
2/18/2014 - Here’s what you can tell from the names at the top of a research paper
2/18/2014 - Bankers fantasizing about Wall Street heydays are finding it harder to get paid
2/18/2014 - Even in India, the “skin-colored” crayon is peach
2/18/2014 - The pictures Venezuela’s government doesn’t want people to see
2/18/2014 - How your favorite color may predict your perfect perfume
2/18/2014 - Coca Cola’s business is being diluted by water
2/18/2014 - What Russian money sloshing back to Cyprus teaches us about tax havens
2/18/2014 - The financial markets smell like breakfast
2/18/2014 - Obama just made it a lot harder for colleges to exploit cheap labor—aka adjuncts
2/18/2014 - Why the makers of Candy Crush Saga spurned their London home to list in New York instead
2/18/2014 - Carl Icahn just made half a billion dollars thanks to a deal driven by Obamacare
2/18/2014 - This chart suggests America’s addiction to television is not normal
2/18/2014 - Why the disappearance of hotel room keys marks the end of hospitality
2/18/2014 - Spanish banks’ bad debt is worth as much as the entire economy of Singapore—and growing
2/18/2014 - A coming wave of buy-outs may bring sanity to India’s utterly bonkers telecoms market
2/18/2014 - How Wanxiang could revive electric carmaker Fisker
2/18/2014 - Why the stars are aligned for Spotify’s IPO even though it’s losing money
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Actavis-Forest talks, Peugeot’s China bailout, Thai protest gunfight, sea unicorns
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Actavis-Forest talks, Peugeot’s China bailout, Thai protest gunfight, sea unicorns
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Actavis-Forest talks, Peugeot’s China bailout, Thai protest gunfight, sea unicorns
2/18/2014 - China’s new solution to its financial woes is to stop talking to Wall Street
2/18/2014 - Peugeot’s China-funded bailout will create an awkward ménage à trois
2/18/2014 - Despite the occasional splurge on fancy sauce, Japanese consumers aren’t spending enough to save Abenomics
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s capital drainage, Peugeots cede control, Coca-Cola earnings, sea unicorns
2/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—China’s capital drainage, Peugeots cede control, Coca-Cola earnings, sea unicorns
2/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Coca-Cola’s earnings, Italy’s new boss, pointless cease-fires, real unicorns
2/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Coca-Cola’s earnings, Italy’s new boss, pointless cease-fires, real unicorns
2/17/2014 - When nicotine tastes like candy and is sold online, of course kids will buy it
2/17/2014 - How the pilgrimage to Mecca could save the Indonesian economy
2/17/2014 - More and more Europeans are keen on destroying the EU from the inside
2/17/2014 - All apps should be as brilliant as this Israeli sheet music app
2/17/2014 - Investors are losing interest in complex tax-avoidance structures
2/17/2014 - The best cameramen at the Olympics are drones
2/17/2014 - How the internet of things could make media physical again
2/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Peugeot’s decision, riots in Venezuela, Ethiopian hijacking, flappy apps
2/17/2014 - How to read good books for free without breaking the law (sort of)
2/17/2014 - Hijacking a plane is rarely the best way to seek asylum (but it can work)
2/17/2014 - Forget banks—US small businesses are tapping wealthy Chinese investors for loans
2/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Japan’s GDP, riots in Venezuela, Snowden’s odd job, flappy apps
2/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s GDP, riots in Venezuela, Snowden’s odd job, flappy apps
2/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Calm in Ukraine, riots in Venezuela, Snowden’s odd job, Copernicus’s shame
2/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Calm in Ukraine, riots in Venezuela, Snowden’s odd job, Copernicus’s shame
2/15/2014 - The chase for the Higgs boson is about to get bigger, faster, and costlier—but we need it
2/15/2014 - Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties
2/15/2014 - Where Europeans go on vacation, once they leave their country
2/15/2014 - Why paying doctors salaries instead of fees won’t make health care cheaper
2/15/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—The power of TV, the water cost of cannabis, MBA mistakes, MSG vs umami
2/15/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—The power of TV, the water cost of cannabis, MBA mistakes, MSG vs umami
2/14/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—The power of TV, the water cost of cannabis, MBA mistakes, MSG vs umami
2/14/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—The power of TV, the water cost of cannabis, MBA mistakes, MSG vs umami
2/14/2014 - Netflix is outdoing HBO and Showtime with its buzzy original shows
2/14/2014 - Marijuana is now legal for US banks, too
2/14/2014 - Campbell’s thinks Goldfish can save it from soup
2/14/2014 - Looking for income? Here’s one approach to consider
2/14/2014 - Now your phone can help cure cancer
2/14/2014 - Goldman Sachs thinks the best mergers are ones that create oligopolies
2/14/2014 - Photos: What it looks like when a volcano sends ash 55,000 feet into the air
2/14/2014 - Eddie Bauer is apparently still an American icon—in Kazakhstan and North Africa
2/14/2014 - Why America’s brutally cold winter is a boon for boots worn by Australian surfers
2/14/2014 - Next Valentine’s Day, get over your ex with “anti-love biotechnology”
2/14/2014 - There’s one man standing between you and the US wireless oligopoly
2/14/2014 - The euro zone’s long-delayed recovery is finally taking root
2/14/2014 - How Adderall could actually hurt your kid’s grades
2/14/2014 - Confessions of a child psychiatrist: Even I look for parenting advice online
2/14/2014 - Airline seats are now 1.5 inches narrower than they used to be
2/14/2014 - Brits are much more likely to get beaten up at work than they were five years ago
2/14/2014 - Box is getting into “big data” to outdo Dropbox in its IPO
2/14/2014 - There’s room for love even on mobile apps known for hook-ups
2/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Euro zone growth, Volkswagen vote, cable deal doubts, Viking valentines
2/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Euro zone growth, Volkswagen vote, cable deal doubts, Viking valentines
2/14/2014 - Someone’s finally figured out a way to get Real Madrid and Barcelona to lose
2/14/2014 - South Korea is cracking down on mail-order brides, for all the wrong reasons
2/14/2014 - France’s high-speed rail network is worth $2 billion less than it was a year ago
2/14/2014 - Chinese gamblers love France, so this 92-year-old tycoon is building a Versailles casino
2/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Italy’s PM out, Kerry in China, Venezuela protests, Viking valentines
2/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Italy’s PM out, Kerry in China, Venezuela protests, Viking valentines
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Comcast’s TWC coup, Nigeria’s missing oil money, Apple’s ethics, Viking Valentines
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Comcast’s TWC coup, Nigeria’s missing oil money, Apple’s ethics, Viking Valentines
2/13/2014 - Why the Time Warner-Comcast merger isn’t going to happen—at least the way it looks today
2/13/2014 - It’s official: Pepsi has just about had it with soda
2/13/2014 - Get ready: a large portion of China’s $1.8 trillion in trust products may be headed for default this year
2/13/2014 - Ready to break the internet? Netflix’s “House of Cards” premiere is a big test of how video gets to you
2/13/2014 - These adorable robots could someday put construction workers out of a job
2/13/2014 - Let a baseball player’s strikeouts guide your climb up the corporate ladder
2/13/2014 - Playing hard to get makes you more desirable but less likable
2/13/2014 - The Cory Booker guide to dealing with critics
2/13/2014 - Here’s the one-man deal machine driving Comcast’s takeover of Time Warner Cable
2/13/2014 - The future of Whole Foods might not be organic
2/13/2014 - Now’s the time for Time Warner Cable and Comcast to clear their widely despised names
2/13/2014 - Would winning $800 or more turn a liberal into a right-winger?
2/13/2014 - America’s 1% live in relative poverty compared to the .01%
2/13/2014 - Greece’s labor market nightmare keeps getting worse
2/13/2014 - Cable’s billionaire svengali missed out on the industry’s biggest deal
2/13/2014 - Another day, another billion-dollar legal charge for one of the world’s largest banks
2/13/2014 - The US government is helping illegal pot producers destroy California’s water supply
2/13/2014 - Why it’s more demanding to work for a company without a traditional hierarchy
2/13/2014 - Tech companies are way too secretive for their own good
2/13/2014 - Does the US auto-lending boom have further to go?
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Comcast buys TWC, Lenovo soars, Rolls Royce stalls, Earth eats cars
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Comcast buys TWC, Lenovo soars, Rolls Royce stalls, Earth eats cars
2/13/2014 - Twitter’s failure to buy Instagram is looking like a bigger and bigger mistake
2/13/2014 - The Chinese property tycoon who wanted to buy a chunk of Iceland may settle for Norway
2/13/2014 - A Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal would combine two of America’s most-reviled companies
2/13/2014 - Emerging market stocks are so ugly they might just be beautiful
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Comcast’s Time Warner buy, winter weather chaos, Jade Rabbit’s fate, ugly oppression
2/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Comcast’s Time Warner buy, winter weather chaos, Jade Rabbit’s fate, ugly oppression
2/12/2014 - One sentence and six charts to explain why Comcast is buying Time Warner Cable
2/12/2014 - Someday the world will be in love with bankers again, bankers hope
2/12/2014 - India has the lowest workforce participation rate of women among the BRICS
2/12/2014 - The surprising leader in online dating apps across emerging markets
2/12/2014 - Lenovo is betting big on smartphones, but its PC sales are still growing
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Dowdy PepsiCo, upbeat Egypt, the oppressed ugly, a missing monster
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Dowdy PepsiCo, upbeat Egypt, the oppressed ugly, a missing monster
2/12/2014 - Chick-fil-A pivots from homosexuality to hormones
2/12/2014 - Here’s the enormous hangar Google bought to fill with robots
2/12/2014 - Your power is about to go out—here’s how to make your cell phone last until it comes back on
2/12/2014 - It’s official: Apple sells more computers than all Windows PCs combined
2/12/2014 - This is what Paris’ abandoned metro stations could soon look like
2/12/2014 - Why this Morgan Stanley banker could be the poster boy for post-crisis Wall Street
2/12/2014 - Frappuccinos are kids’ gateway drug to caffeine addiction
2/12/2014 - This type of commute makes people more miserable than any other
2/12/2014 - Bing’s Chinese search result ‘glitch’ still reeks of censorship
2/12/2014 - The Bank of England has confirmed that economic forecasting is basically impossible
2/12/2014 - The world’s first crack pipe vending machines are polka-dotted
2/12/2014 - The US wireless industry isn’t “world class” according to the Japanese billionaire who’s invested in it
2/12/2014 - US companies have no idea what to do with all their money
2/12/2014 - Look forward to a 2014 without a US debt crisis
2/12/2014 - The one surprising thing that can make every marriage work: logic
2/12/2014 - Valentine’s Day isn’t enough: Businesses worldwide are pushing “Pre-Valentine’s Day”
2/12/2014 - Americans’ catfish is going to be Made in the US once again and also more expensive
2/12/2014 - Pig diarrhea is coming between you and cheaper bacon
2/12/2014 - What if the purpose of love is to get us out of relationships, not into them?
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Scotland’s bluff, Fisker’s assets, Danone’s double-dip, Kerouac’s trip
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Scotland’s bluff, Fisker’s assets, Danone’s double-dip, Kerouac’s trip
2/12/2014 - The gadgets and apps that guru Nicholas Felton uses to monitor his every move
2/12/2014 - Big Oil’s troubles will lead to the next huge advance in energy technology
2/12/2014 - This Google exec’s success shows how it pays off to invest in talent
2/12/2014 - Now searching for a good home: 46,000 Chinese millionaires who wanted to be Canadian
2/12/2014 - Almost nobody believes China’s new batch of suspiciously awesome trade data
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—BoE recalibrates, China’s suspicious exports, bitcoin under siege, Russia’s strategic snow reserves
2/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—BoE recalibrates, China’s suspicious exports, bitcoin under siege, Russia’s strategic snow reserves
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Korea’s family reunion, Yellenomics explained, Nintendo’s last life, subsidized pizza
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Korea’s family reunion, Yellenomics explained, Nintendo’s last life, subsidized pizza
2/11/2014 - Is Microsoft’s Bing spreading the Chinese government’s censorship around the world?
2/11/2014 - Top Barclays bankers to be on the chopping block in planned layoffs
2/11/2014 - Investment income isn’t as elusive as you think
2/11/2014 - MBAs don’t found most billion dollar startups but they certainly build them
2/11/2014 - New research makes it plain that Ireland is a tax haven
2/11/2014 - The No. 1 thing Indians want in a cream: For it to lighten their skin
2/11/2014 - Russia hoarded 400,000 tons of snow for over a year so it could save the Olympics this week
2/11/2014 - What America’s most controversial clothing CEO can teach us about world trade
2/11/2014 - How to negotiate your salary when everyone knows what you make
2/11/2014 - Why CVS will never actually be a health care marketplace
2/11/2014 - Barbie’s absurd proportions are hurting Mattel’s bottom line
2/11/2014 - A seismic shift in fashion could be upon us: the triumphant return of high-waisted jeans
2/11/2014 - Here’s the chart that explains why Ron Paul is wrong and QE3 really has helped the US economy
2/11/2014 - A Chinese hard landing could knock 1.5 percentage points off global GDP growth
2/11/2014 - Barclays executives saw this chart and decided that its bankers deserved bigger bonuses
2/11/2014 - Yet another controversial book has been suppressed thanks to India’s tough libel laws
2/11/2014 - Here’s why Alibaba is paying more than $1 billion for a mapping company
2/11/2014 - The mistake 90% of Harvard MBAs make during their startup pitch
2/11/2014 - The descending popularity of downhill skiing in America
2/11/2014 - Charts: Where in the world people actually like white chocolate
2/11/2014 - The best ice for Olympic curling is on the verge of being water
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yellen’s grilling, Branson’s offering, Asian budget airlines, Flappy Bird RIP
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Yellen’s grilling, Branson’s offering, Asian budget airlines, Flappy Bird RIP
2/11/2014 - These molecule-sized wires could stop the computer industry from hitting a brick wall
2/11/2014 - British people are seriously stressing out, their doctors say
2/11/2014 - Facebook is analyzing who you’re dating—and it’s probably someone from the same religion
2/11/2014 - Over half of young Indians say they would emigrate to the US if they could
2/11/2014 - McDonald’s partnered with a Vietnamese princeling
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Yellen in hotseat, Icahn’s Apple ceasefire, Virgin Americas IPO, Flappy Bird’s long tail
2/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yellen in hotseat, Icahn’s Apple ceasefire, Virgin Americas IPO, Flappy Bird’s long tail
2/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Icahn’s ceasefire, Syria’s peace talks, the gay NFL, Flappy Bird’s long tail
2/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Icahn’s ceasefire, Syria’s peace talks, the gay NFL, Flappy Bird’s long tail
2/10/2014 - One of Goldman’s rising stars just took another key step towards to the top
2/10/2014 - Why it’s ok to keep laughing at Sochi
2/10/2014 - George Soros’s fund killed it in 2013, but most hedge funds didn’t
2/10/2014 - Shrimp inflation is killing Red Lobster
2/10/2014 - Three things Bill Gates wishes he could have done 20 years ago
2/10/2014 - Demon shrimp and other invaders are costing the UK $3 billion a year
2/10/2014 - Five things that cost more than space exploration
2/10/2014 - To disrupt banking, do you need to own the bank?
2/10/2014 - The London Olympics called in the army to fill empty seats; Sochi is scrambling “volunteers”
2/10/2014 - Why nobody can withdraw bitcoins from one of the currency’s largest exchanges
2/10/2014 - There is more to Switzerland’s anti-immigration vote than meets the eye
2/10/2014 - Why the wild success of Flappy Bird apparently burned its creator
2/10/2014 - Starbucks would be wise to leave “Dumb Starbucks” alone
2/10/2014 - China’s $122 billion boom in shadow banking is happening on phones
2/10/2014 - Barack Obama has shrunk the US federal workforce more than Ronald Reagan
2/10/2014 - Why you should steer clear of longer cruises
2/10/2014 - The best investment of the year is oats! Yes, oats!
2/10/2014 - Apple’s Tim Cook only had to spend $14 billion and sit through dinner to buy off Carl Icahn
2/10/2014 - What every Ivy League college is looking for in its admission essays
2/10/2014 - HTC repents for its high-end smartphone hubris, but it may be too late
2/10/2014 - Goldman partner pay ain’t what it used to be
2/10/2014 - Downloads of this dating app will serve as a loneliness index this Valentine’s
2/10/2014 - Asia’s frugal middle class will drive the next two decades of air traffic growth
2/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Bitcoin on eBay, Australian carmakers, toddler milk, giraffe meat
2/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bitcoin on eBay, Australian carmakers, toddler milk, giraffe meat
2/10/2014 - Some of the world’s largest banks are suffering from financial gangrene
2/10/2014 - Why China just built this lantern-shaped research base in Antarctica
2/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Same-sex law & order, Syria talks revived, emerging markets slump, Marius the giraffe RIP
2/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Same-sex law & order, Syria talks revived, emerging markets slump, Maurius the giraffe RIP
2/9/2014 - Tokyo elected a pro-nuke governor by a landslide, just three years after Fukushima
2/9/2014 - Breastfeeding is winning! So companies are pushing “toddler milk” to neurotic parents
2/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Tokyo’s new governor, McDonald’s in Vietnam, Abe’s censorship, marijuana munchies
2/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Tokyo’s new governor, McDonald’s in Vietnam, Abe’s censorship, marijuana munchies
2/9/2014 - You can thank Obamacare for that raise
2/9/2014 - Women pay a steep price for their more flexible work schedules
2/9/2014 - This German town is building life around sleep
2/9/2014 - A system engineer knows how to stop your screaming kid at the grocery store
2/8/2014 - At this year’s Olympics, the gold medal goes to the quantified self
2/8/2014 - Harry Potter fans wrote the happy ending that J.K. Rowling regrets she couldn’t
2/8/2014 - Why Manchester United’s stock price is going the way of its dismal season
2/8/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Let the games begin in Sochi, labor markets, past is present
2/7/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Let the games begin in Sochi, labor markets, past is present
2/7/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Let the games begin in Sochi, labor markets, past is present
2/7/2014 - Why a second downgrade will hit Puerto Rico where it hurts
2/7/2014 - Why skiing is a counter-terrorism policy
2/7/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Let the games begin in Sochi, labor markets, past is present
2/7/2014 - It’s a good thing Pandora didn’t listen to that nonsense about “failing fast”
2/7/2014 - This lawsuit threatens to end Walmart’s exploitative ways
2/7/2014 - No one wants to pay the extra $1.6 billion it’s going to take to finish expanding the Panama Canal
2/7/2014 - It turns out people are better at protecting their privacy than companies would like
2/7/2014 - You’re three minutes away from learning how to launch a successful crowd funding campaign
2/7/2014 - Why are obese Brazilians getting discounted tickets to the World Cup?
2/7/2014 - Tim Armstrong’s offensive remarks are exactly what Obamacare-blaming CEOs are thinking
2/7/2014 - One of the world’s great investment thinkers is convinced fracking is causing earthquakes
2/7/2014 - David Beckham is trying to make it in the ultimate soccer graveyard: Miami
2/7/2014 - Get a PhD—but leave academia as soon as you graduate
2/7/2014 - The complete US jobs report for January in two simple charts
2/7/2014 - The US economy added 113,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.6%
2/7/2014 - Inside the murky world of knockoff smartphone apps and the ads that fuel them
2/7/2014 - How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to earn a beer
2/7/2014 - Why 2,000 passengers just rioted at an airport in China
2/7/2014 - It’s only a matter of time before Netflix tramples HBO globally
2/7/2014 - Bitcoin company offers stock denominated in bitcoin
2/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—US farm bill, begging the Scots, ArcelorMittal optimism, ‘third world’ LaGuardia
2/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—US farm bill, begging the Scots, ArcelorMittal optimism, ‘third world’ LaGuardia
2/7/2014 - ArcelorMittal nominates “cautious optimism” as the theme of 2014
2/7/2014 - Is a share buyback the best Apple could do with $14 billion?
2/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Sochi begins, Apple buyback, US’s dangerous exports, hallucinogenic hydrangeas
2/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Sochi begins, Apple buyback, US’s dangerous imports, hallucinogenic hydrangeas
2/6/2014 - Sochi will ruin India’s international reputation—and rightfully so
2/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Sochi shenanigans, mixed media fortunes, leaky politics, Skype exorcisms
2/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Sochi shenanigans, mixed media fortunes, leaky politics, Skype exorcisms
2/6/2014 - LinkedIn is doubling down on the most important, least visible part of its business
2/6/2014 - UBS is beating Credit Suisse in the race to see who can shrink the fastest
2/6/2014 - News Corp’s best businesses last quarter? Teen sci-fi novels and cookbooks
2/6/2014 - Russians find homosexuality more immoral than drinking, infidelity or abortion
2/6/2014 - Setting too many stretch goals can backfire on managers
2/6/2014 - Humans may be the next GMO frontier, thanks to Chinese scientists and their mutant monkeys
2/6/2014 - The Kremlin: This leaked tape shows the US is backing Ukraine’s opposition
2/6/2014 - It’s not just Obamacare. In the future, we’ll all work less
2/6/2014 - That fake iPhone is probably full of lead
2/6/2014 - Disney’s “magic” bracelets are driving more people to its parks
2/6/2014 - We need to hear the stories of these 382 New Yorkers killed by heroin, too
2/6/2014 - America’s fastest growing exports are the ones that destroy the planet
2/6/2014 - Disney has ESPN to thank for another blowout quarter
2/6/2014 - Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t know how to be happy
2/6/2014 - How Puerto Rico got into this economic mess you keep hearing about
2/6/2014 - How to make sense of H10N8, H1N1, H7N9, and other bewildering bird flu names
2/6/2014 - Can the New York Times’s online readership offset its prolonged ad slump?
2/6/2014 - The secret of the non-game app that had the biggest sales in 2013? Games
2/6/2014 - No, PlayStation 4 isn’t enough to save Sony
2/6/2014 - Chinese “counterfeit DuPont plastic” prompted Aston Martin’s giant recall
2/6/2014 - Tiffany’s blue boxes are red hot on the black market
2/6/2014 - Market research can no longer predict what consumers will like
2/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—ECB’s uncharted territory, Sony’s spiraling woes, Iran’s acquiescence, Sochi’s toothpaste bombs
2/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—ECB’s uncharted territory, Sony’s spiraling woes, Iran’s acquiescence, Sochi’s toothpaste bombs
2/6/2014 - Doing business with North Korea is proving impossible, even for China
2/6/2014 - India’s MIT costs less than $6,000 a year—and look where it got Satya Nadella
2/6/2014 - China’s military worries that its only-child recruits are “wimps”
2/6/2014 - The Dreamliner’s latest in-flight emergency might be its scariest yet
2/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—ECB’s uncharted territory, GM in Asia, Twitter’s maiden results, Sochi toothpaste threat
2/5/2014 - Green Mountain and Coke just staved off their biggest threats in one fell swoop
2/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Mexico’s upgrade, rate-rigging probes, the next Detroit, the papal motorbike
2/5/2014 - Soon everyone’s going to be able to make their own Coca-Cola
2/5/2014 - Pandora’s listening hours, revenue and earnings are up, but shares are down
2/5/2014 - Twitter’s first earnings report in charts: more money from less-engaged users
2/5/2014 - There’s a potential solution to US road salt shortages and it is cheese
2/5/2014 - Currency trading scandals are the next big black eye for banks
2/5/2014 - Is Quora the future of the press release?
2/5/2014 - Sochi’s Olympic orcas are missing. Have they been smuggled to China?
2/5/2014 - Is this the end of America’s debt ceiling wars?
2/5/2014 - America’s beer brewing history: 1887-2013
2/5/2014 - Could the Detroit of the future be Cupertino?
2/5/2014 - Here’s how Google search will change after a three-year battle with European regulators
2/5/2014 - Having kids doesn’t make you less productive
2/5/2014 - How long before US firms stop making PCs altogether?
2/5/2014 - CVS’s decision to stop selling cigarettes has got to be one of the easiest it ever made
2/5/2014 - China’s housing market is looking ugly, which is scary for its financial system
2/5/2014 - One out of every two sandwiches sold in France is now a hamburger
2/5/2014 - Four big questions for Twitter ahead of its first quarterly earnings report
2/5/2014 - The kimchi war between South Korea and China is getting extra spicy
2/5/2014 - Apple’s admitting the “cheap” iPhone 5c failed by bringing back the iPhone 4
2/5/2014 - Netflix might have more subscribers, but HBO makes more money
2/5/2014 - Why comparing China to Nazi Germany is bad for everyone
2/5/2014 - Strangely, Korea has a kimchi deficit and it’s getting worse
2/5/2014 - Your work-life balance hangs in these four quadrants
2/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Twitter results, Sony ditching Vaio, new bird flu, ice vs. pickle juice
2/5/2014 - Not even rickshaw drivers in Bangalore are safe from the Polar Vortex
2/5/2014 - One line from “Saturday Night Live” explains the turmoil in emerging markets
2/5/2014 - In search of wide open spaces and new cultures, Chinese tourists mostly find each other
2/5/2014 - China is building a wool empire in Australia to feed its latest luxury fad
2/5/2014 - How Satya Nadella will lead Microsoft differently
2/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Twitter results, Ukraine truce, new bird flu, ice vs. pickle juice
2/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Twitter results, Akamai’s future, Puerto Rico’s downgradem, Quaaludes
2/4/2014 - Will e-cigarettes help Big Tobacco become Big Marijuana, too?
2/4/2014 - When you flirt with other brands, you only like your old favorites more
2/4/2014 - Bill Gates’ new job could be as big a deal for Microsoft as its new CEO
2/4/2014 - How the emerging market sell-off gets much, much worse
2/4/2014 - IBM saved its earnings by moving almost half its employees to the Netherlands
2/4/2014 - Whose fault is the emerging market sell-off?
2/4/2014 - Climate change is slowly but steadily cooking the world’s oceans
2/4/2014 - McDonald’s is running out of ketchup in Argentina
2/4/2014 - GM’s new CEO has one job: Stop letting the guys in suits design cars
2/4/2014 - San Francisco-based start-up Zendesk is inching toward a public offering
2/4/2014 - Four ways Microsoft wants you to see its new CEO Satya Nadella
2/4/2014 - How fitness monitors made me yearn for exactly the kind of smartwatch Apple is supposedly building
2/4/2014 - Why I’ve finally joined Facebook on Facebook’s tenth anniversary
2/4/2014 - If car culture is really dying, it’s a long, slow, complicated death
2/4/2014 - Why companies are finally tapping Indians for more than IT positions
2/4/2014 - Immigration is saving the US from an aging crisis
2/4/2014 - A dearth of 3D movies could hurt the cinema industry this year
2/4/2014 - The “transformation” of UBS is a pleasant surprise, but there is plenty of pain ahead
2/4/2014 - One of the biggest threats to America’s future has the easiest fix
2/4/2014 - A Thailand rice deal is too corrupt for China, adding to the government’s woes
2/4/2014 - The American cable industry’s cunning plan to save itself: Make TV work like it should
2/4/2014 - Jawbone is sounding out for more cash even though it recently raised a ton
2/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Internet land rush, Karzai’s Taliban talks, T-Mobile-Sprint warning, nonexistent electric eels
2/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Internet land rush, the race for F1, Toyota and BP results, Sochi a boondoggle?
2/3/2014 - This Chinese online retailer’s IPO documents could be a bit too candid
2/3/2014 - Despite the hoopla, 2014 will not be the year of the electric car
2/3/2014 - KFC’s biggest customer is scared of its chicken
2/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Europe’s corruption, the race for F1, the end of banking, facial tattoos
2/3/2014 - Lithuanians and Romanians are more than six times as likely to be asked for bribes than the EU average
2/3/2014 - Dropping healthy grocery stores into urban slums may not lower obesity rates
2/3/2014 - Nutella should be worried about Hershey’s new hazelnut spread
2/3/2014 - Team USA’s much-maligned Winter Olympics uniform is actually beautiful
2/3/2014 - It’s true. Your trade secrets aren’t safe in China
2/3/2014 - Smuggling cost the Philippines $3 billion in 2011
2/3/2014 - Organic food preferences reveal young Americans’ secret love of Wal-Mart
2/3/2014 - The 401(k)—America’s big, troubled, $4 trillion retirement solution—was an accident
2/3/2014 - Calvinklein.clothing, soccer.guru, and brownpeople.singles—this is what the new web looks like
2/3/2014 - Why monetary policy should ignore bubbles
2/3/2014 - The market’s big surprise so far this year: oats!
2/3/2014 - Will Apple find enough consumers in China to buy its iPhone?
2/3/2014 - Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data
2/3/2014 - Battered Ukrainian protestor says his attackers were from Russia
2/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—China slumps, Europe expands, Mandela’s will, year of the horse fight
2/3/2014 - Why the Year of the Horse could be a winner for the Hong Kong stock exchange
2/3/2014 - Ryanair’s kinder, gentler approach begins to pay off—but not for its bottom line
2/3/2014 - China’s biggest television event was way bigger than the Super Bowl—and just as unexciting
2/3/2014 - One of the most buzzed-about Super Bowl ads wasn’t actually an ad
2/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—China’s slump continues, NATO in Palestine, Thai election disrupted, “missed call” scams
2/2/2014 - Chinese tourists increasingly love Antarctica, but Americans still predominate
2/2/2014 - Why you’ll never see Philip Seymour Hoffman’s greatest performance
2/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Election tensions, abortion rallies in Spain, China’s weak military, the world’s biggest boozers
2/2/2014 - This de facto African country is printing beasts on its currency to gain global recognition
2/2/2014 - How even the stodgiest retailer can win over millennials
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