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2014 July
7/31/2014 - The Philippines now has 100 million people—and just about as many problems and possibilities
7/31/2014 - It just doesn’t add up—why do Indians buy so much self-tanner?
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Gaza ceasefire, WTO breakdown, the blame for Argentina, rowdy drinkers
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Gaza ceasefire, WTO breakdown, the blame for Argentina, rowdy drinkers
7/31/2014 - Investors are not happy with GoPro’s first earnings report
7/31/2014 - Now that it’s conquered recruiters, LinkedIn is going after salespeople
7/31/2014 - Weirdly, investors aren’t impressed by Elon Musk and Tesla today
7/31/2014 - Asia is about to kick global growth up a notch
7/31/2014 - Diageo didn’t do so well at selling “disgusting firewater” this year
7/31/2014 - How many of Twitter’s active users are actually human?
7/31/2014 - Who’s to blame for Argentina’s debt default?
7/31/2014 - Facebook is creating a parallel internet in emerging markets
7/31/2014 - Why do kids’ clothes need to be gender-specific, anyway?
7/31/2014 - The WWE is convinced its Netflix-style experiment is going to succeed
7/31/2014 - France’s “Steve Jobs” and T-Mobile’s John Legere could be a match made in mobile heaven
7/31/2014 - A sneak peek at Samsung’s future stock chart
7/31/2014 - Bill Ackman just acknowledged the one thing most people already knew about his Herbalife event
7/31/2014 - Bet you didn’t notice this tiny but revealing Facebook design change
7/31/2014 - A new tool tells companies when they’re about to lose their best people
7/31/2014 - What official rankings don’t tell you about where to go to university
7/31/2014 - The incredible rising internet bill
7/31/2014 - The end of China’s hated hukou system is less ground-breaking than it seems
7/31/2014 - Germany’s World Cup run put some serious froth in the country’s beer sales
7/31/2014 - Time Warner Cable continues to bleed video customers in what will probably be its last Q2 earnings report
7/31/2014 - What privacy settings tell you about the profound differences between Google and Apple
7/31/2014 - Everything we think we know about being the child of divorce is wrong
7/31/2014 - The most important charts to see before the huge July jobs report
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Samsung down, Sony up, Banco Espirito wipeout, DC baby boom
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Samsung down, Sony up, Banco Espirito wipeout, DC baby boom
7/31/2014 - India’s Parliament is hiring men with a gift for mimicry to scare away monkeys
7/31/2014 - The unsung hero of Hawaii’s economy is its recession-proof film and TV industry
7/31/2014 - Why slowing US gun sales aren’t good news for gun-control advocates
7/31/2014 - Polish people are using apple-eating selfies to give Putin the finger
7/31/2014 - Samsung is stuck between a rock and a hard place, so it’s just going to try harder
7/31/2014 - To make small loans, India’s banks take too long, require too much paperwork
7/31/2014 - Why Fox’s attempt to solve Hollywood’s women problem won’t work
7/31/2014 - Could World War III be coming?
7/31/2014 - The best time to book a flight ticket, and other insights into how India flies
7/31/2014 - Water sources are being attacked, and it is fueling the fire in Gaza
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Argentina’s default, Snapchat’s funding, Samsung’s bad year, DC baby boom
7/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Argentina’s default, Snapchat’s funding, Samsung’s bad year, DC baby boom
7/30/2014 - How many districts are there in India? Nobody is really sure
7/30/2014 - Argentina may have found a way to default without defaulting
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Argentina’s maybe-default, Snapchat’s maybe-funding, Airbnb for business, grilled cheese
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Argentina’s maybe-default, Snapchat’s maybe-funding, Airbnb for business, grilled cheese
7/30/2014 - The rise and fall of BlackBerry in one chart
7/30/2014 - The most exclusive club in the tech startup world is expanding
7/30/2014 - No matter what anyone tells you, guys: Sweatpants are not the new jeans
7/30/2014 - Why $10 billion isn’t a crazy valuation for Snapchat—and may turn out to be a bargain
7/30/2014 - What’s behind the radio silence on Sprint’s T-Mobile takeover
7/30/2014 - Why the UK wants driverless cars on its roads by January
7/30/2014 - London’s bankers can now be forced to pay back bonuses long after they’ve spent them
7/30/2014 - A global merger boom could help cure banks of their trading doldrums
7/30/2014 - Shareholders seem to have shamed Oracle into reducing Larry Ellison’s giant pay package
7/30/2014 - US GDP chartbook: All the numbers you need to see
7/30/2014 - Here are the 35 countries one flight away from Ebola-affected countries
7/30/2014 - Why gay marriage has had more success than marijuana legalization, and what it tells us about America
7/30/2014 - Amazon matches Flipkart’s $1 billion Indian investment—and doubles it
7/30/2014 - Why business travelers should think twice about booking through Airbnb
7/30/2014 - Singapore’s solution to rush hour: free off-peak subway rides
7/30/2014 - Stockholm is crowdsourcing the color of its new subway line
7/30/2014 - How solar energy storage could make Tesla much more than an automaker
7/30/2014 - Companies that care about employee happiness have a better bottom line
7/30/2014 - Microsoft can still compete in the battle for your living room
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ebola fears globalize, Synchrony IPO, Russia’s sanctions shrug, Qaeda Kidnapping Inc.
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ebola fears globalize, Synchrony IPO, Russia’s sanctions shrug, Qaeda Kidnapping Inc.
7/30/2014 - India’s WTO position reflects Modi’s desire to emerge as a champion of farmers
7/30/2014 - Two sick passengers were tested for Ebola in Hong Kong and the UK
7/30/2014 - A model’s naked protest is the least of Adani’s challenges in $15 billion Australian coal project
7/30/2014 - Theories on Zhou Yongkang’s takedown, and a brief history of Chinese purges
7/30/2014 - China’s latest terror attack took place in one of its poorest areas
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Argentina’s last gasp, Synchrony IPO, Russia’s double trouble, Al Qaeda Kidnapping Inc.
7/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Argentina’s last gasp, Synchrony IPO, Russia’s double trouble, Al Qaeda Kidnapping Inc.
7/29/2014 - The richest Indian homes spend the most on a hopelessly unproductive asset
7/29/2014 - Here’s how Twitter is rethinking its product—so that more people actually use it
7/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Argentina’s last gasp, Russia’s double trouble, IPO bonanza, the next Zumba
7/29/2014 - DreamWorks Animation isn’t doing well with movies, so it’s expanding into TV
7/29/2014 - Argentina is about to choose a sovereign default that could wipe out its foreign reserves
7/29/2014 - How to tell if the new sanctions on Russia are working
7/29/2014 - Twitter’s shares are soaring on strong user and ad growth
7/29/2014 - Bonds, tanks, drills, and the Ebola virus: Some of the things Europeans can no longer sell to Russia
7/29/2014 - The complete history of German bond yields, from Napoleon to Angela Merkel
7/29/2014 - Twitter’s earnings call will be a role reversal for ex-Goldman star Noto
7/29/2014 - How Facebook’s fancy New York office explains its management philosophy
7/29/2014 - The New York Times’ earnings were not quite as ugly as the firing of its former top editor
7/29/2014 - BP’s sweet deal with Russia is suddenly turning sour
7/29/2014 - With a $1 billion funding round wrapped up, what next for Flipkart?
7/29/2014 - The Family Dollar deal embodies everything wrong with American capitalism
7/29/2014 - London has grown too big for its current boundaries
7/29/2014 - Twitter hashtags are finally neutralizing the Israeli government’s propaganda
7/29/2014 - Gay men are shaming each other over the anti-HIV drug that could save their lives
7/29/2014 - BlaBlaCar is building a global transportation network out of empty car seats
7/29/2014 - The world’s third-largest smartphone maker is weirdly cagey about its progress outside of China
7/29/2014 - What fonts tell us about the global economics of the internet
7/29/2014 - An Indian e-commerce start-up’s $1 billion funding round is confirmed—and it may even be justified
7/29/2014 - I quit working full-time years ago—here’s why I recommend it highly
7/29/2014 - There’s no longer any doubt that Microsoft is in China’s crosshairs
7/29/2014 - How AMC Networks could benefit from the urge to merge in cable TV
7/29/2014 - One reason Time Warner execs are happy to sell: $80-million golden parachutes
7/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Twitter results, Cold War redux, China probes Microsoft, dating profiles useless
7/29/2014 - Abenomics isn’t working out so well for the man who created it
7/29/2014 - Twitter’s pivotal quarterly results are all about user growth
7/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Twitter results, Cold War redux, China probes Microsoft, dating profiles useless
7/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Twitter results, Cold War redux, China probes Microsoft, dating profiles useless
7/28/2014 - Perhaps Bill Ackman’s best strategy against Herbalife is to keep his mouth shut
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Eid bloodshed, Abenomics data, Kremlin fine, Chávez font
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Eid bloodshed, Abenomics data, Kremlin fine, Chávez font
7/28/2014 - Reducing India’s dependence on foreign oil and gas
7/28/2014 - Virgin America is a low-cost airline making its money from high-priced tickets
7/28/2014 - OkCupid experimented on users and proved everyone just looks at the pictures
7/28/2014 - C-SPAN is going behind the cable TV paywall
7/28/2014 - The US has lost tens of thousands of AK-47s in Afghanistan
7/28/2014 - Why Ivy League schools can laugh off the disruption “threat”
7/28/2014 - Meet the surprisingly avant-garde architects designing George Lucas’s Chicago museum
7/28/2014 - Dubai is rewarding two-year-olds with gold for losing weight. Bad idea.
7/28/2014 - One-third of people in Europe say they don’t feel European
7/28/2014 - The ugly side of Thailand’s elephant tourism
7/28/2014 - Here are the 3D-printed things you can buy on Amazon
7/28/2014 - Why Ebola reaching Nigeria’s largest city is a whole new level of scary
7/28/2014 - Automation + recessions = a radical shift in the shape of America’s jobs market
7/28/2014 - HBO is finally ready to break out of the cable TV bundle
7/28/2014 - The billionaires set to get even richer on the dollar-store mega-merger
7/28/2014 - The best argument yet for net neutrality comes from Major League Baseball
7/28/2014 - The media are misconstruing how Americans really feel about Israel
7/28/2014 - Only the very brave, or foolish, are investing in Russia right now
7/28/2014 - Don’t misread the rhodium rally
7/28/2014 - Watch John Oliver make the case that America is the world’s greatest nuclear threat
7/28/2014 - China is using its immense commercial fishing fleet as a surrogate navy
7/28/2014 - The diplomatic battle between China and Japan is taking a Latin American road trip
7/28/2014 - If you want to be rich and powerful, majoring in STEM is a good place to start
7/28/2014 - Here’s what automakers have to gain from connecting cars to the internet
7/28/2014 - How a little brown cow introduced a generation of Americans to the source of their food
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Gaza Eid ceasefire, Russia’s $50B verdict, McDonald’s goes meatless, zero-G geckos saved
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Gaza Eid ceasefire, Russia’s $50B verdict, McDonald’s goes meatless, zero-G geckos saved
7/28/2014 - Here is how salaries of Indian and US CEOs stack up, adjusted for purchasing power
7/28/2014 - India’s federal investigating agency opens enquiry against Google’s mapping contest
7/28/2014 - Chinese pressure just shuttered Hong Kong’s version of the Huffington Post
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Drug company deal-making, McDonald’s forced vegetarianism, Ebola outbreak spreads, robot hitchhiker
7/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Drug company deal-making, McDonald’s forced vegetarianism, Ebola outbreak spreads, robot hitchhiker
7/27/2014 - Some Chinese McDonalds are only selling fries and drinks due to a meat recall
7/27/2014 - Indian Railways just made yet another futile promise to end this terrible practice
7/27/2014 - This woman in 1883 had the best answer to the question of why a girl would want to be a doctor
7/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Eid al-Fitr, GSK’s future, Ebola’s victims, hitchhiking robot
7/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Eid al-Fitr, GSK’s future, Ebola’s victims, hitchhiking robot
7/27/2014 - What the government of Gujarat is encouraging children to read is dismaying
7/27/2014 - Nobody seems quite sure how Spain’s new “Google tax” will work
7/27/2014 - How tequila made its way to the top shelf in the US
7/27/2014 - When China stops copying Western tech giants is when they should start worrying
7/27/2014 - Watch a coal power station that stood for 44 years disappear in 10 seconds
7/26/2014 - These are the most popular beers in the world’s biggest beer market
7/26/2014 - To get a golf course built in China, call it a “resort”
7/26/2014 - I’ve worked at McDonald’s for 10 years and still make $7.35 an hour
7/26/2014 - Koreans’ love of good coffee is getting even more intense
7/26/2014 - Zimbabwe is looking to end its isolation by compensating evicted white farmers
7/26/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—China v Japan, streaming music wars, Putin’s bubble, operatic racism
7/26/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—China v Japan, streaming music wars, Putin’s bubble, operatic racism
7/25/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—China v Japan, streaming music wars, Putin’s bubble, operatic racism
7/25/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—China v Japan, streaming music wars, Putin’s bubble, operatic racism
7/25/2014 - A drone takes a spin around Seattle’s Space Needle in this spectacular video
7/25/2014 - This week the markets sent a clear message about China
7/25/2014 - The latest front in the war of words with Russia: McDonald’s cheeseburgers
7/25/2014 - Five lessons to learn from the Wall Street career of Ace Greenberg
7/25/2014 - BSkyB, Sky Italia, and Sky Deutschland are merging to create a pay-TV giant with 20 million customers
7/25/2014 - The US’s western states are guzzling water so fast they don’t realize they’re running out
7/25/2014 - Google has run away with the web search market and almost no one is chasing
7/25/2014 - How this smart contraceptive design could liberate women in Africa
7/25/2014 - Indian billionaire Subrata Roy may score a jailhouse office to auction off his trophy properties
7/25/2014 - The better I became at English, the more my brain suppressed the Russian inside of me
7/25/2014 - Zomato has a “deskless” office so that employees never get too complacent
7/25/2014 - The 14 most important charts from a momentum-shifting week for the global economy
7/25/2014 - Here’s how much tax Google paid on its European operations last year
7/25/2014 - Bizarrely, RBS has its “bad bank” to thank for a bumper profit
7/25/2014 - Facebook is now worth more than Coca-Cola, Disney, Intel
7/25/2014 - SpaceX scores an early win in its lawsuit against the US government
7/25/2014 - Adani’s ambitious coal mine in Australia faces a formidable opponent—Nemo
7/25/2014 - Bangladesh can look to this unlikely place to fix its garment sector
7/25/2014 - The complete guide to having a creative breakthrough
7/25/2014 - Finally, a chair that replicates the look, feel, and smell of human flesh
7/25/2014 - How to run a team of people who never see each other
7/25/2014 - What I want to say to the richest kids in the world
7/25/2014 - A survival guide for the global kale crisis
7/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—UK GDP climbs, Russian sanction pain, protests in Jerusalem, zero-G gecko peril
7/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—UK GDP climbs, Russian sanction pain, protests in Jerusalem, zero-G gecko peril
7/25/2014 - Alibaba can get you a 99.999% discount on Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Dog”
7/25/2014 - China’s cancelled Burma railway is its latest derailment in southeast Asia
7/25/2014 - You don’t need to build technology to start a technology company
7/25/2014 - The rule of thumb assumptions Indian lenders make to screen loan applicants are mostly wrong
7/25/2014 - These robots cheer for absent fans at South Korean baseball games
7/25/2014 - Baidu’s transition to mobile ads makes it look more like Facebook, and less like Google
7/25/2014 - Indian industry is thrilled about some provisions in the new Companies Act; so why are they complaining?
7/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Russian sanction pain, Amazon disappoints, Algerie wreckage found, zero-G gecko peril
7/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Russian sanction pain, Amazon disappoints, Algerie wreckage found, zero-G gecko peril
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Pain in Russia, another plane crash, reality TV, Darth Vader’s popularity
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Another plane crash, Japan’s inflation, Kiev elections, near-fatal solar storm
7/24/2014 - Amazon’s cloud price war with Google is starting to hurt
7/24/2014 - JetBlue is stealing legroom from coach to give to its new business class
7/24/2014 - This is how you invent a person online
7/24/2014 - Ukraine’s politicians have decided that their country could use even more turmoil right now
7/24/2014 - Barclays says that New York’s top prosecutor has no business wading around its dark pools
7/24/2014 - Powerful people have a distorted perception of time
7/24/2014 - What India’s Arvind Kejriwal can learn from Indonesia’s new president
7/24/2014 - LVMH has a “cognac situation” in China—and it’s dragging on sales
7/24/2014 - The seven most important economic charts of the day
7/24/2014 - This year’s freak spate of crashes doesn’t mean air travel’s getting more dangerous
7/24/2014 - Five games that will improve your kids’ executive function
7/24/2014 - American cable channels have blended into an indistinguishable swamp of reality TV
7/24/2014 - Factory safety is improving in Bangladesh—but it still takes three months to get a new fire door
7/24/2014 - Why the US is financing an $100-million aquarium in Brazil
7/24/2014 - Peak Vogue: The September issue will be thinner this year
7/24/2014 - There’s still one place uniting Israelis and Palestinians: cancer’s waiting room
7/24/2014 - At this rate it will take Spain until 2016, at best, to recover all of the jobs it lost
7/24/2014 - This new-era brokerage company thinks it can help people profit—literally—from the news
7/24/2014 - GM’s ongoing recall nightmare erased more than a billion in profit
7/24/2014 - Mexico’s completely sensible anti-soda tax is working
7/24/2014 - Markets cheer as Modi govt makes first major reform move—FDI cap in insurance relaxed to 49%
7/24/2014 - Why narcissistic CEOs get paid more, even though they don’t perform better
7/24/2014 - VCs in India ask women entrepreneurs a different set of questions from the men
7/24/2014 - American TV shows might look more diverse, but their writers aren’t
7/24/2014 - The military isn’t giving up China’s airspace, no matter how many flight delays it causes
7/24/2014 - Only love, marriage, and Congress can save America’s most famous undocumented immigrant
7/24/2014 - This company wants to replace your car with a fleet of Teslas and electric bikes
7/24/2014 - Why boarding an airplane feels unfair and chaotic
7/24/2014 - A big myth about connectivity in the developing world, busted
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—GM’s misery, new MH17 evidence, ECB hacked, royal horse doping
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—GM’s misery, new MH17 evidence, ECB hacked, royal horse doping
7/24/2014 - Iraqi Kurdish oil may finally be freely for sale as the US seems to be dropping its threats
7/24/2014 - Israel’s attacks on Gaza are leading to Coca-Cola boycotts
7/24/2014 - These four charts break down India’s complex relationship with Hindi
7/24/2014 - Venezuela just mortgaged another $4 billion of its oil exports to China
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—GM’s misery, China and Japan manufacturing, Facebook liked, royal horse doping
7/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—GM’s misery, China and Japan manufacturing, Facebook liked, royal horse doping
7/23/2014 - Most of Facebook’s new users aren’t making the company much money
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—GM’s wounds, Taiwan’s plane crash, streaming music, swarming flies
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—GM’s wounds, Taiwan’s plane crash, streaming music, swarming flies
7/23/2014 - Facebook is making massive amounts of money on sky-rocketing mobile usage
7/23/2014 - Right now, Indian business leaders are the most optimistic in the world
7/23/2014 - Here’s an effective way to sanction Russia, and why it hasn’t happened so far
7/23/2014 - This year’s Booker long list features a big surprise: a crowd-funded novel
7/23/2014 - No, Indonesia is not proof that Muslim democracy can work
7/23/2014 - Malaysia Airlines’s rebrand rests on the forgiveness of one group
7/23/2014 - Microsoft might finally be committing to open source
7/23/2014 - China’s hunger for timber is wrecking Mozambique
7/23/2014 - The idea of Chindia never really got very far; Jindia has better prospects
7/23/2014 - As Europe’s leaders dither, public opinion is hardening against Russia
7/23/2014 - Big banks are firing traders but hiring lawyers
7/23/2014 - The world’s tallest slum—a “pirate utopia”—is being cleared by the Venezuelan government
7/23/2014 - What’s in a name? Everything
7/23/2014 - The bittersweet tale of the new exciting seedless mango
7/23/2014 - Four reasons why US fracking could turn out to be a bubble
7/23/2014 - It’s time to stop using “exoticism” as an excuse for opera’s racism
7/23/2014 - Everything that Apple is doing right in China
7/23/2014 - Birchbox is using its retail space to track customers offline
7/23/2014 - Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart just reportedly raised $1 billion in funding
7/23/2014 - Here’s why I never have to teach anything boring again
7/23/2014 - Chart: A ranking of European countries by how much couples argue over household chores
7/23/2014 - How to read the 21-character company code that is about to become ubiquitous in India
7/23/2014 - An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive
7/23/2014 - This emerging malware sends secret messages and is practically impossible to detect
7/23/2014 - Seven charts that leave you no choice but to feel optimistic about the US economy
7/23/2014 - In Israel, not just life hangs in the balance—work does, too
7/23/2014 - Bill Ackman just enriched a man he loathes with his failed Herbalife “death blow”
7/23/2014 - US airlines are still flying over these war zones
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Portuguese bankruptcy, Facebook earnings, Indonesia presidential plans, Beatle vs. beetles
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—More Portuguese bankruptcy, Facebook earnings, Indonesia presidential plans, Beatle vs. beetles
7/23/2014 - Landing on the moon just got a whole lot easier
7/23/2014 - India’s record in women’s participation in the workforce is depressing
7/23/2014 - Using expired meat in China was allegedly company policy for a US-owned supplier
7/23/2014 - How an outsider president plans to fix Indonesia’s struggling economy
7/23/2014 - With its chief in jail, India’s Sahara could sell $2 billion of hotels to raise bail
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Israel flights banned, Facebook earnings, EU inaction, Beatle vs. beetles
7/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel flights banned, Facebook earnings, EU inaction, Beatle vs. beetles
7/22/2014 - Half the subsidized urea used by Indian farmers is practically money down the drain
7/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Typhoon Matmo, Israel flight ban, Putin’s phone calls, micro-apartments
7/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Typhoon Matmo, Israel flight ban, Putin’s phone calls, micro-apartments
7/22/2014 - Apple’s real iPad problems are the iPhone and Mac
7/22/2014 - Microsoft’s weak earnings put its massive layoffs in context
7/22/2014 - Apple’s latest slow-growth quarter in charts
7/22/2014 - Bill Ackman’s attempt to destroy Herbalife has had exactly the opposite effect
7/22/2014 - Chipotle reckons 120 burritos per hour is still way too slow
7/22/2014 - The five ways American TV has changed forever
7/22/2014 - Coca-Cola’s investment in the World Cup didn’t exactly pay off
7/22/2014 - Six months of world leaders’ phone calls to Putin about the crisis in Ukraine, charted
7/22/2014 - China’s enormous bad debts may mean good times for bankruptcy experts
7/22/2014 - John Thain’s CIT just bought itself some intense regulatory scrutiny
7/22/2014 - Don’t give up on America’s long-term unemployed just yet
7/22/2014 - This entrepreneur doesn’t think it’s fair to only test the hearing of babies born to the rich
7/22/2014 - Xiaomi Mi3 launch traffic crashed Flipkart; the retail trade should worry
7/22/2014 - Britain is taunting Putin by reopening the sensational London murder of a KGB defector
7/22/2014 - The most promising technology for cleaning up ocean plastic is a giant wheel
7/22/2014 - No wonder Comcast is so desperate to prevent its cable customers from leaving
7/22/2014 - Here’s how the new Simpsons app will change your life
7/22/2014 - Scientists have discovered how to make people care about climate change
7/22/2014 - Asia’s richest man is building Hong Kong apartments barely bigger than a prison cell
7/22/2014 - Amazon is building the retail world’s most unbreachable “moat”—and it’s called Prime
7/22/2014 - Three things I learned at Goldman Sachs that helped me launch my own company
7/22/2014 - It’s time to admit that America will never really include black America
7/22/2014 - Americans hate Carnival Cruise Lines a lot less these days
7/22/2014 - Apple’s earnings report will contain iPhone 6 launch clues
7/22/2014 - Blockbuster retreated to Mexico, and now Netflix plans to track it down and kill it there
7/22/2014 - Credit Suisse strikes a deal to give Fidelity’s moms and pops a taste of the exuberant IPO market
7/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s disputed presidency, Apple earnings, US tax crackdown, bear bile contraband
7/22/2014 - Facebook is the best-performing stock in the S&P
7/22/2014 - Credit Suisse put a brave face on a largely lousy set of results
7/22/2014 - The Netherlands can choose to squeeze Russia’s economy over MH17
7/22/2014 - Phony Twitter accounts whitewashing China’s treatment of Tibet have been suspended
7/22/2014 - iPhones have a major security hole that Apple installed on purpose
7/22/2014 - How did Mike Horn end up with the World Cup-winning teams in football and cricket?
7/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s president, Apple earnings, US tax crackdown, giant duck missing
7/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s president, Apple earnings, US tax crackdown, giant duck missing
7/21/2014 - Here is why the NBA’s Sacramento Kings just launched a website in Hindi
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Indonesia’s president, Apple earnings, salmon trends, missing inflatable duck
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s president, Apple earnings, salmon trends, missing inflatable duck
7/21/2014 - America’s burrito addiction will not be stopped by higher Chipotle prices
7/21/2014 - All of the original series that Netflix is filming now (and where)
7/21/2014 - Six million people are still getting Netflix’s red envelopes in the mail
7/21/2014 - Netflix has topped 50 million streaming subscribers for the first time
7/21/2014 - Here are the tunnels Israel is trying to close with military action in Gaza
7/21/2014 - Thousands of ocean-themed Legos are washing up on a beach in Cornwall
7/21/2014 - US airline security fees have gone up and travelers aren’t happy
7/21/2014 - Why credit card companies are dangling more rewards in front of people
7/21/2014 - The designer who brought understatement back to Hermès is leaving
7/21/2014 - A new kind of no-frills bank could kickstart India’s long-awaited mobile money revolution
7/21/2014 - Five reasons why India finally won a Test match at Lord’s
7/21/2014 - Obama and Putin today went to battle over what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 17
7/21/2014 - The complete guide to staying healthy in the last week of Ramadan
7/21/2014 - South Korea needs a good, long nap
7/21/2014 - Barclays’ secretive trading business has plunged since regulators yanked it out of the shadows
7/21/2014 - How do messaging apps make money? They’re gaming platforms in disguise
7/21/2014 - How Starbucks can raise prices for your coffee and get away with it
7/21/2014 - The real story behind Japan’s drone boom
7/21/2014 - Cyber attacks on companies on the rise; ordinary Indians fall for the Nigerian scam
7/21/2014 - This designer wants to turn your loved ones’ cremains into small works of art
7/21/2014 - What happened to all the money Indian government pledged for startups in past budgets?
7/21/2014 - China’s housing market implosion is picking up speed
7/21/2014 - There was nobody left to blame for Tesco’s poor performance, so it dumped its boss
7/21/2014 - The US meat processing company at the rotten center of China’s latest food scandal
7/21/2014 - How to get ahead as a businesswoman: Order a whiskey on the rocks
7/21/2014 - The world’s largest mobile phone market is on the verge of becoming totally saturated
7/21/2014 - America catches some of the world’s best salmon but eats some of the worst
7/21/2014 - Charts: How we watch TV now
7/21/2014 - Xi Jinping’s next challenge is improving his popularity inside his own party
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Tesco CEO ousted, China fast-food scandal, Lego beach, dangerous thought experiments
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Tesco CEO ousted, China fast-food scandal, Lego beach, dangerous thought experiments
7/21/2014 - Removing the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia will give a $1-billion boost to Italy’s economy
7/21/2014 - Alibaba may detest China’s princelings, but they could earn huge profits from the company’s IPO
7/21/2014 - It’s time to do some tough talking to IITs and IIMs—they are slacking in research
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Deadly Gaza day, US vs Ukrainian rebels, China fast-food scandal, fist bumps ascendant
7/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Deadly Gaza day, US vs Ukrainian rebels, China fast-food scandal, fist bumps ascendant
7/20/2014 - KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonald’s are hit with a new China food scandal: expired meat products
7/20/2014 - Rain-fed farms are common, but India is unique in letting bad rains wreak economic havoc
7/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Deadliest day in Gaza, Ukraine clean-up, fist bumps
7/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Deadliest day in Gaza, Ukraine clean-up, fist bumps
7/20/2014 - You can find clues for how the iWatch will work in these Steve Jobs-era Apple wearables
7/20/2014 - Electronic Arts shares are up over 65% this year, as investors bet it’s weathering videogame disruption
7/20/2014 - Rory McIlroy’s father won more at the British Open than Tiger Woods
7/20/2014 - Big Tobacco won’t be paying out $23.6 billion to a Florida widow
7/20/2014 - Why families need to sit down and eat dinner together
7/20/2014 - America’s airlines are the world’s most profitable and least comfortable
7/20/2014 - What it’s like to be interrogated by the Chinese secret police
7/20/2014 - What actually happens to clothes after you put them in donation bins
7/20/2014 - GE has no business being in retail finance so it’s making a steady exit
7/19/2014 - The US embassy in Berlin was transformed into anti-NSA protest art for five minutes
7/19/2014 - Malaysia Airlines is offering refunds for any tickets to fly this year
7/19/2014 - Tesco wants to enter the UK’s insatiable housing market
7/19/2014 - Why most TV shows peak by their third season
7/19/2014 - There are dozens of ways to laugh online—and none of them sounds smart
7/19/2014 - Here’s a man rolling on a skateboard through South Korea, where Vans is making inroads
7/19/2014 - We only use 10% of our brains? That’s 100% wrong
7/19/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/19/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Americas edition—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/19/2014 - Putin is having trouble backing out of the corner in which he’s trapped himself
7/19/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/19/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Europe & Africa edition—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/18/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Asia edition—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/18/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Borders, battery science, the science of art, blood types
7/18/2014 - MH17 also claimed the life of a pillar of AIDS research
7/18/2014 - Will city-dwellers actually use a no-cellphones lane on the sidewalk?
7/18/2014 - What the AIDS generation lost on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight
7/18/2014 - The Malaysian Airlines crash will force the EU to either unite against Russia or admit it is hopelessly divided
7/18/2014 - Here’s how whoever shot down MH17 could have mistaken the passenger flight for a fighter jet
7/18/2014 - A journalist quit state-funded Russian TV, citing “lies” in its plane crash coverage
7/18/2014 - Microsoft just gifted the world’s most promising mobile phone market to Google
7/18/2014 - Is FedEx the most widespread drug distribution network in the US?
7/18/2014 - Banks are finding it’s not easy to fire traders accused of rigging financial markets
7/18/2014 - Here’s what’s replacing chewing gum in American mouths
7/18/2014 - How many ways of measuring itself is Twitter going to invent?
7/18/2014 - Why bitcoin buffs hate New York’s proposal to regulate bitcoins
7/18/2014 - Spacesuit technology is making its way into high-end dress shirts so men sweat less
7/18/2014 - How Rupert Murdoch could use Time Warner to finally rival ESPN
7/18/2014 - An oncologist’s argument for funding your own cancer research
7/18/2014 - As everyone gets into the TV business, Microsoft just got out of it
7/18/2014 - Everybody is making connected cars but nobody knows how to make money from them
7/18/2014 - What a pet insurer’s IPO tells us about America’s dog and cat obsession
7/18/2014 - The complete guide to negotiating a lower cable bill
7/18/2014 - The story behind the rise of the wedding drone
7/18/2014 - Why China wants to build a railway across South America
7/18/2014 - Take it from someone who helped trigger one: Beware of conspiracy theories on downed planes
7/18/2014 - How to write a cover letter, according to Leonardo da Vinci
7/18/2014 - Hershey’s bars are getting more expensive because of rising global chocolate demand
7/18/2014 - Nasdaq’s computers were hacked, and the US is ill-equiped to prevent it from happening again
7/18/2014 - Quinoa isn’t the only ancient crop falling prey to Western gluten-free appetites
7/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Malaysia Air mystery, AbbVie-Shire deal sealed, FedEx indicted, diversified superheros
7/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Malaysia Air mystery, AbbVie-Shire deal sealed, FedEx indicted, diversified superheros
7/18/2014 - This sanctioned Russian company makes the missile that may have destroyed Malaysia Airlines flight 17
7/18/2014 - China’s crowded buses are adding undercover cops to halt a string of arson attacks
7/18/2014 - Modi’s India is suddenly the darling of money managers, Bloomberg poll shows
7/18/2014 - “NCIS” is taking over the world—and New Orleans
7/18/2014 - Malaysia Airlines’ financial woes are about to get a lot worse
7/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Malaysia Airlines whodunit, Israel invades Gaza, Fedex drug charges, diversified superheros
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Malaysia’s crash investigation, Microsoft’s footprint, Nasdaq hackers, office f-bombs
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief— Malaysia’s crash investigation, Microsoft’s footprint, Nasdaq hackers, office f-bombs
7/17/2014 - The Gaza ground war has begun and it won’t end soon
7/17/2014 - How Malaysia Airlines can handle this crash better than its last
7/17/2014 - Google keeps growing—but top exec Nikesh Arora is leaving
7/17/2014 - The Malaysian Airlines crash is creating a crisis of intense gravity for Vladimir Putin
7/17/2014 - I became a better runner once I saw all it has in common with starting a business
7/17/2014 - Does high-frequency trading do more harm than good?
7/17/2014 - How Microsoft’s global footprint is changing with its massive layoffs
7/17/2014 - You can learn creativity, but not very much of it
7/17/2014 - Russia dismisses new sanctions, but the markets dumped Russian stocks in droves
7/17/2014 - This invasive plant is consuming the equivalent of 46,000 soccer fields of US land every year
7/17/2014 - Fish oil supplements may reduce cognitive decline, unless you’re already at risk for Alzheimer’s
7/17/2014 - Dolce and Gabbana’s dolce vita includes black toilet paper
7/17/2014 - A Malaysian Airlines flight has crashed in war-torn Ukraine due to missile attack
7/17/2014 - Microsoft is smart to prepare for its new role as underdog
7/17/2014 - It’s clear that Rupert Murdoch’s pursuit of Time Warner is only just beginning
7/17/2014 - Microsoft is laying off 14% of employees as it overhauls its mobile business
7/17/2014 - Indian graduates, especially women, don’t want to work for startups
7/17/2014 - How to get a mobile number without a phone or an Internet connection
7/17/2014 - The New York Times’ graphic front page photo puts the Gaza conflict into stark relief
7/17/2014 - Morgan Stanley’s stellar investment banking results take the focus off its trading stumble
7/17/2014 - Celebrity selfies have value—just don’t try to sell them
7/17/2014 - India is on course to miss most of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals by 2015
7/17/2014 - Meet the 10 parasites that are most likely to be in your food
7/17/2014 - This is how HBO markets the Rapture
7/17/2014 - Revenue from the Google Play store will overtake Apple’s app store in 2018
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Microsoft’s layoffs, Glaxo’s China bribery, UAE’s Mars mission
7/17/2014 - When Weird Al Yankovic sings about business jargon, he’s mocking these companies
7/17/2014 - The science behind the art of Jeff Koons
7/17/2014 - Can the world’s most promising electric-car battery be saved?
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Microsoft’s layoffs, Glaxo’s China bribery, UAE’s Mars mission
7/17/2014 - How free KFC wifi and the World Cup helped Yum Brands recover in China
7/17/2014 - Most juices sold in India contain more sugar than colas
7/17/2014 - What would happen if Mount Fuji erupted for the first time in 307 years?
7/17/2014 - Ten charts that prove BRICS nations have little in common
7/17/2014 - China tries to walk a fine line as a Middle East peacemaker
7/17/2014 - How artists are paying back the ubiquitous nurse from Kerala
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel’s pause, Murdoch’s rejection, Glaxo’s China bribery, UAE’s Mars mission
7/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Israel’s pause, Murdoch’s rejection, Glaxo’s China bribery, UAE’s Mars mission
7/16/2014 - With new Russia sanctions, the US has to tell Americans to stop buying Kalashnikov rifles
7/16/2014 - UK peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle just added Wall Street heavyweight Bob Steel to its board
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Murdoch’s rejection, Mexico’s obesity war, Gaza’s pause, teeth-cleaning weeds
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Murdoch’s rejection, Mexico’s obesity war, Gaza’s pause, teeth-cleaning weeds
7/16/2014 - At last, the owner of the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh has nowhere to hide
7/16/2014 - Why search still matters so much to Yahoo—and why that’s a problem
7/16/2014 - These high-tech sneakers are astronaut-approved
7/16/2014 - It’s not TV that Rupert Murdoch wants: It’s HBO
7/16/2014 - Trade between Europe and Russia is dwindling, even without more sanctions
7/16/2014 - Three decades after “The Cosby Show,” families of color are back on network television
7/16/2014 - Read Netflix’s plea to ban paid “fast lanes” on the internet
7/16/2014 - Rupert Murdoch seems to have fallen out of love with Twitter
7/16/2014 - Urban Outfitters can’t grow if it keeps offending everyone except suburban American teens
7/16/2014 - Which countries are the next BRICS? Use this tool to find out
7/16/2014 - Hillary Clinton sort of announced her presidential run on “The Daily Show”
7/16/2014 - Behind the scenes, tech firms tell US internet regulators: Make the internet a public utility
7/16/2014 - There are barely any drive-in movie theaters left in the US
7/16/2014 - Yahoo is going to hold on to Alibaba for as long as it can
7/16/2014 - Did Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes lie about Fox’s offer to buy his company?
7/16/2014 - Bank of America bucked the industry’s dour trading trend—but a shame about those legal costs
7/16/2014 - What a combined 21st Century Fox-Time Warner might look like
7/16/2014 - Watch a day in the life of a New York City cab driver
7/16/2014 - After India’s terrible IPO track record, the market’s bracing itself for a big one—finally
7/16/2014 - America the hypocritical—fighting to “protect” borders but not children
7/16/2014 - This viral smartphone ad about clueless dads stinks worse than a dirty diaper
7/16/2014 - The partnership between the CIA and Amazon will revolutionize intelligence
7/16/2014 - This software guy accidentally designed an app that is saving my dyslexic son
7/16/2014 - The story behind Cuba’s deal to send doctors to Brazil
7/16/2014 - A lead-contaminated Chinese town is using free milk to hide the evidence
7/16/2014 - MBAs are totally misguided about how much they’re worth
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s GDP addiction, UK unemployment falls, typhoon Rammasun, US sunscreen gap
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—China’s GDP addiction, UK unemployment falls, typhoon Rammasun, US sunscreen gap
7/16/2014 - The recipe for an ideal match isn’t beauty plus wealth
7/16/2014 - Reliance is telling CNN IBN journalists how to cover the Aam Aadmi Party
7/16/2014 - Why China just pulled its provocative oil rig from disputed waters in the South China Sea
7/16/2014 - These 4 actresses make a much better Mary Kom than Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s GDP addiction, UK unemployment, Yahoo’s Alibaba stake, US sunscreen gap
7/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—China’s GDP addiction, UK unemployment, Yahoo’s Alibaba stake, US sunscreen gap
7/15/2014 - China knows it has a problem, but it just can’t kick the investment habit
7/15/2014 - “Selfie” was the word of the year—and now it’s a TV show
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—China’s murky growth, cagey Janet Yellen, America’s famous undocumented immigrant, German luddites
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s murky growth, cagey Janet Yellen, America’s famous undocumented immigrant, German luddites
7/15/2014 - How to start a bank and let each of the BRICS be in charge
7/15/2014 - Yahoo is stumbling in its pursuit of growth
7/15/2014 - Intel made more than half a billion dollars from the “internet of things” last quarter
7/15/2014 - Line’s IPO will finally put a real value on messaging apps
7/15/2014 - India’s 75 million dairy farms now produce more milk than all of the European Union
7/15/2014 - How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire
7/15/2014 - Can a Brad Pitt movie from 1995 become a hit TV show?
7/15/2014 - This artist was arrested for sharing the data for a 3D vagina model
7/15/2014 - Jose Antonio Vargas has become the poster-adult for America’s child migrant problem
7/15/2014 - Alibaba now wants to be the Netflix of China
7/15/2014 - People remember ads more when they binge on TV shows
7/15/2014 - The future of passwords really is no passwords
7/15/2014 - Powerful images of life at the US-Mexico border—photographed by children
7/15/2014 - Jamie Dimon’s throat cancer diagnosis may mean less office time
7/15/2014 - Last wave of net neutrality comments has crashed the FCC’s site again
7/15/2014 - Goldman Sachs’ new profit engines are its private-equity-like business and M&A
7/15/2014 - Why a virtual goat video game is making real money
7/15/2014 - Hong Kong’s government says the city’s huge democracy protests weren’t mainstream enough to matter
7/15/2014 - It’s hard to put the scale of London’s property boom into words, so here are some charts
7/15/2014 - JPMorgan Chase trading results weren’t as shabby as feared
7/15/2014 - The World Economic Forum is erasing online traces of China’s “Davos Man” Rui Chenggang after his arrest
7/15/2014 - The company that wants your to-do list to be fun
7/15/2014 - The future of education should literally be child’s play
7/15/2014 - Beware, eBay and Sotheby’s have tried to sell art online together before—and failed
7/15/2014 - A Chinese internet giant has an app to help students cheat on their homework
7/15/2014 - For US television advertising, there’s P&G and then there’s everybody else
7/15/2014 - A monument to Greece’s ancient glory is holding up better than its crumbling economy
7/15/2014 - There’s a selfish reason to be nice to others
7/15/2014 - What it’s really like to be a woman at a tech conference
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel accepts ceasefire, BRICS strongmen meet, Germany’s sausage cartel, Obama’s credit card
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Israel accepts ceasefire, BRICS strongmen meet, Germany’s sausage cartel, Obama’s credit card
7/15/2014 - Exotic holidays, wristwatches, salt and other bizarre goods that India’s public-sector firms produce
7/15/2014 - Six charts that show Asian countries love America and fear China—except where it’s the opposite
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—BRICS strongmen meet, Israel-Palestinian ceasefire, UK cabinet shuffle, Obama’s credit card
7/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—BRICS strongmen meet, Israel-Palestinian ceasefire, UK cabinet shuffle, Obama’s credit card
7/14/2014 - The three men who rule most of the world have arrived in Brazil
7/14/2014 - There is much to celebrate about India today
7/14/2014 - The budget lavished funds on India’s northeast, where money can only do so much
7/14/2014 - The US Air Force won’t even admit it’s certifying SpaceX to launch satellites
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief— Asia edition—Jamie Dimon speaks, Yahoo earnings, women bishops, unseeable black
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief— Jamie Dimon speaks, Yahoo earnings, women bishops, unseeable black
7/14/2014 - The Eric Schmidt email confirming Google’s one-hour window to counter Facebook job offers
7/14/2014 - Doctors might be able to tell if you have Alzheimer’s by putting this cream on your eye
7/14/2014 - Finally, some good news for Pandora in the music licensing wars
7/14/2014 - This is why the World Cup trophies were handed out by Emirates air hostesses
7/14/2014 - This is what political patronage looks like from space
7/14/2014 - How a piece of apartheid history became jewelry
7/14/2014 - A Hong Kong company opened a boot factory in Tennessee—but it still has to import shoe boxes from China
7/14/2014 - This Google videogame is trying to drive iPhone users into advertisers’ real-world stores
7/14/2014 - BitTorrent bets people will pay for content that’s easy to download and modestly priced
7/14/2014 - Citigroup’s earnings were not that bad, after all
7/14/2014 - Indian IT sector is a boy’s club—but there’s reason to believe it’ll soon change
7/14/2014 - Watch John Oliver nail the reason that Americans tolerate income inequality
7/14/2014 - Airbus wants to patent a way to guarantee you even less legroom
7/14/2014 - Chart: How much of the world watches TV vs. internet video
7/14/2014 - This robot will soon help Boeing build its 777 airplanes
7/14/2014 - How GE is generating energy for India through innovation
7/14/2014 - America’s biggest internet company is worth more than its counterparts in the next 24 countries combined
7/14/2014 - Another US drug company tries to flip itself into low-tax territory
7/14/2014 - South Korea’s visa-free Jeju Island has become a Chinese tourism gold mine
7/14/2014 - The charges against GlaxoSmithKline’s investigators could unnerve more multinationals in China
7/14/2014 - China’s corruption crackdown just brought down its biggest TV anchor
7/14/2014 - This company sells Indians beverages with a dose of nostalgia, in a way Coke or Pepsi never can
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Shire won over, Lindt buys Stover, BRICS summit, anti-emigration pop
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Shire won over, Lindt buys Stover, BRICS summit, anti-emigration pop
7/14/2014 - China bemoans its people’s behavior in Africa—including undergarment ivory smuggling
7/14/2014 - Why has nobody heard of India’s Facebook?
7/14/2014 - Pizza Express’s Chinese buyer has deep pockets and few opportunities at home
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—BRICS summit, Singapore’s GDP stumble, Samsung’s factory suspension, anti-immigration pop
7/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—BRICS summit, Singapore’s GDP stumble, Samsung’s factory suspension, anti-immigration pop
7/13/2014 - Samsung suspends factory in China after finding evidence that it used child labor
7/13/2014 - Denmark leads the pack for digital news too
7/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—BRICS summit, space tourism, World Cup, eggs
7/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—BRICS summit, space tourism, World Cup, eggs
7/13/2014 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella needs an editor
7/13/2014 - Welcome to the era of social network tyranny
7/13/2014 - Rich Vietnamese snorting rhino horns are causing a poaching explosion in South Africa
7/13/2014 - Space tourists could soon be blasting off from Scotland
7/13/2014 - A lot of cars on American roads have been recalled—but they didn’t get returned
7/13/2014 - Brain imaging can be used to predict the stock market
7/13/2014 - With Germany’s win Microsoft perfectly predicted the World Cup’s knockout round
7/13/2014 - India’s budget speech took two hours; it could have been done in ten minutes
7/13/2014 - Meet all the real winners of the 2014 World Cup
7/12/2014 - Amazon’s drone delivery spectacle isn’t really about drones
7/12/2014 - This chart proves nobody cares about third place in the World Cup
7/12/2014 - Isn’t Burberry’s designer-CEO worth $17 million a year?
7/12/2014 - How Bill Gates resurrected his favorite business book of all time
7/12/2014 - Crumbs is dead, long live the cupcake
7/12/2014 - Arab states need cohesive social policies if they want stability
7/12/2014 - LeBron James’s next big move—as a TV producer
7/12/2014 - Adidas won the World Cup battle, but Nike is winning the soccer wars
7/12/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Gaza’s “Groundhog Day,” Andreessen’s tweets, Ukrainian utopians, the new atheists
7/12/2014 - This startup wants to streamline bathroom stall usage with traffic lights
7/12/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Gaza’s “Groundhog Day,” Andreessen’s tweets, Ukrainian utopians, the new atheists
7/11/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Gaza’s Groundhog Day,
7/11/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Gaza’s “Groundhog Day,” Andreessen’s tweets, Ukrainian utopians, the new atheists
7/11/2014 - What LeBron James is worth to the city of Cleveland
7/11/2014 - We live in exceptionally turbulent times—and will for another decade or more
7/11/2014 - Investors are completely baffled by Banco Espírito Santo
7/11/2014 - Forget London and Hong Kong—the most expensive cities for expats are in Africa
7/11/2014 - Scheduling business calls days in advance should be banned
7/11/2014 - How “The Comeback” came back
7/11/2014 - Not even China can drink enough milk to prevent the coming global glut
7/11/2014 - What Chinese child laborers have in common with the American truckers who unload their goods
7/11/2014 - How consolidation in Big Tobacco could actually be good for public health
7/11/2014 - Why a fancy food startup is selling vegan mayo to America’s poorest shoppers
7/11/2014 - How LinkedIn taught itself to hire the best people
7/11/2014 - This is Bill Gates’ favorite business book of all time
7/11/2014 - The voice of Hulu has been fired
7/11/2014 - Microsoft’s massive mobile problem—and opportunity—in two charts
7/11/2014 - Beijing thinks the iPhone is a threat to China’s national security
7/11/2014 - Here is an unexpected consequence of climate change: kidney stones
7/11/2014 - To get a loan in India, apply to an officer who speaks the same language (preferably at the end of the month)
7/11/2014 - George Lucas’s best idea since Star Wars: A museum of narrative art
7/11/2014 - Almost all of the world’s biggest cities will be in Asia and Africa by 2030
7/11/2014 - The future of US air travel doesn’t look pretty
7/11/2014 - These charts from India’s budget run counter to popular perception
7/11/2014 - The South China Sea’s oil tanker hijackers have rewritten the piracy playbook
7/11/2014 - The music industry’s newfangled growth business: vinyl records
7/11/2014 - Here’s why you may never be truly anonymous in a big data world
7/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Wells Fargo’s streak, Argentina’s ask, Big Tobacco’s merger, New York’s weed fail
7/11/2014 - This is the sound of electric cars racing
7/11/2014 - How the world’s largest economies take opposite approaches to foreign aid, in six charts
7/11/2014 - The money set aside for women in India’s budget has actually gone down
7/11/2014 - Wait. You can trademark the layout of a store?
7/11/2014 - Xi Jinping’s corruption purge is pitting China’s state-owned giants against each other
7/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Wells Fargo’s streak, Argentina’s ask, China’s laundering probe, Amazon’s drones
7/10/2014 - Yes, minister, India’s economy works just like its trains—it doesn’t
7/10/2014 - Expats should head straight for incredible, affordable India
7/10/2014 - Studies find that a shift in culture is critical to restoring trust in the finance industry
7/10/2014 - Mid-year macroeconomic outlooks for 2014
7/10/2014 - HBO plots the future of ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘True Detective,’ and maybe even ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Wyoming’s mogulganza, Apple’s copycat war, Martha Stewart’s drone, fat roosters
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Wyoming’s mogulganza, Apple’s copycat war, Martha Stewart’s drone, fat roosters
7/10/2014 - The key to a more productive classroom is more recess
7/10/2014 - Argentina really really really really needs this World Cup
7/10/2014 - A gruesome day for Europe’s markets in one table, three charts and a photo of Garth Brooks
7/10/2014 - New York’s new medical marijuana law is the worst in the US
7/10/2014 - Neverending bank scandals are great news for London’s top law firms
7/10/2014 - Microsoft’s new “worldview” marks a complete change from what made it huge in the first place
7/10/2014 - Men make more money than women even when they’re (legally) insider trading
7/10/2014 - Why Dish’s opposition to Comcast’s massive merger is so important
7/10/2014 - Netflix has gone from Emmys crasher to guest of honor
7/10/2014 - A new app turns a design museum’s collection into digital Rothkos
7/10/2014 - Cinemax wants to shed its “Skinemax” reputation with a high-end drama
7/10/2014 - The only white jeans you need
7/10/2014 - How Narendra Modi’s budget was different from previous governments—in 6 charts
7/10/2014 - The latest evidence that tech companies are waiting longer to cash out
7/10/2014 - ISIL has added a lucrative new business line in Iraq: oil smuggling
7/10/2014 - Indian mobile operators are now charging users like cable companies, one site at a time
7/10/2014 - Marc Andreessen’s first six months on Twitter were unbelievably epic
7/10/2014 - What drill and rote learning have to do with confidence
7/10/2014 - The budget mostly tinkered, offered little by way of substantive change
7/10/2014 - The budget just killed a massive, lucrative segment of India’s mutual fund industry
7/10/2014 - France blames its ugly factory data on workers taking too many four-day weekends
7/10/2014 - This is why there are so many statues of soccer players around the world
7/10/2014 - The deluge of lawsuits over China’s missing metals has begun
7/10/2014 - How to avoid having to fire your best employees
7/10/2014 - The genius of building a maze at a city’s center
7/10/2014 - The complete guide to working out before work
7/10/2014 - Cheaper TVs, more colleges—here is how Arun Jaitley’s budget will affect your life
7/10/2014 - The unraveling of American Apparel
7/10/2014 - How and where India’s government will spend its money during the coming year
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s budget, Slim diversifies, office narcisists thrive, Martha Stewart’s drone
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—India’s budget, Slim diversifies, office narcisists thrive, Martha Stewart’s drone
7/10/2014 - Instagram’s ambiguous takedown highlights the challenge for foreign apps in China
7/10/2014 - All the things that still need to be decided about the new BRICS development bank
7/10/2014 - Lucrative Chinese product placements create a “Transformers”-sized headache
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—India’s budget, Japan and China disappoint, successful workplace narcissists, Martha Stewart’s drone
7/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s budget, Japan and China disappoint, successful workplace narcissists, Martha Stewart’s drone
7/9/2014 - Here are the predictions that India’s newspapers made before the budget
7/9/2014 - The state of the Indian economy—in six charts
7/9/2014 - The real picture of India’s finances is terrifying
7/9/2014 - Shakespeare to Stiglitz—the poets and philosophers quoted in India’s budget speeches
7/9/2014 - Microsoft’s AI predicted an Argentina v. Germany World Cup final—and so did this nine-year-old
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—India’s budget, Snowden’s asylum, banking benchmarks, Harry Potter
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s budget, Snowden’s asylum, banking benchmarks, Harry Potter
7/9/2014 - Here’s where you feel it in your body when your team wins or loses in the World Cup
7/9/2014 - The $3.7 billion President Obama is seeking won’t stop the surge of desperate child migrants
7/9/2014 - Advertisers value Americans almost 110 times more than Indians
7/9/2014 - Four of the 10 richest Singaporeans are expats saving millions in taxes
7/9/2014 - How a team of amateurs is saving a NASA zombie spacecraft
7/9/2014 - The time is nigh for Bank of America’s mortgage reckoning
7/9/2014 - Deals, dynasties, and drones: The Sun Valley media conference has begun
7/9/2014 - The web is nice, but news sites need native apps too
7/9/2014 - Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are so successful, in one word
7/9/2014 - India just published its most explicitly pro-markets policy document in history
7/9/2014 - Just because teenagers are good at math doesn’t mean they can manage money
7/9/2014 - Car insurance companies want to track your every move—and you’re going to let them
7/9/2014 - How to love exercise—even if you think you hate it
7/9/2014 - If you want to impress a stranger, here are the body language mistakes to avoid
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s election, India’s growth, China’s inflation, Seoul’s insect hotels
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—America edition—Indonesia’s election, India’s growth, China’s inflation, Seoul’s insect hotels
7/9/2014 - Britain’s big banks echo China on Hong Kong’s democracy movement
7/9/2014 - YouTube campaign songs could signal the winner of Indonesia’s contested presidential election
7/9/2014 - Indonesia’s army didn’t want a close presidential election—but it got one
7/9/2014 - The RBI’s stringent rules on recurring payments are driving away India’s software companies
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s election, China’s inflation, Taylor Swiftonomics, Seoul insect hotels
7/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Indonesia’s election, China’s inflation, Taylor Swiftonomics, Seoul insect hotels
7/8/2014 - How the Indian Census turned me into an invisible housewife
7/8/2014 - Sadananda Gowda reversed an incorrigible trend—lavishing sops on the rail minister’s constituency
7/8/2014 - China says it will punish journalists just for talking about “state secrets”
7/8/2014 - How to build a banking benchmark that’s not rigged
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s election, Tesla’s bad luck, Taylor Swift’s economics, insect hotels
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Indonesia’s election, Tesla’s bad luck, Taylor Swift’s economics, insect hotels
7/8/2014 - The private investment push into railways is not new—look at this 2012 blueprint
7/8/2014 - Internet stocks got crushed again for inexplicable reasons
7/8/2014 - Yet another al Qaeda offshoot is proving dangerously effective, this time in Somalia
7/8/2014 - What to look for in the biggest banks’ woeful second-quarter earnings
7/8/2014 - The simple solution to the recruiting war between banks and private equity
7/8/2014 - In defense of Taylor Swift
7/8/2014 - Microsoft has perfectly predicted this stage of the World Cup and it thinks Brazil is finished
7/8/2014 - A ton of new job openings in the US could be a victory for the Fed
7/8/2014 - The world’s largest gambling hub may be the next center for anti-Beijing protests
7/8/2014 - The Vatican Bank is seeking penitence by wiping out its profit
7/8/2014 - How the Tour de France stays online over three weeks, 21 stages, and 3,664 km
7/8/2014 - Writing tips from the CIA’s ruthless style manual
7/8/2014 - Children aren’t worth very much—that’s why we no longer make many
7/8/2014 - The real reasons US banks are getting out of the remittances business
7/8/2014 - The New York Times once thought cartoons were going to save the US economy
7/8/2014 - The key numbers that leap out of Sadananda Gowda’s rail budget
7/8/2014 - The less food on your plate, the more you’ll enjoy it
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Samsung’s profit plunge, UK manufacturing dips, Cuba’s senator set-up, remote-control contraception
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Samsung’s profit plunge, UK manufacturing dips, Cuba’s senator set-up, remote-control contraception
7/8/2014 - Wi-fi, better food, cleaner stations, shopping—what India’s rail minister just promised passengers
7/8/2014 - The standard bearer of America’s cupcake boom just ran out of dough
7/8/2014 - Chinese students are buying their way into school by pretending to be elite athletes
7/8/2014 - Take a deep breath—the weakening typhoon Neoguri is unlikely to cause another Fukushima
7/8/2014 - Carrefour’s India exit has little to do with the government’s reservations on retail
7/8/2014 - Samsung’s dismal earnings are an omen for the entire smartphone industry
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Japan’s super typhoon, Samsung’s profit plunge, Iraq’s power vacuum, heroin marketing
7/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s super typhoon, Samsung’s profit plunge, Iraq’s power vacuum, heroin marketing
7/7/2014 - India’s power deficit isn’t as dire as you’d think
7/7/2014 - Box just surprisingly raised $150 million but still intends to go public this year
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s typhoon, French jobs, Iraq’s power vacuum, heroin marketing
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Japan’s typhoon, French jobs, Iraq’s power vacuum, heroin marketing
7/7/2014 - The tragic, explosive crash of a stolen Tesla
7/7/2014 - No matter how the Kremlin spins it, Russia is still losing its battle with stagflation
7/7/2014 - Brasil, aprenda com a Índia: Um constrangimento atlético pode derrotar um governo em campo
7/7/2014 - Uber’s price war with taxis also pits it against its own drivers
7/7/2014 - The key to Pizza Hut’s revival in the US is apparently chicken
7/7/2014 - Fewer crashes greet users as Indian Railways gets its act together on internet ticketing
7/7/2014 - If not for M&A and IPOs, bank results would be even more shabby this year
7/7/2014 - Surprisingly, the company behind Candy Crush is proving its early doubters wrong
7/7/2014 - Debt collectors manipulated your mood for decades before Facebook—they just never told you about it
7/7/2014 - Libya is releasing only a trickle of its oil exports so prices don’t collapse completely
7/7/2014 - Will France’s gripes about the dollar’s dominance change anything?
7/7/2014 - Get out of Hong Kong before the next pro-democracy protest, HSBC tells investors
7/7/2014 - Relax, there is no ban on Google Docs in India
7/7/2014 - Japan wants a $90 billion floating train for commuters who may not exist
7/7/2014 - Your smartphone’s short-lived battery could make you an airline security risk
7/7/2014 - How to remember all your passwords and keep them safe
7/7/2014 - China’s army celebrated the Hong Kong handover with gift bags, fruit carvings, and machine guns
7/7/2014 - The most valuable keywords to have on a tech resume
7/7/2014 - Eight lessons you can learn about the global economy by visiting America’s busiest seaport
7/7/2014 - How heroin baggies are marketed like iPhones
7/7/2014 - The 40-year evolution of the American stock market in a single GIF
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s super typhoon, Archer Daniels Capri-Sun, “Transfomers” China success, unfinished Picketty
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s super typhoon, Archer Daniels Capri-Sun, “Transfomers” China success, unfinished Picketty
7/7/2014 - China’s vast urban migration is creating a new measles epidemic
7/7/2014 - Why the abysmal “Transformers” sequel is about to become China’s top grossing film of all time
7/7/2014 - The deadliest vehicle on the roads, and six other sobering facts about crime in India
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine showdown, France vs. dollar, “Transfomers” China success, unfinished Picketty
7/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine showdown, France vs. dollar, “Transfomers” China success, unfinished Picketty
7/6/2014 - As fakes unnerve India’s art market, the trade is pushing for an antiquated solution
7/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Afghanistan’s president, “Transfomers” success, data against pollution, ice-cream segregation
7/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Afghanistan’s president, “Transfomers” success, data against pollution, ice-cream segregation
7/6/2014 - A company’s best dealmaking asset is a 65-year-old CEO
7/6/2014 - If Bollywood is going to steal ideas, it should at least do so legally
7/6/2014 - How IBM is using big data to fix Beijing’s pollution crisis
7/6/2014 - Carlos Slim’s domination of Mexico’s telecom industry is coming to an end
7/6/2014 - What universities have in common with record labels
7/6/2014 - You can no longer buy bus tickets with cash in London
7/6/2014 - Only Cristina Fernandez knows whether Argentina will default again or not
7/6/2014 - Why chicken is better than beef
7/5/2014 - YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video
7/5/2014 - Egypt’s new ruler wants to be international lenders’ favorite autocrat
7/5/2014 - This is (probably) the best World Cup ever
7/5/2014 - Why did the Queen use whisky instead of champagne to launch her new warship?
7/5/2014 - Why Iran has a progressive drug rehab program alongside death sentences for drug crimes
7/5/2014 - Don’t ask a young opera singer these three questions
7/5/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—America’s World Cup, wedding costs, Hong Kong’s soul, the longevity gap
7/5/2014 - A simple solution to the crisis in Crimea: Let Russia buy it
7/5/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—America’s World Cup, wedding costs, Hong Kong’s soul, the longevity gap
7/4/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—America’s World Cup, wedding costs, Hong Kong’s soul, the longevity gap
7/4/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—America’s World Cup, wedding costs, Hong Kong’s soul, the longevity gap
7/4/2014 - For a taste of Beijing pollution, head to California on July 4
7/4/2014 - Why Apple just hired a Swiss-watch salesman
7/4/2014 - Happy Independence Day, America! You’re celebrating two days late
7/4/2014 - Indian railways need business management principles, not budget speeches
7/4/2014 - Google can’t seem to decide whether to forget things or not
7/4/2014 - Millennials don’t need your condescension, they need higher wages
7/4/2014 - The world can’t seem to get enough German luxury cars
7/4/2014 - Those with the highest IQs grow up in the country and move to the city
7/4/2014 - It’s time for Americans to start thinking about how they wish to die
7/4/2014 - You soon may not need citizenship to vote in the US; just become a New Yorker
7/4/2014 - It will take the world’s biggest divorce to learn who owns the most expensive real estate in the US
7/4/2014 - China may never embrace democracy, but American flag products rule on Taobao
7/4/2014 - Pope Francis’s China conundrum—traditional Catholics or Communist Party Catholics
7/4/2014 - The only good penalty kick strategy is not having a strategy
7/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Second NSA leaker, “Zero Hour” in Iraq, HK democracy arrests, the plants are listening
7/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Second NSA leaker, “Zero Hour” in Iraq, HK democracy arrests, the plants are listening
7/4/2014 - The NSA may have another leaker on its hands
7/4/2014 - Mumbai landmark Express Towers changes hands in Rs870 crore deal
7/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Second NSA leaker, “Zero Hour” in Iraq, Amazon tax probe, robot selfies
7/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Second NSA leaker, “Zero Hour” in Iraq, Amazon tax probe, robot selfies
7/3/2014 - China-South Korea relations may be better than ever, but they’ll never be that great
7/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Modi to Kashmir, “Zero Hour” in Iraq, American jobs, Robot selfies
7/3/2014 - Obama hints at more regulation to prevent US banks backsliding to their old risk-happy ways
7/3/2014 - Facebook’s social experiments appear far more extensive than its now-infamous emotions study
7/3/2014 - Gold, cars, and smartphones—India’s changing consumption pattern in six charts
7/3/2014 - Mario Draghi’s idea of richer ECB communication is to hold fewer press conferences
7/3/2014 - How 3D-printing 10 buildings in a day could help China clean up mountains of waste
7/3/2014 - Amazon’s strategy in streaming television is beginning to take shape
7/3/2014 - Despite the jobs recovery, Americans are completely justified in feeling cranky
7/3/2014 - Goldman Sachs’ short-term outlook is not looking pretty
7/3/2014 - China’s version of PayPal is mounting one of the biggest challenges to Chinese banks
7/3/2014 - Is Google trying to sabotage the “right to be forgotten”?
7/3/2014 - The reason behind the universal appeal of tattoos
7/3/2014 - The most important charts from the terrific US jobs report
7/3/2014 - Sweden’s hawkish central bank just morphed into a dove
7/3/2014 - The only thing Facebook got to understand with its experiment is how Facebook works
7/3/2014 - The terrific US jobs report for June in two simple charts
7/3/2014 - The frothiest segment of the US beer market: Kegs and barrels
7/3/2014 - The US economy added 288,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1%
7/3/2014 - Things get weird when objects get hooked up to the internet
7/3/2014 - Mobile advertising will finally get the spending it deserves—in 2018
7/3/2014 - Google’s Street View cameras are touring museums and taking weird selfies by accident
7/3/2014 - The completely serious decline of the Hollywood comedy
7/3/2014 - Pakistan couldn’t have picked a worse time to sell its national airline
7/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—US jobs bonanza, Obama’s unfinished business, Brazil’s football boost, Beyoncé out-earns Jay-Z
7/3/2014 - Riots? What riots? Samsung adds another billion-dollar smartphone factory in Vietnam
7/3/2014 - Asia is catching up with the West on obesity, and Malaysia is leading the way
7/3/2014 - Indian teens are having dangerous sex, while we dilly-dally about values
7/3/2014 - The United States is restricting the only visa made for the new world order: the L-1
7/3/2014 - The US military is already using Facebook to track your mood
7/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asian diplomacy, US jobs bonanza, Obama’s unfinished business, Beyoncé out-earns Jay-Z
7/2/2014 - Don’t count on farms to generate more jobs
7/2/2014 - Mumbai’s brand new $700-million metro is leaking water
7/2/2014 - Here is a rare chart in which India is outperforming China
7/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Asian diplomacy, US jobs bonanza, Sarkozy’s bust, Malaysia’s fat
7/2/2014 - These are the World Cup countries that shout “goooaaaaal!” the loudest on Facebook
7/2/2014 - The most important charts to see before the US’s giant June jobs report
7/2/2014 - One in six Americans are going hungry—ugly fruits and veggies may be the solution
7/2/2014 - Sanctions or not, Putin is under attack by forces that no one controls
7/2/2014 - The real test for soccer in the US begins now
7/2/2014 - Colleges think students should take classes in dating and romance
7/2/2014 - Investors responded to Hong Kong’s huge pro-democracy protests with a great big “meh”
7/2/2014 - Jamie Dimon’s cancer news spotlights JPMorgan’s management bench
7/2/2014 - Facebook may finally have found a way to make money from poor people
7/2/2014 - The company that thinks it can finally solve the problem of business cards
7/2/2014 - How to turn a security guard into a skilled worker
7/2/2014 - A petting zoo of crystal-encrusted drones has been deemed too dangerous for London
7/2/2014 - The venerable, 80-year tradition of the insanely expensive American wedding
7/2/2014 - China has banned Ramadan for many Muslims in Xinjiang
7/2/2014 - Beijing residents will have to wait at least another 16 years to breathe healthy air
7/2/2014 - For $24 million, New York City could have a floating artificial beach in the Hudson River
7/2/2014 - Behold the biggest day-one tech IPO pops—and busts—of 2014
7/2/2014 - There’s never been a better time to use a miracle food additive made from bacteria poop
7/2/2014 - The most heart-warming economic chart you’ll see today
7/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Jamie Dimon’s cancer, Hong Kong arrests, UK house prices, World Cup abstinence
7/2/2014 - Italy’s comedian-turned-politician has helped bring back measles
7/2/2014 - Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy protests in a decade are just making Beijing more strident
7/2/2014 - A requiem to Orkut, where I met my husband
7/2/2014 - Alibaba boss Jack Ma says he has never used Taobao or Alipay, and doesn’t plan to
7/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Hong Kong arrests, Jamie Dimon’s cancer, UK investigates Facebook, World Cup abstinence
7/2/2014 - It’s déjà vu as the whiff of a scandal fills India’s 4G airwaves
7/1/2014 - Actually, the nuclear family is on the decline in India
7/1/2014 - 92 women are raped in India every day, but crime data offers some silver linings
7/1/2014 - You can make a state-of-the-art hospital out of bamboo
7/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Renzi’s aunt, Twitter’s CFO, Erdogan’s ambitions, Abe’s myths
7/1/2014 - All of the teams that banned sex at the World Cup have been eliminated
7/1/2014 - The backlash against T-Mobile in the US is officially underway
7/1/2014 - Netflix’s massive, untapped opportunity to become a babysitter for your kids
7/1/2014 - Twitter’s third CFO in two years could take it in a new direction
7/1/2014 - Fox has killed its plan to kill TV pilot season
7/1/2014 - An entire island nation is preparing to evacuate to Fiji before they sink into the Pacific
7/1/2014 - How to watch the US vs. Belgium World Cup match for free online
7/1/2014 - Don’t believe the people telling you to freak out over this “ISIL” map
7/1/2014 - The “internet of things” may not always need an internet connection
7/1/2014 - Twitter’s next trick is to prove it can actually become a stable, grown-up company
7/1/2014 - 99% of the plastic we throw in the ocean has mysteriously disappeared
7/1/2014 - The solution to India’s onion price inflation is an obvious one. Hint: it’s not the hoarders
7/1/2014 - How to raise a child who will get into Harvard
7/1/2014 - Twitter just hired Goldman Sachs’ former top tech banker
7/1/2014 - Stop freaking out about student grade inflation: it’s not a bad thing
7/1/2014 - PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi says her colleagues help her raise her kids
7/1/2014 - Millennials want to see the world—and know they can afford it
7/1/2014 - BNP Paribas’s record-breaking fine, by the numbers
7/1/2014 - A monument to a dead despot just triumphed over a chair as the design of the year
7/1/2014 - Cameroon is investigating allegations its World Cup team threw a game against Croatia
7/1/2014 - Riding toward emancipation with exposed ankles—how bicycles changed women’s lives
7/1/2014 - A startup’s success rate falls by 19% if the investors are college buddies
7/1/2014 - What Hong Kong’s rain-drenched protests against Beijing look like
7/1/2014 - Why cheap chicken is bad news for South Africa
7/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Hong Kong’s protest, BNP’s guilty bounce, Sarkozy’s detention, donkey internet
7/1/2014 - After the worst show in 12 years, Indian IPOs are poised for a comeback
7/1/2014 - Hong Kong protesters blame China for rising inequality and economic woes
7/1/2014 - Oh, Narendra Modi, it’s high time to accept English as India’s lingua franca
7/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Hong Kong’s protest, BNP’s guilty plea, farewell Orkut, donkey internet