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2014 May
5/31/2014 - Call it the curious case of the corporate raider, the pro golfer and the gambler
5/31/2014 - Getting elected Egypt’s president is nothing compared to fixing its economy
5/31/2014 - Four horrific threats to humanity’s future—and one terrifying mystery
5/31/2014 - Don’t believe brokers, the government, or Piketty: Your property values won’t grow faster than your paycheck
5/31/2014 - A lesson for European leaders from Italy’s prime minister: How to buy votes
5/30/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—False futurism, Planet Starbucks, anti-vaxxers, hurrah for Habsburgs
5/30/2014 - How to stop technology from stealing your sleep
5/30/2014 - 200 tons of illegally caught Atlantic bluefin tuna show how we’re driving these fish to extinction
5/30/2014 - US lawmakers have taken their first step toward rolling back marijuana prohibition
5/30/2014 - If Siemens is pledging to protect French jobs, it has a funny way of showing it
5/30/2014 - Small businesses have a lot to learn from Mumbai’s flower vendors
5/30/2014 - Putin’s Ukraine gambit has vaporized $25 billion in hedge fund investments in Russia
5/30/2014 - How I found feminism in Isla Vista
5/30/2014 - Steve Ballmer can easily afford the LA Clippers because he fired himself from Microsoft
5/30/2014 - When net neutrality backfires: Chile just killed free access to Wikipedia and Facebook
5/30/2014 - China’s leaders say they’re not stimulating the economy, but they’re just doing it quietly
5/30/2014 - The next chapter in the Snowden leaks may unfold in a New York museum
5/30/2014 - 20% of Europeans have never used the internet
5/30/2014 - Only a fraction of what Reliance pays for Network 18 will go to its founders
5/30/2014 - The “miracle” berry that could replace sugar isn’t likely to do so any time soon
5/30/2014 - The public shame of soaring US student debt
5/30/2014 - Here’s a better name for Google’s driverless vehicle: a driver
5/30/2014 - Apple could unveil a shockingly different-looking Mac OS next week
5/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ballmer’s a baller, Google’s forgetting requests, Indonesia tests Cadbury, villains gone soft
5/30/2014 - Two big labs step back from the most promising next-generation battery
5/30/2014 - The tech sector’s takeover of major league sports is picking up speed
5/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Scotland’s independence, Japan’s economy, African debt, Disney villains gone soft
5/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Scotland’s independence, striking Brazilians, African debt, Dots 2.0
5/29/2014 - The volume just got cranked up in a crucial dispute over golden oldies songs
5/29/2014 - American teens are having fewer babies than ever (but still too many)
5/29/2014 - The tool every business traveler wants—but will never get
5/29/2014 - The rise of S-M-L clothing sizes is good for customers’ self-esteem, but bad for fit
5/29/2014 - Wall Street’s trading business looks depressingly bad
5/29/2014 - Why US companies can earn $51 billion in the Cayman Islands even though its GDP is only $3 billion
5/29/2014 - The secret origin of the Waffle Taco has been revealed
5/29/2014 - Earnings reports are about to get a lot more useful, if you read the footnotes
5/29/2014 - In case of a Russian invasion, Estonia is uploading its government to the cloud
5/29/2014 - Twitter’s existential crisis could already be over
5/29/2014 - The markets are right to ignore the ugly US GDP report
5/29/2014 - Thailand’s military is cracking down on social media, street protests, and illicit hardwood
5/29/2014 - Stop asking if Piketty was right or wrong; not everyone will ever agree anyway
5/29/2014 - Yes, Apple is finally buying Beats. Now what?
5/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—US GDP shrinkage, Costco results, galactic mergers, your brain on porn
5/29/2014 - How a simple bag is rescuing the world’s black-eyed peas
5/29/2014 - It’s not a man bra—it’s a wearable technology optimization device
5/29/2014 - Why Africa’s debt downgrades are good news for Africans
5/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—US shrinkage, Apple-Beats salad, Glaxo bribe reimbursement, your brain on porn
5/28/2014 - Scrapping DVDs is good for the environment—but not as good as you’d think
5/28/2014 - Google just confirmed everything people fear about diversity in tech
5/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—France’s tax pickle, GE’s Alstom bid, World Cup winners, vampire theories
5/28/2014 - Apple will buy Beats for $3 billion
5/28/2014 - How to freeze people and bring them back to life
5/28/2014 - India’s modern retailers are bleeding money trying to beat corner stores
5/28/2014 - The markets smell more QE, and not from the Fed
5/28/2014 - McDonald’s radical new weapon in the breakfast wars: “We actually cook our food”
5/28/2014 - South Korea consumes more steel per capita than both China and Japan. A lot more
5/28/2014 - Wealth inequality skeptics are forgetting the rich keep giant piles of money offshore
5/28/2014 - By the numbers, the rise of Europe’s far-right looks like a trend, not a blip
5/28/2014 - Goldman has cut 10% of traders in its key trading business since 2010
5/28/2014 - LEDs transform shipyard cranes into a giant, mesmerizing ballet
5/28/2014 - This tiny deal in Singapore puts Alibaba a small step closer to global e-commerce domination
5/28/2014 - Trucks are saving the US economy
5/28/2014 - Mary Meeker’s 2014 internet trends report: all the slides plus highlights
5/28/2014 - Here are eight totally bogus correlations between the World Cup and economics
5/28/2014 - The anxiety of Paris, captured in a single department store
5/28/2014 - The cold logic behind Elon Musk’s $5 billion gigafactory gamble
5/28/2014 - Real estate execs are making insane money in China but the government wants it kept quiet
5/28/2014 - The Thai junta briefly blocked Facebook in a dry run for a social media blackout
5/28/2014 - The euro zone’s zombie banking system needs to be brought back to life
5/28/2014 - Parents, don’t cover your baby in tracking devices, no matter how paranoid you might be
5/28/2014 - Comcast promised poor Americans cheap internet, but most of them didn’t get it
5/28/2014 - Avoid these three traps and become a more decisive leader
5/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ukraine fighting, Alibaba’s postal deal, London’s bad air, insect snacks
5/28/2014 - Banking startup Simple seems to be struggling to sign up active users
5/28/2014 - Citigroup’s simple message about trading: it’s getting worse
5/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine fighting, US troops exit Afghanistan, Detroit demolition bill, insect snacks
5/27/2014 - Watch Skype translate a video conversation in real time
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Corporate food fights, China’s war on pollution, Detroit’s demolition, insect snacks
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Corporate food fights, China’s war on pollution, Detroit’s demolition, insect snacks
5/27/2014 - The ‘smart home’ could be Apple and Google’s chance to do something together again
5/27/2014 - How North Dakotans, Canadians, and Austrians are living more sustainably than the rest of us
5/27/2014 - Anonymous’s first stock tip: Buy the internet company Wall Street hates
5/27/2014 - The nine companies that know more about you than Google or Facebook
5/27/2014 - A uranium price collapse has made mining companies radioactive to investors
5/27/2014 - Risky lending is on the rise again at US banks
5/27/2014 - The wealthy, English-speaking country Starbucks can’t conquer
5/27/2014 - Forget job ads: Zappos wants applicants to hang out on its social network
5/27/2014 - The top 10 US schools for foreign students
5/27/2014 - How do you define “cool?” A new paper tries—and succeeds
5/27/2014 - China’s fight against pollution is good for the air but bad for the economy (for now)
5/27/2014 - Italy—yes, Italy—is now an example for European leaders to admire
5/27/2014 - Some 9/11 souvenirs that would be better than a cheese plate
5/27/2014 - Molecular halal testing has turned up pig DNA in Cadbury’s chocolate
5/27/2014 - A cartographic guide to Starbucks’ global domination
5/27/2014 - Developed countries are making $47 billion a year from forced labor
5/27/2014 - Gap is counting on Americans to spend all day in their yoga pants
5/27/2014 - Chiquita is valued at $1 billion and WhatsApp 19 times that—the numbers that really prove Piketty wrong
5/27/2014 - BuzzFeed is shutting down its traffic partner network ahead of a video push
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Lloyds floats TSB, China-Vietnam naval clash, UK services surge, heavy metal economics
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Lloyds floats TSB, China-Vietnam naval clash, UK services surge, heavy metal economics
5/27/2014 - A New York restaurant has become a flashpoint in our cultural struggle over Google Glass
5/27/2014 - Here’s what happens when you introduce airport-style security to the world’s busiest subway
5/27/2014 - The complete guide to biking to work
5/27/2014 - Nostalgia and tenacity will keep India’s beloved Ambassadors on the roads for years to come
5/27/2014 - Spawning fish are about to make the feud between China and Vietnam more dangerous
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine airstrikes, China-Vietnam naval clash, UK services surge, heavy metal economics
5/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine airstrikes, China-Vietnam naval clash, UK services surge, heavy metal economics
5/26/2014 - The elections show the only hope for the EU is a European Spring
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Pfizer’s bid fizzles, Egypt elections, EU skepticism, heavy metal music
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Pfizer’s bid fizzles, Egypt elections, EU skepticism, heavy metal music
5/26/2014 - What a close read of the Isla Vista shooter’s horrific manifesto, “My Twisted World,” says about his values—and ours
5/26/2014 - This map of countries with al-Qaeda affiliates now includes Nigeria
5/26/2014 - Heavy-metal music is a surprising indicator of countries’ economic health
5/26/2014 - Five significant ways in which India’s new cabinet is different
5/26/2014 - How to talk yourself out of getting an MBA
5/26/2014 - The connected home is going mainstream faster than anybody realizes
5/26/2014 - Apple’s latest “cheap” iPhone for India is baffling
5/26/2014 - A strangely beautiful web comic shows urban Chinese life as a pixelated culture clash
5/26/2014 - We thought trees and fungi were socialist, but they’re actually capitalist
5/26/2014 - Drugs, prostitution and smuggling—Italy’s GDP is about to get much bigger
5/26/2014 - Narendra Modi’s oath-taking: Who’s coming and who’s not
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine’s chocolatier president, BP’s Rosneft deal, Europeans are Euroskeptical, Facebook as religion
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ukraine’s chocolatier president, BP’s Rosneft deal, Europeans are Euroskeptical, Facebook as religion
5/26/2014 - The escalating US-China spying war is McKinsey’s loss and Huawei’s gain
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai coup protests, BP’s Rosneft deal, EU embraces Euroskeptics, Facebook as a religion
5/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Thai coup protests, BP’s Rosneft deal, EU embraces Euroskeptics, Facebook as a religion
5/25/2014 - How to clean up cricket
5/25/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—BP’s Rosneft deal, India’s Ambassador, elections galore, Facebook religion
5/25/2014 - Narendra Modi’s success as India’s prime minister depends on 140 million Muslims
5/25/2014 - Today’s Ukraine election means there will be no war with Russia
5/25/2014 - Instagram is having a contemporary art moment thanks to an artist it once banned
5/25/2014 - A Japanese rice vinegar company is now the world’s undisputed king of pasta sauce
5/25/2014 - Parking in some areas of Beijing now costs more than $160,000
5/25/2014 - At the heart of the Ukraine conflict is a conflict about what actually happened
5/25/2014 - Why France is gloating over Piketty’s alleged errors
5/24/2014 - Strange things are afoot with the US IPO of this Chinese online video company
5/24/2014 - MoMA’s endowment is about the same size as the budget of 150 museums in 1989 combined
5/24/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Coups and elections, the Modi effect, laundry disruption, the case for reparations
5/24/2014 - Royal Caribbean hopes its new super-ship will teach the Chinese to cruise
5/24/2014 - Meet the man making politics in South Africa fun again
5/24/2014 - The Champions League final is a battle for the soul of a city: Madrid
5/24/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Coups and elections, the Modi effect, laundry disruption, the case for reparations
5/23/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Coups and elections, the Modi effect, laundry disruption, the case for reparations
5/23/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Coups and elections, the Modi effect, laundry disruption, the case for reparations
5/23/2014 - So much for being “bossy”—women are called “pushy” twice as much as men
5/23/2014 - Two of the art world’s hottest names are fighting on Instagram
5/23/2014 - Are there major mistakes in the bombshell economics book of the year?
5/23/2014 - HP’s problem in one chart: Printing is now its biggest source of profit
5/23/2014 - These shelters clould bring some cool back to smoking
5/23/2014 - “Flash Boys” may have won its subjects more than just some good publicity
5/23/2014 - The most important 10 economic charts from a week of pretty good news
5/23/2014 - Build your own banking scandal news story (Barclays edition)
5/23/2014 - Credit ratings agencies just realized that climate change is a threat to the world economy
5/23/2014 - You might cry the whole way but you can learn binary search in one day
5/23/2014 - Elon Musk says he lost a multi-billion-dollar contract when SpaceX didn’t hire a public official
5/23/2014 - The Amazon of India is not Flipkart—it’s Amazon
5/23/2014 - Every day, commuters make Manhattan and Washington nearly twice their size
5/23/2014 - An anti-Obama dentist just bought up the best new Democrat domain names
5/23/2014 - The 9/11 Memorial has banned soap, gum chewing, and a lot of other things
5/23/2014 - One of these defense projects could become bigger than the internet
5/23/2014 - Thailand’s coup d’état has a social media blindspot
5/23/2014 - Meet the new Asia order—Chiran, Japindia, and Philnambodia
5/23/2014 - You should fear background checks even if you’ve done nothing wrong
5/23/2014 - America’s flight from the coasts summarized in two maps and two charts
5/23/2014 - America has a new subprime problem: cars
5/23/2014 - How Ukrainian arms-dealing connects to Syria’s bloody civil war
5/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thailand risks sanctions, NSA bugs Afghanistan, Ukraine soldiers killed, the Pope shuns Facebook
5/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Thailand risks sanctions, NSA bugs Afghanistan, Ukraine soldiers killed, the Pope shuns Facebook
5/23/2014 - The post-PC revolution is still on track
5/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—JD.com IPO, HP job cuts, Thailand risks sanctions, the Pope shuns Facebook
5/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—JD.com IPO, HP job cuts, Thailand risks sanctions, the Pope shuns Facebook
5/22/2014 - Thai investors have learned to sell on the protests, buy on the coup
5/22/2014 - A jellyfish processing plant would really like it if Americans ate more jellyfish
5/22/2014 - Americans are leaving their biggest metros, but immigrants keep them growing
5/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—JD.com’s IPO, trouble in Ukraine, Turkey’s rate cut, Farts candy
5/22/2014 - Canada can’t force the EU to buy its murdered baby seals
5/22/2014 - Gap’s new creative director has her work cut out for her
5/22/2014 - This is what cable consolidation looks like
5/22/2014 - The New York Times thinks its ad about “Islamic terror” is not “gratuitously offensive”
5/22/2014 - The Dutch are perfecting the controversial art of the voting-booth selfie
5/22/2014 - Taipei now has the most expensive housing in the world—and there’s not much it can do to fix that
5/22/2014 - Indian e-retailers are so scared of Amazon that they’re all joining forces
5/22/2014 - The hedge-fund billionaire leading Sears looks like he’s stripping it for parts
5/22/2014 - Americans have finally figured out that adding lemonade to beer makes it more drinkable
5/22/2014 - A smoking ban in Asia’s gambling mecca could be bad news for the casinos
5/22/2014 - Even white icing has artificial color in it
5/22/2014 - Is Harvard really better than Yale? This startup may have the answer
5/22/2014 - Alibaba and JD.com are battling for a huge emerging market: poorer, inland China
5/22/2014 - A short history of three-wheeled cop cars
5/22/2014 - Best Buy would also love Apple to unveil a new product
5/22/2014 - Why the pope is on Twitter but not Facebook
5/22/2014 - How to follow Thailand’s 12th coup as it happens
5/22/2014 - The polls are open in Europe—will voters actually show up?
5/22/2014 - What managers do at a company that’s trying to replace them with software
5/22/2014 - What a coup d’état looks like in Thailand
5/22/2014 - Forget big suburban campuses, innovative corporations are moving downtown
5/22/2014 - Soccer star Neymar is spawning thousands of tiny mullet-hawks
5/22/2014 - A shopping list for Apple’s post-Beats era
5/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Euroskeptic elections, bombs in Xinjiang, pasta sauce M&A, Axl Rose appreciation
5/22/2014 - By the time Kashmir lifted its texting ban, Kashmiris had moved on to WhatsApp
5/22/2014 - Vietnam’s riot bill—compensation now, or the loss of billions in investment later
5/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—EU elections, explosions in Xinjiang, China and Japan PMI, laundry apps
5/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—EU elections, explosions in Xinjiang, China and Japan PMI, laundry apps
5/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Russia’s gas deal, eBay’s data breach, EU elections, laundry apps
5/21/2014 - Americans should stop saying they are so busy, because it’s not true
5/21/2014 - The simple, brilliant logic behind AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV
5/21/2014 - Target’s traffic still hasn’t recovered from the giant data breach
5/21/2014 - British TV hasn’t changed in 50 years—and that’s the secret of its success
5/21/2014 - Why Instagram wiped every recurring meeting from its product team’s schedule
5/21/2014 - No supermarket will ever sell all the varieties of our favorite fruits
5/21/2014 - Germany still can’t forgive McDonald’s for taking its €1 cheeseburger away
5/21/2014 - Some Russian tech entrepreneurs would love it if their government blocked Facebook and Twitter
5/21/2014 - Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” is the most streamed song of all time on Spotify
5/21/2014 - Another reason to fear a Chinese housing crash: 14% of China’s urban jobs are in real estate
5/21/2014 - Remembering the brilliantly fractured designer of “Psycho”
5/21/2014 - Hong Kong’s anti-corruption regulator is the latest to target JP Morgan Chase
5/21/2014 - Tiffany is betting on a collection that features hardly any diamonds
5/21/2014 - Dissing Windows leaves China without many good OS options
5/21/2014 - After more than a decade, China and Russia have inked a gas deal
5/21/2014 - This is the new show Netflix is most excited about
5/21/2014 - Here are the countries where Facebook will add its next billion users
5/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China-Russia gas deal, Nigeria terror attack, Thai army talks, drunken fish leaders
5/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—China-Russia gas deal, Nigeria terror attack, Thai army talks, drunken fish leaders
5/21/2014 - The future of digital music may hinge on Elvis
5/21/2014 - The world is getting high on synthetic drugs like meow-meow, spice and V8
5/21/2014 - The average London home gained enough value in the past six months to put a kid through university
5/21/2014 - Why house prices are a problem for the government, not central banks
5/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai election request, Nigeria bomb attack, Japan exports disappoint, drunken fish leaders
5/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai election request, Nigeria bomb attack, Japan exports disappoint, drunken fish leaders
5/20/2014 - Varanasi shows Gandhian methods alone don’t win elections
5/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—GM’s recall, German immigration, JD.com’s IPO, drunk fish
5/20/2014 - Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 3 makes the case for a bigger iPad
5/20/2014 - If these customers like your product, go back and try again
5/20/2014 - Boutique M&A advisory firm Lazard scores boost from AT&T-DirectTV deal
5/20/2014 - American workers might finally be about to get a raise
5/20/2014 - The Indian prime minister’s office just threw away 1.24 million Twitter followers
5/20/2014 - Twitter doesn’t have a growth problem. It has a perception problem
5/20/2014 - You won’t believe this, but some big banks may have broken the law again
5/20/2014 - Seven of the world’s most unusual bus stops are in this small Austrian town
5/20/2014 - Africa’s collective GDP is at least a third larger than officials say it is
5/20/2014 - Here are the ways artisans are using today’s technologies to create real things
5/20/2014 - Connected cars face one big problem: staying connected
5/20/2014 - Americans hate their cable TV and internet providers more than any other industry
5/20/2014 - Riots, a missing plane, and a coup are wrecking Southeast Asia’s tourism sector
5/20/2014 - The complete guide to fighting jet lag
5/20/2014 - You can blame student debt for America’s inequality and shrinking middle class
5/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thailand’s martial law, Vodafone’s decline, Putin in Shanghai, engagement ring selfies
5/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thailand’s martial law, Vodafone’s decline, Putin in Shanghai, engagement ring selfies
5/20/2014 - Lloyd Blankfein on the future of Goldman Sachs
5/20/2014 - The obscenity trial that made H. R. Giger an icon for punk rock and free speech
5/20/2014 - What “martial law” in Thailand really means—censorship, selfies, and uncertainty
5/20/2014 - China is putting $2 billion into fighting its neocolonialist image in Africa
5/20/2014 - The French and Italians are squabbling over Chinese tourists, via Club Med
5/20/2014 - What Obama and Modi know: India needs the US as much as the US needs India
5/20/2014 - This startup wants to give Bangalore a taste of being Bangalored
5/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thailand’s martial law, Credit Suisse’s plea, Putin in Shanghai, Twitter lexicographers
5/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Thailand’s martial law, Credit Suisse’s plea, Putin in Shanghai, Twitter lexicographers
5/19/2014 - The US indictment of five Chinese army officers is really about redefining “cyberspying”
5/19/2014 - If you have a preconceived idea it’s probably already been done before
5/19/2014 - How to build a luxury car out of clay
5/19/2014 - What GoPro means when it calls itself a media company
5/19/2014 - What Credit Suisse’s guilty plea for tax evasion means
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—AstraZeneca’s snub, Africa’s record investment, Vatican’s crackdown, Twitter lexicographers
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—AstraZeneca’s snub, Africa’s record investment, Vatican’s crackdown, Twitter lexicographers
5/19/2014 - Want to know where the biggest drinkers live in London? There’s a map for that
5/19/2014 - This chart is a top concern for global investors right now
5/19/2014 - Here are the surprising technologies and tools of independent films
5/19/2014 - Mao Zedong’s favorite car is now a luxury limo with personal AC and massage functions
5/19/2014 - Here’s what’s left of the team trying to “save the New York Times”
5/19/2014 - Threatening to fire workers doesn’t make them more productive
5/19/2014 - It’s not just “Miss”—”Mr” is about to become obsolete as well
5/19/2014 - Canadian craftsmen bring a new artistic approach to the slopes
5/19/2014 - It’s not you—airplane food is bad, and there’s a reason for it
5/19/2014 - America’s most powerful non-profit—the NFL—could ruin the AT&T-DirecTV deal
5/19/2014 - Maps are now being created by communities leveraging cloud technology
5/19/2014 - Narendra Modi’s already been conducting diplomacy via Twitter
5/19/2014 - Are a third of China’s bank loans sitting on a ticking property time bomb?
5/19/2014 - One deaf artist’s innovation on human communication
5/19/2014 - The next YouTube could be a site where people watch other people play video games
5/19/2014 - Ryanair just reported its first fall in profit in five years, so why are its shares soaring?
5/19/2014 - A one-day ticket to Disneyland could soon set you back $100
5/19/2014 - The economy is getting sticky in Teflon Thailand
5/19/2014 - China, Russia, and Iran are having a friendly get-together to sort out security in Asia
5/19/2014 - Israel’s housing bubble is glaringly obvious
5/19/2014 - One day, we’ll be grateful to Jill Abramson for being so pushy
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, drinkable suntan lotion
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, drinkable suntan lotion
5/19/2014 - Piketty’s big flaw? Capitalism isn’t the same around the world
5/19/2014 - Strongmen in Libya and Ukraine are spiking global oil prices
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, drinkable suntan lotion
5/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, drinkable suntan lotion
5/18/2014 - Corruption in India is a parallel system, and a new parliament won’t stop it
5/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, Godzilla’s anatomy
5/18/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—AT&T buys DirecTV, Chinese flee Vietnam, Modi’s obstacles, Godzilla’s anatomy
5/18/2014 - AT&T and DirecTV: a new force in the US television industry
5/18/2014 - How to learn by working smarter, not harder
5/18/2014 - What a Modi government might mean for freedom of speech
5/18/2014 - The 5 things India’s new prime minister should do—but nobody will let him
5/18/2014 - Stop comparing Modi to Hitler—India is hardly Weimar Germany
5/18/2014 - These are the posters trying to sway Swiss voters on a $28 hourly minimum wage
5/17/2014 - How “likes” bring votes—Narendra Modi’s campaign on Facebook
5/17/2014 - New York’s mayor is proving Uber right about cab cartels
5/17/2014 - In the next big data breach, crowd-sourcing could find the culprits
5/17/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Modi’s win, China’s bubble, the right to be forgotten, the game of Go
5/17/2014 - Chipotle’s prices are rising faster than expected, but customers don’t care
5/17/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Modi’s win, China’s bubble, the right to be forgotten, the game of Go
5/17/2014 - How Narendra Modi won over a family of staunch Congress supporters—mine
5/17/2014 - Narendra Modi’s gloating victory speech was the wrong way to usher in India’s new era
5/16/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Modi’s win, China’s bubble, the right to be forgotten, the game of Go
5/16/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Modi’s win, China’s bubble, the right to be forgotten, the game of Go
5/16/2014 - A pair of oligarchs is taking charge in eastern Ukraine
5/16/2014 - Why Obama’s victory tweet got far more retweets than Modi’s
5/16/2014 - WWE’s market smackdown is a blow for the cord-cutting future
5/16/2014 - When US companies drug test, they wind up hiring more black people
5/16/2014 - Why investors are angry at Chipotle’s CEOs, even though the company is doing great
5/16/2014 - The Olive Garden’s parent just jettisoned its shrimp inflation problem
5/16/2014 - You really should see these 13 important economic charts of the week
5/16/2014 - Portugal will exit its bailout in better shape, but far from healed
5/16/2014 - Your fitness tracker could soon control your home’s lights, heat, and music
5/16/2014 - An election rout leaves Congress with a shattered dynasty
5/16/2014 - A language app is getting Brazil’s taxi drivers in shape for the World Cup
5/16/2014 - An illustrated guide to our collapsing Antarctic glaciers
5/16/2014 - Narendra Modi is the Indian stock market’s $300 billion man
5/16/2014 - Replacing Don Draper will be AMC’s moment of truth
5/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Modi’s India landslide, China’s bad loans, DSK: The Movie, antique cat memes
5/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Modi’s India landslide, China’s bad loans, DSK: The Movie, antique cat memes
5/16/2014 - No matter what the boss says about flextime, get to work early
5/16/2014 - Four ways Narendra Modi just dramatically upended Indian politics
5/16/2014 - How Alibaba invented the world’s biggest online shopping holiday
5/16/2014 - Naomi Watts will wear a gown by Prudential Financial to Cannes
5/16/2014 - Narendra Modi’s oldest supporter is 114 years old
5/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s election results, World Cup riots, GM’s latest recall, antique cat memes
5/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—India’s election results, World Cup riots, GM’s latest recall, antique cat memes
5/15/2014 - Six takeaways from record turnout in the biggest election in human history
5/15/2014 - How to save the Indian economy—and 20% of humanity
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—India’s election result, World Cup riots, another GM recall, ancient cat pictures
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s election result, World Cup riots, another GM recall, ancient cat pictures
5/15/2014 - Here’s the winner of #IndianElections on Twitter
5/15/2014 - The euro zone’s underwhelming first quarter is part of a grim pattern
5/15/2014 - Your city might start paying you to be late for work
5/15/2014 - Are US broadband providers already violating new open internet rules?
5/15/2014 - Despite the pay gap, women in the US now have as much job security as men
5/15/2014 - The homepage is dead, and the social web has won—even at the New York Times
5/15/2014 - The New York Times’s bloody internal coup claimed the wrong victim
5/15/2014 - Your Chipotle burrito is getting pricier for this one simple reason
5/15/2014 - India election results—a landslide for the BJP and crushing defeat for Congress
5/15/2014 - If you switch from the iPhone, your texts might get lost in Apple’s cloud
5/15/2014 - Finally, instead of re-runs over the summer, new TV shows will premiere all year
5/15/2014 - The best way to close the gender pay gap is to make salaries public
5/15/2014 - At least half of all Château Lafite sold in China is fake
5/15/2014 - Scientists figure out what’s bugging the bees—and how to save them
5/15/2014 - Samsung is becoming a drug firm, and the drug firms should watch out
5/15/2014 - Here’s the clue to predict when the Bank of England will finally hike interest rates
5/15/2014 - Vietnam has a lot to lose if its anti-Chinese riots continue
5/15/2014 - What happens if a drone gets sucked into a passenger jet engine
5/15/2014 - Should public companies be pouring billions of investors’ dollars into venture investing?
5/15/2014 - Yes, it’s a huge deal to have a black journalist run the New York Times
5/15/2014 - Why kids love Scratch: It lets them fail in a way their parents don’t
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—FCC net neutrality, euro zone disappoints, Japan’s surge, Flappy Birds comeback
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—FCC net neutrality, euro zone disappoints, Japan’s surge, Flappy Birds comeback
5/15/2014 - The vote in Varanasi could change art and politics in India forever
5/15/2014 - Japan’s economy actually grew faster than China’s in the first quarter, if only momentarily
5/15/2014 - Putin hopes China can solve Russia’s budget woes, but he’s in for more misery
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Japan’s GDP surge, NY Times editor ousted, Flappy Birds comeback, modern art madness
5/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Japan’s GDP surge, NY Times editor ousted, Flappy Birds comeback, modern art madness
5/14/2014 - Chanel’s Resort 2015 collection combined sharia-friendly layers and a quilted gold gas-can purse
5/14/2014 - The New York Times’ new top editor is another very successful college dropout
5/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Turkey’s mining disaster, fast-food strikes, Pandora shares, zombie apocalypse
5/14/2014 - Turkey is a dangerous place for miners—but there are worse places to dig underground
5/14/2014 - Mark Zuckerberg is 30. Facebook’s users are aging, too
5/14/2014 - All the junk food you love is pricier this year
5/14/2014 - The New York Times’ top editor, Jill Abramson, is out
5/14/2014 - It may be too late for the Chinese government to stop its housing bubble from popping
5/14/2014 - Eastern Europe’s analysts are furiously slashing their economic forecasts
5/14/2014 - These four gadgets are dooming childhoods around the world
5/14/2014 - Twitter’s India head: The people now have power
5/14/2014 - A shy woman by the Taj—or how every South Asian book cover looks the same
5/14/2014 - Investors seem to think Apple buying Beats is good news for Pandora
5/14/2014 - Jack Dorsey’s refreshing memo is a reminder to never sell ideas with someone else’s name
5/14/2014 - Smart earbuds could make wrist-worn trackers obsolete
5/14/2014 - Here’s who’s pushing up the prices of your fancy bourbon
5/14/2014 - In the future you’ll talk to all your devices, and you’ll need different words for each one
5/14/2014 - Tencent reminds the world that Alibaba isn’t the only Chinese tech firm on a hot streak
5/14/2014 - The US will cut taxes on race horses and NASCAR tracks with borrowed money
5/14/2014 - China is cracking down on foreign companies and a British pharma exec is its latest target
5/14/2014 - Posting your kids’ pictures online may set them up for future facial recognition
5/14/2014 - Meet the hedge fund that just took Goldman Sachs’ top tech banker
5/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—More Sony losses, Vietnam’s China riots, Turkey’s mine fire, Zuck’s birthday
5/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—More Sony losses, Vietnam’s China riots, Turkey’s mine fire, Zuck’s birthday
5/14/2014 - Taiwan and Singapore are paying the price for China’s provocative maritime move
5/14/2014 - What Ukraine’s economy looks like without its Russian-speaking regions
5/14/2014 - Why Narendra Modi may not become India’s next prime minister
5/14/2014 - Your guide to how India’s seemingly endless election will actually end
5/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—EU-US inflation, Vietnam protests China, BNP’s mega-fine, Zuck’ s birthday
5/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe Edition—EU-US inflation, Vietnam protests China, BNP’s mega-fine, Zuck’s birthday
5/13/2014 - There’s a simple reason Narendra Modi will be India’s next prime minister
5/13/2014 - Russia’s answer to US sanctions: trying to ground American satellites
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Coke’s coffee bid, EU privacy rules, Russian space sanctions, Zuck’s birthday
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Coke’s coffee bid, EU privacy rules, Russian space sanctions, Zuck’s birthday
5/13/2014 - Net neutrality has done the impossible: Align leftist and corporate interests
5/13/2014 - How the Indian elections are just like “Game of Thrones”
5/13/2014 - Making your email impossible to intercept will also make it useless
5/13/2014 - Millennials may be health conscious, but they still adore booze
5/13/2014 - The best and worst countries at middle management
5/13/2014 - Goldman just lost the engine behind its technology IPO dominance
5/13/2014 - Why “exoatmospheric war zone” is part of the outlook for space companies
5/13/2014 - Why AT&T wants to get into the satellite TV business
5/13/2014 - This is going to be a very bad year to be an Asiatic raccoon
5/13/2014 - Billionaire Wilbur Ross joins the market move back to SPACs
5/13/2014 - How to design book covers about Africa without falling into clichés
5/13/2014 - This company promises email that can self-destruct in five seconds
5/13/2014 - The complete guide to getting over a cold as quickly as possible
5/13/2014 - Europe will let its citizens edit Google search results for their names
5/13/2014 - Beijing just handed out the city’s largest-ever fine for air pollution—to a US joint venture
5/13/2014 - The case for letting your daughters play with Barbie
5/13/2014 - Economists used to be the priests of free markets—now they’re just a bunch of engineers
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Google-EU privacy ruling, Facebook eyes China, AT&T-DirectTV advances, whiskey-flavored pigs
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Google-EU privacy ruling, Facebook eyes China, AT&T-DirectTV advances, whiskey-flavored pigs
5/13/2014 - The US welfare system is becoming more generous—unless you’re a single mother
5/13/2014 - Why China could be huge for Facebook, even though it’s banned
5/13/2014 - A new rock and roll anthem for the common man in India
5/13/2014 - Here’s how India’s record-setting voter turnout compares to the rest of the world
5/13/2014 - Congratulations Barclays, your “bad bank” is the biggest in the business
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Melting ice sheets, Facebook in China, Pfizer’s charm offensive, whiskey-flavored pigs
5/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Melting ice sheets, Facebook in China, Pfizer’s charm offensive, whiskey-flavored pigs
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Icahn and eBay, melting ice sheets, hipster beer, bourbon bacon
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Icahn and eBay, melting ice sheets, hipster beer, bourbon bacon
5/12/2014 - Here’s more evidence that Americans are growing fond of soccer
5/12/2014 - The future of terrorism will be fueled by climate change
5/12/2014 - Why Russia’s markets are a poor guide to what investors think right now
5/12/2014 - “Cautious” or not, Putin may still annex eastern Ukraine
5/12/2014 - Spot all the clichés in BuzzFeed’s memo about Jon Steinberg’s departure
5/12/2014 - The Danish parliament thinks a cartoon packed with sex and violence will bring more voters to the polls
5/12/2014 - A new LinkedIn best practice—don’t connect with your insider trading partner
5/12/2014 - Beats might just be the best platform for Apple’s wearable tech
5/12/2014 - What Jimmy Iovine could do to help and hurt Apple in music
5/12/2014 - China’s housing bubble is collapsing, and here’s what it looks like
5/12/2014 - Ukrainian separatists are getting better at holding fake referendums
5/12/2014 - The reason every book about Africa has the same cover—and it’s not pretty
5/12/2014 - Here’s who China has detained so far ahead of the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square
5/12/2014 - A US distillery is breeding whiskey-flavored pigs
5/12/2014 - A Chinese company lost a deadly radioactive pellet in a field, and didn’t tell the public for two days
5/12/2014 - Television is taking a cue from summer movie blockbusters
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—India’s election ends, Ukraine’s separatist victory, Murdoch’s European dream, Putin on ice
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s election ends, Ukraine’s separatist victory, Murdoch’s European dream, Putin on ice
5/12/2014 - India’s markets are having a pre-election rally, but it’s foreigners doing the buying
5/12/2014 - Some Kashmiri Pandits back Modi as they think of their long-lost homeland
5/12/2014 - AAP supporters in Varanasi say this is only the beginning of the common man’s show
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ukraine’s separatist victory, Barclays’ Qatar probe, China’s waste protests, Putin on ice
5/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ukraine’s separatist victory, Barclays’ Qatar probe, China’s waste protests, Putin on ice
5/11/2014 - How a Mumbai man helped disrupt the US’s supply of lethal drugs used to execute convicts
5/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—China’s slowth, British billionaires, Indian mangoes, Dracula’s real estate
5/11/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s slowth, British billionaires, Indian mangoes, Dracula’s real estate
5/11/2014 - Take a mother’s day vow to get out of your kid’s way
5/11/2014 - Being a mother cured me from my perfectionist and workaholic ways
5/11/2014 - Send a card to the man who put Helvetica on your subway map
5/11/2014 - As voting closes in India, no one knows what the results will be
5/11/2014 - India will be ruled by a ‘third front’ government after this election, Akhilesh Yadav predicts
5/11/2014 - The mother of Mother’s Day wouldn’t want you to buy your mom a present
5/11/2014 - Near and far, small countries are worrying over Russia’s and China’s territorial grabs
5/10/2014 - 20 years ago I helped kill the Asian-American family comedy—today my son may help bring the genre back to life
5/10/2014 - Eurovision: the kitschiest way to get up to speed on the Ukraine crisis
5/10/2014 - China is reportedly thinking about building a bullet train that reaches America
5/10/2014 - Beyond the Met: Four fashion exhibits to see now before they close
5/10/2014 - A brief history of soccer in the US, and why it might finally have found its place in the American psyche
5/10/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Apple’s Beats bet, Switzerland’s coffee bonanza, Indian vote-rigging, the Mona Lisa
5/10/2014 - There’s one place Arvind Kejriwal can still be a common man—on the banks of the Ganges
5/10/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Apple’s Beats bet, Switzerland’s coffee bonanza, Indian vote-rigging, the Mona Lisa
5/10/2014 - Why Indian mangoes are better than Pakistani ones
5/9/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Apple’s Beats bet, Switzerland’s coffee bonanza, Indian vote-rigging, the Mona Lisa
5/9/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Apple’s Beats bet, Switzerland’s coffee bonanza, Indian vote-rigging, the Mona Lisa
5/9/2014 - Decorate your home in vintage NASA artifacts from a space auction
5/9/2014 - Russia can take inspiration from these three countries to build a cyber firewall
5/9/2014 - The real reason why Asians are less self-centered than Westerners: Rice
5/9/2014 - JPMorgan has a color-coded spreadsheet for bankers who work too much
5/9/2014 - Small Midwest colleges are facing a demographic death spiral
5/9/2014 - Forget 3D printing—to make fake money, inkjet printers are better
5/9/2014 - Tortured corporate metaphor of the day, Publicis-Omnicom edition
5/9/2014 - Steady on, Dr. Dre, you might not become a billionaire just yet
5/9/2014 - Beats’s Jimmy Iovine: “Apple got everything right—except that earbud”
5/9/2014 - China is cheapening the yuan for scarier reasons than usual
5/9/2014 - Meet the company that punishes managers for bothering underlings on vacation
5/9/2014 - The Publicis-Omnicom mega-merger unravelled for entirely predictable reasons
5/9/2014 - Hollywood’s superhero movie binge explained in four charts
5/9/2014 - Even if you start after age 40, endurance training can help your heart
5/9/2014 - The fear that fewer airlines means higher airfares is confirmed by this chart
5/9/2014 - Sunglasses that promise a real-life Instagram filter
5/9/2014 - America’s new wealthy have so little to offer society
5/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Publicis-Omnicom deal collapses, Apple eyes Beats, China inflation slows, the end of Sundays
5/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Publicis-Omnicom deal collapses, Apple eyes Beats, China inflation slows, the end of Sundays
5/9/2014 - Uber is upending that old motto about the customer always being right
5/9/2014 - America loves K-cups, but instant coffee rules the world
5/9/2014 - Why millions of counterfeit Beats won’t bother Apple
5/9/2014 - Alibaba’s IPO could send shockwaves through all of these companies
5/9/2014 - From the roof of the world, Delhi politics look mighty small
5/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Publicis-Omnicom deal collapses, Apple eyes Beats, China inflation slows, the end of Sundays
5/8/2014 - Box’s new deal with GE could help get its IPO back on track
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Barclays’ bad bank, Snapchat’s wrist slap, Dr Dre’s deal, the end of Sundays
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Barclay’s bad bank, Snapchat’s wrist slap, Dr Dre’s deal, the end of Sundays
5/8/2014 - Apple might be about to strike its biggest deal ever…with Dr. Dre
5/8/2014 - Portland has 10 times more people cycling to work than the average US city
5/8/2014 - Tesla’s next big initiative may be a software update
5/8/2014 - In 10 years, every country will have a drone army
5/8/2014 - China and the US are racing to turn poor, naive Millennials into spies
5/8/2014 - Finally, some good news: China’s exports were way better than they looked
5/8/2014 - How Switzerland turns a little coffee into a lot of money
5/8/2014 - Mario Draghi still thinks words are the best monetary policy
5/8/2014 - The official explanation of what happened to flight MH370 doesn’t hold up
5/8/2014 - Barclays is about to make make it official: Investment banking is dead almost everywhere
5/8/2014 - What’s really behind Nigeria’s kidnapped girls: a very weak president
5/8/2014 - Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that
5/8/2014 - Fighting squid reveal an evolutionary purpose of pain
5/8/2014 - ShopRunner could be Alibaba’s Trojan horse in a future challenge to Amazon
5/8/2014 - How to get more women in science—and keep them there
5/8/2014 - Why the iPad is (still) the future of Apple
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Vietnam-China face-off, Ukraine tensions ease, Samsung’s “Midas” exits, the pollen vortex
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Vietnam-China face-off, Ukraine tensions ease, Samsung’s “Midas” exits, the pollen vortex
5/8/2014 - Criminal millionaires are gunning for parliament seats in three huge Indian states
5/8/2014 - JPMorgan is poaching talent from Silicon Valley
5/8/2014 - Xiaomi took a gutsy gamble on Japan after Fukushima—and it paid off big
5/8/2014 - Chinese xenophobes just realized that Alibaba’s biggest investor is Japanese
5/8/2014 - Meet the family behind the world’s biggest new coffee company
5/8/2014 - Alibaba’s gender diversity puts Silicon Valley to shame
5/8/2014 - The father of 3D printing says it’s overhyped
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Vietnam-China face-off, BofA’s $4 billion mistake, Samsung’s “Midas” exits, the pollen vortex
5/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Vietnam-China face-off, BofA’s $4 billion mistake, Samsung’s “Midas” exits, the pollen vortex
5/8/2014 - More than half of Russians want the Soviet Union back
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—News Corp’s numbers, Lewinsky’s dish, a new coffee king, the pollen vortex
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—News Corp’s numbers, Lewinsky’s dish, a new coffee king, the pollen vortex
5/7/2014 - Tesla is profitable and the market doesn’t care
5/7/2014 - Alibaba is betting it all on the Chinese government’s ability to reform
5/7/2014 - Chinese online shopping could soon be worth more than Switzerland’s entire GDP
5/7/2014 - Why it’s probably OK to keep eating cod from the North Sea
5/7/2014 - Oscar Pistorius symbolizes a generation of violent South African men
5/7/2014 - Four problems that irritate Amazon, but threaten Alibaba’s existence
5/7/2014 - The surprising resilience of AOL’s dialup internet business
5/7/2014 - Vladimir Putin is exactly the kind of leader the US economy needs right now
5/7/2014 - Nobel economist Gary Becker showed that Mike Milken was history’s greatest feminist
5/7/2014 - Alibaba’s tiny cloud service has one big advantage over Amazon, Google and Microsoft
5/7/2014 - European companies rue their exposure to Russia’s sputtering economy
5/7/2014 - Three surprising business ventures of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba
5/7/2014 - Whole Foods thinks it’s too expensive
5/7/2014 - Don’t be afraid of robots—be afraid of becoming one
5/7/2014 - A better e-cigarette is coming but you’ll need a prescription
5/7/2014 - HBO chief Richard Plepler explains his simple plan for staying ahead of Netflix
5/7/2014 - Here are the disputed waters where China parked a giant oil rig and harvested protected turtles
5/7/2014 - The US lawyer bubble has conclusively popped
5/7/2014 - Some companies would rather get rid of interns than pay them
5/7/2014 - Thailand’s “juristocracy” just ousted the prime minister, and more chaos lies ahead
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Thai PM ousted, Siemens overhaul, Vietnam-China naval clash, robotic moral dilemmas
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Thai PM ousted, Siemens overhaul, Vietnam-China naval clash, robotic moral dilemmas
5/7/2014 - The partners who control Alibaba are anonymous and all-powerful
5/7/2014 - BMW is revving its electric engines and gaining ground on Tesla
5/7/2014 - Meet the soap opera star challenging Rahul Gandhi in Amethi
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Alibaba IPO, Thai PM faces ouster, South Africa election, robotic moral dilemmas
5/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Alibaba IPO, Thai PM faces ouster, South Africa election, robotic moral dilemmas
5/6/2014 - The man who tried to change Indian politics before Kejriwal says the AAP are Luddites—and Modi is realistic
5/6/2014 - China’s tech firms are counting on single men to watch more live karaoke online
5/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Alibaba’s IPO, Twitter’s tumble, Bayer’s drugs deal, political selfies
5/6/2014 - The Chinese government may threaten Alibaba’s payment platform in a big way
5/6/2014 - Alibaba isn’t going global—at least not yet
5/6/2014 - Alibaba just revealed how much money it makes
5/6/2014 - A college degree is worth $831,000
5/6/2014 - Ukraine won’t trigger World War III: Accept the new global disorder
5/6/2014 - For Rand Paul at the Kentucky Derby, it’s herringbone over houndstooth by a nose
5/6/2014 - The father of wearable computers thinks their data should frighten you
5/6/2014 - Prestigious schools get you paid but don’t make you happier
5/6/2014 - How a 248-year-old fine art business survives in the world of the internet
5/6/2014 - All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get something like Alibaba
5/6/2014 - The radically sensible idea that’s lowering America’s massive monthly student debt payments
5/6/2014 - An illustrated guide to why China’s housing bubble may finally be bursting—and what that means for the economy
5/6/2014 - China’s government will now reverse-engineer the breast milk of Chinese women
5/6/2014 - Narendra Modi has already won in India—in the fashion race
5/6/2014 - Barclays warned its earnings would be bad, but the reality was even worse
5/6/2014 - A brief history of American foodownership
5/6/2014 - How to get stuff done: Make your lists short and strategic
5/6/2014 - The fleeting satisfaction of blocking every ad on Twitter
5/6/2014 - America’s draconian lightbulb laws are fueling the search for bright new ideas
5/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—UBS and Barclays results, Alibaba IPO, euro zone surge, Sterling’s tax windfall
5/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—UBS and Barclays results, Alibaba IPO, euro zone surge, Sterling’s tax windfall
5/6/2014 - China’s latest railway attack is in the massive trade hub of Guangzhou
5/6/2014 - Foreign investors are cooling on Chinese IPOs—and the timing couldn’t be worse for Alibaba
5/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Target CEO ousted, Alibaba IPO, South Sudan sanctions, tourists help poachers
5/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Target CEO ousted, Alibaba IPO, South Sudan sanctions, tourists help poachers
5/5/2014 - How journalists resort to clichés when covering Gujarat and the riot victims
5/5/2014 - BJP tennis visor, anyone? Varanasi is a land of political promotion
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Target’s ex-CEO, Markit’s IPO, hashtag shopping, crowdfunded assassinations
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Target’s ex-CEO, Markit’s IPO, hashtag shopping, crowdfunded assassinations
5/5/2014 - Chipotle’s plan to take over America starts with being on every corner in Washington DC
5/5/2014 - What insider selling could tell us about Twitter’s future
5/5/2014 - Three questions Alibaba doesn’t want investors to ask
5/5/2014 - “Who’s Viewed Your Profile” is LinkedIn’s most popular feature by a long shot
5/5/2014 - If Europe wants to punish Russia, it should look to its own tax havens
5/5/2014 - What embattled General Motors CEO Mary Barra told students about handling a crisis
5/5/2014 - Two scary new signs that shadow banking is spreading risk throughout China’s economy
5/5/2014 - Edward Snowden’s latest target is a Danish gossip magazine
5/5/2014 - Here’s the chart that has Chinese stock markets so depressed
5/5/2014 - Target’s CEO just became cyber-crime’s biggest corporate casualty
5/5/2014 - Geotagged safari photos could lead poachers right to endangered rhinos
5/5/2014 - Alibaba’s e-commerce head has a plan to save post offices around the world
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Odessa unrest, China slows further, EU update, meditating bankers
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Odessa unrest, China slows further, EU update, meditating bankers
5/5/2014 - China’s mega-cities are combining into mega-regions, and they’re doing it all wrong
5/5/2014 - Cathay Pacific’s frequent fliers think sexually harassing the cabin crew is a perk
5/5/2014 - Britain and China may be risking a trade war over cheese
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Odessa unrest, China slows further, EU update, meditating bankers
5/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Odessa unrest, China slows further, EU update, meditating bankers
5/4/2014 - Tech IPOs went from frenzy to fizzle in about a month
5/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Ikea’s top dog, Pfizer’s bid, Obama’s humor, meditating bankers
5/4/2014 - A brief history of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, as told through its giant cash pile
5/4/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ikea’s top dog, Pfizer’s bid, Obama’s humor, meditating bankers
5/4/2014 - This is what comes after search
5/4/2014 - 16 crazy-named hot sauces to impress your friends on Cinco de Mayo
5/4/2014 - Priyanka Gandhi is campaigning now for the 2017 general election
5/4/2014 - Vitamin D may be key to why black men get more deadly prostate cancers
5/4/2014 - There’s an underground movement in Gujarat to defeat Narendra Modi
5/4/2014 - How to rig the Indian election
5/3/2014 - Condoleezza Rice missed her chance to really sock it to Rutgers students
5/3/2014 - Russia just dared the West to launch an all-out economic war
5/3/2014 - Big pharma won’t let your doctor forget your next shot
5/3/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Alibaba comes to America, robots come for your job, terror comes for CAR
5/3/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Alibaba comes to America, robots come for your job, terror comes for CAR
5/3/2014 - The world’s most popular sport is terrible at statistics
5/3/2014 - Your anti-UK Independence Party memes aren’t as clever as you think
5/3/2014 - Why humans are obsessed with the longest bridges, the biggest buildings and other ways to blow billions
5/3/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Alibaba comes to America, robots come for your job, terror comes for CAR
5/2/2014 - The real reason Indian intellectuals are backing Narendra Modi
5/2/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Alibaba comes to America, robots come for your job, terror comes for CAR
5/2/2014 - A disease that’s three times more deadly than SARS just reached the United States
5/2/2014 - Americans still don’t prefer female leaders, but they’re warming up to them
5/2/2014 - 85% of American marriages are still between people of the same race
5/2/2014 - The Snapchat of web addresses: Meet the domains that aren’t meant to last
5/2/2014 - The one thing missing from too many job applications is effort
5/2/2014 - These four veterans are using financial wiles, not technology, to break open the oil patch
5/2/2014 - Childbirth death is way more likely in the US than the UK, and it’s getting worse
5/2/2014 - Walmart is one of Brazil’s biggest email spammers
5/2/2014 - The most important charts from the fantastic April jobs report
5/2/2014 - If you want your IPO to be a success, hire fewer bankers
5/2/2014 - The blowout US jobs report for April in two simple charts
5/2/2014 - Your next iPhone might be delivered from China via a 2,000-year-old trade route
5/2/2014 - Let’s start paying for college through a graduate tax
5/2/2014 - The UK’s economic boom is even making RBS look good
5/2/2014 - Listen to the fake sounds that could keep electric vehicles from hitting people
5/2/2014 - The US economy added 288,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%
5/2/2014 - Not even those who run Netflix shows know how popular they really are
5/2/2014 - Pretending racism doesn’t exist won’t make it go away
5/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Pfizer-AstraZeneca talks resume, Ukraine’s eastern offensive, US jobs, web surfing couture
5/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Pfizer-AstraZeneca talks resume, Ukraine’s eastern offensive, US jobs, web surfing couture
5/2/2014 - Election day in Naroda Patiya, Gujarat, 12 years after the riots
5/2/2014 - Can Narendra Modi deliver the economic freedom he has promised to India?
5/2/2014 - Mamata Banerjee is making the Trinamol Congress millions—through her art
5/2/2014 - Asia’s most popular messaging app is censoring itself in China
5/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Pfizer’s sweetened offer, US jobs, Ford’s new boss, web surfing outfits
5/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Pfizer’s sweetened offer, US jobs, Ford’s new boss, web surfing outfits
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Jobs Friday, mango imports, Ford’s new boss, clothes for web surfing
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Jobs Friday, mango imports, Ford’s new boss, clothes for web surfing
5/1/2014 - This imaging technology is helping doctors detect cancer early
5/1/2014 - LinkedIn’s growth is also slowing
5/1/2014 - The last-ditch effort to save smallpox research
5/1/2014 - Chinese censors turn ‘Game of Thrones’ into a “medieval European castle documentary”
5/1/2014 - The Doritos Locos Taco helped get Taco Bell’s CEO a huge promotion
5/1/2014 - The ocean is so acidic it’s eating away the shells of sea snails
5/1/2014 - Six charts you need to see before the big US jobs report
5/1/2014 - The city of Seattle is set to adopt the highest minimum wage in the world
5/1/2014 - Why make new antibiotics when no one is paying for them?
5/1/2014 - Brace yourself for the European Uber war
5/1/2014 - The reinvention of MTV, chapter one million
5/1/2014 - Five markets that had a truly ugly April
5/1/2014 - Here’s why we may never find alien life
5/1/2014 - Secretive Swiss commodities giants are buying big chunks of US energy
5/1/2014 - Four unexpected and terrible destinations for the world’s persecuted
5/1/2014 - When helping Ukraine means filling Russia’s coffers
5/1/2014 - T-Mobile is winning the wireless wars, at a price
5/1/2014 - Sometimes the best way to get rid of a dead whale is to blow it up
5/1/2014 - The Philippines’ jeepney replacement may have found the electric vehicle sweetspot
5/1/2014 - The best messaging platform ever invented can only connect you to one other person
5/1/2014 - The 21 economic charts from April you really should see
5/1/2014 - Why LinkedIn is morphing from a social network into an online newspaper
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Exxon’s Russia risk, AT&T eyes DirecTV, Sony’s woes continue, Godzilla overweight
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Exxon’s Russia risk, AT&T eyes DirecTV, Sony’s woes continue, Godzilla overweight
5/1/2014 - Ukrainians must beware of what joining Europe could actually mean
5/1/2014 - New superbugs could make UTIs fatal, not just uncomfortable
5/1/2014 - Putin signals that he’s ready for an oil war
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Exxon’s Russia risk, China terror attack, AT&T eyes DirecTV, hacking oil rigs
5/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Exxon’s Russia risk, China terror attack, AT&T eyes DirecTV, hacking oil rigs