Cross Border
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Melinda Gates: The first woman of women
Melinda Gates is exerting her influence over the richest charitable foundation in history. In doing so, she's quickly become the most powerful advocate for women and girls in the world
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Ten big ideas to change the world
What happens when you put 150 altruistic billionaires, legendary entrepreneurs and Nobel Prize-worthy gamechangers in one room for a day to talk about ways to give smart and better? Some disruptive ideas regarding philanthropy
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Billionaire Don Hankey: An underdog's lender or a loan shark?
Don Hankey has become a billionaire charging sky-high interest on subprime car loans. Now he's moving into the sharing economy by partnering with Uber. Sounds sexy, but for Hankey it's just another attempt, like renting out his mansion, to earn an ironclad 30 percent return
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The last days of Marissa Mayer?
The Yahoo CEO was viewed as a saviour back in 2012. But insiders say that she now leads a company without a vision or a viable turnaround plan. As top executives flee in droves, it's plausible that Mayer might soon join them
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Flipagram could be bigger than Instagram
How big? The last startup that had Michael Moritz and John Doerr on the same board was Google
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Carbon3D: The shape of things to come
Carbon3D is the latest hype-beast in 3D printing, but it has the best chance yet to reinvent manufacturing
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Wal-Mart and everyday renewable energy
Wal-Mart, long the bogeyman of the left, is making one of its long-held dreams a reality: Affordable green energy deployed on an industrial scale
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Alibaba and the 40,000 thieves
The world's biggest online retailer courses with an unprecedented torrent of counterfeit and sham goods, and neither the big brands, the Chinese government nor US pressure can do much about it. Jack Ma, the most powerful businessman in Asia, can. But shutting down the fakes would undermine his Alibaba empire
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China's 100 richest
Despite slowing growth, a stock market bubble that burst and a huge state debt, the wealth of China's richest has gone up by 20 percent
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Stewart and Lynda Resnick: America's nuttiest power couple
Fresh off sapping the water from a Pacific island and flogging pomegranate juice with questionable health claims, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire couple behind Fiji Water and POM Wonderful, are profiting off pistachios and almonds with the same combination of marketing genius and opportunistic water grabs amid California's worst drought on record
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Ian Read: Innovation's accountant
The price of Viagra—and other older drugs—is going up. Pfizer's Ian Read insists the problem is health insurance, not pharma