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IBM's all-star salesman (26 September 05:30) |
| Vivek Gupta barely waits for the driver to pull to a stop before jumping out of the back seat of the taxi. He strides toward a converted textile mill in south central Mumbai, which now house... |
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Russia's billionaire boys club (11 September 03:26) |
| A guide to the oligarchs riding high on Russia's resources boom. |
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Just how scary is Russia? (10 September 06:18) |
| The Cold War was supposed to be history, a topic today's twentysomethings know about only from the classroom, not from doing duck-and-cover drills in elementary school, as their parents did.... |
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How the KGB (and friends) took over Russia's economy (09 September 05:21) |
| Long before the small group of men gained control of a $1.3 trillion economy, they could be found gathered at a lakeshore deep in the forest, trying to relax amid the upheaval of the new Rus... |
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The world's worst inflation (16 August 10:03) |
| If purchased on the newsstand in Zimbabwe, the issue of Fortune you're holding would have cost you 270,543,825,555 Zimbabwean dollars. But don't worry about pulling your Weimar-era wheelbarr... |
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Not so lazy, after all (06 August 05:09) |
| Europeans rarely feel more superior to us Americans than at this time of year, and you can't blame them. They're taking their umpteen-week vacations, perhaps enjoying state-funded massages i... |
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5 hottest global job markets (15 July 02:50) |
| These five countries are hungry for more workers. |
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The British (retail) invasion (03 July 03:56) |
| Sir Philip Green spreads his arms wide inside the 40,000-square-foot space that will soon become the first U.S. location of his retailer Topshop. "This is awesome," he says, his voice echoin... |
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Europeans get serious about insider trading (02 July 06:22) |
| On June 18, when French authorities put a second EADS executive under formal investigation for insider trading, it was the latest reminder that European regulators were getting serious about... |
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Ranbaxy makes Indian corporate history with Daiichi deal (12 June 03:16) |
| The $3.4 to $4.6 billion planned sale of India's largest pharmaceuticals company marks a huge milestone in the internationalization of Indian companies. |
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This train solves railways' pain (05 June 05:15) |
| It is an unusual sight to behold: Freight trains zipping through Europe, across country borders - and over myriad rail voltages and national train systems. The technology patching together t... |
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You have 7 years to learn Mandarin (19 May 09:16) |
| Back in 2001 when the International Olympic Committee chose Beijing as the site of this summer's games, the event was meant to mark China's debut as a player on the global economic stage. Bu... |
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Weatherford makes amends in Sudan (14 May 10:41) |
| All too seldom is a Fortune story about corporate misbehavior transformed into feel-good news. But for the Texas oil-services company Weatherford International, our revelation last July that... |
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An international affair (09 May 08:37) |
| Behind the scenes with a new gadget that's a real globetrotter -- the Nokia N810. |
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Embattled Soc Gen CEO steps down (18 April 02:34) |
| Daniel Bouton will step down as chief executive of Société Générale in May, although he'll stay on as chairman, the French bank announced Thursday. Bouton, 58, is taking the fall for the... |
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Nuclear power's white-hot metal (27 March 09:13) |
| The clock is chasing down 1 A.M. It's late for dinner - or for interviews - in Almaty, Kazakhstan's former capital. But self-made Kazakh uranium czar Moukhtar Dzhakishev is just hitting his ... |
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Tata buys $2.3 billion of trouble (27 March 04:46) |
| India's leading automaker buys Ford's Land Rover and Jaguar brands. Can Tata Motors succeed where so many others have failed? |
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Scottish power (12 March 03:40) |
| The Orkney Islands, where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean violently meet, last gained fame in 1725 when the pirate ship Revenge was captured there. |
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Waste not, want not (27 February 03:22) |
| Sintex Industries, a plastics and textiles manufacturer in Gujarat, India, is betting it can find profit in human waste. Its new biogas digester turns human excrement, cow dung, or kitchen g... |
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A new approach to an old disease (25 February 08:34) |
| Charles Kimando, a doctor in Kenya, has long been frustrated with his limited arsenal of drugs to treat malaria. The parasitic disease makes its appearance after heavy rains in Embu, the cen... |
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Pakistani elections encourage investors (22 February 09:53) |
| Akbar Shah Afridi had no doubt about what will happen after Pakistan's votes are counted. |
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Searching for the next Dubai (21 February 03:10) |
| It's always tough driving in the wilds of East Africa. But in the tiny country of Djibouti, our driver explains, it's tougher than usual. "Djiboutian goats don't scare," he says, holding dow... |
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Chocolate's bittersweet economy (15 February 12:02) |
| Outside the village of Sinikosson in southwestern Ivory Coast, along a trail tracing the edge of a muddy fishpond, Madi Ouedraogo sits on the ground picking up cocoa pods in one hand, hackin... |
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Investment in Africa starts to pay off (14 February 04:29) |
| Read the news about civil war in Kenya, unrest in Chad, or genocide in Darfur, and you could conclude that Africa is no place to invest money. |
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Nestlé's CEO to Wall Street: I did it my way (12 February 08:34) |
| After 11 years at the helm, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe will soon step down as chief executive of Nestlé, the world's largest food company, whose brands include Nescafé, Jenny Craig, Gerber and... |
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India's water shortage (29 January 06:16) |
| Just before dusk, on the plains of India's northern Punjab region, 22-year-old Naresh Kumar sprinkles mustard oil, turmeric, and raw sugar inside a ten-inch circle traced in the rich soil. H... |
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Wal-Mart gets its bank - in Mexico (29 January 02:41) |
| For years, Wal-Mart tried to enter the U.S. banking business, but it gave up in 2007, pulling its application after endless outcries from domestic retail banks. Now it's found a more recepti... |
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South Africa's mobile money (16 January 10:17) |
| Jaccqueline Mathe, unemployed and 22, has just signed up for a bank account in Nellmapius, a black township near Pretoria. All she needed was a government ID and a mobile phone. Mathe hopes ... |
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India sees record-breaking IPO (15 January 10:23) |
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Building Shanghai's tower of power (09 January 07:55) |
| Before following his father into the property business, Minoru Mori dreamed of becoming a novelist. So when he returned from an October 1993 visit to Shanghai talking excitedly of a plan to ... |
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Gucci Group: The ice cream man cometh (09 January 06:25) |
| Three months after Robert Polet took over as chief executive of Gucci Group in July 2004, he gave his new colleagues a glimpse of the self-confidence and single-mindedness that landed him th... |
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Hog wild for China (04 January 12:00) |
| This is the China century," says Jim Rogers, standing amid moving boxes in his opulent Manhattan townhouse. "It's time for them to rule the roost." In fact, the 65-year-old former investment... |
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Mobile makers shake up music biz (03 January 11:54) |
| Nokia and Sony Ericsson threaten cellular carriers with their new music plans. |
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Top foreign stocks for 2008 (18 December 10:09) |
| Foreign stock markets are on a tear. From Dublin to Brazil, these five picks all present opportunities to capitalize on rising prosperity worldwide. |
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Platinum fever (11 December 09:18) |
| Half a mile below the red-rock African landscape, mine manager Charl Geldenhuys points to an array of fluorescent-orange circles spray-painted at a dark tunnel's rocky end. "That's where we ... |
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A telecom takedown in the Far East (11 December 04:00) |
| It was a hot, sticky day in Jakarta, especially for visiting officials of Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings. They sweated for nearly four hours on Nov. 19, as Indonesia's competition ... |
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The Great Mall of China (06 December 08:04) |
| Fortune's Clay Chandler kicks off the holiday season with a stroll through theYiwu mall, a wholesaler's paradise that could change the way China does business. |
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IBM's next big thing: Africa (06 December 07:39) |
| Stereotypical images of Africa, as a global backwater plagued by poverty, disease, conflict and corruption, hide some encouraging realities. Democracy has taken root across the continent. Th... |
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Lights out for oil-rich Nigeria (04 December 02:34) |
| The Egbin Thermal Power Station, a few miles outside Lagos, is Nigeria's largest generating plant, with a capacity of 1,320 megawatts. It has six units, but two have been cannibalized to rep... |
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Open sesame for China's Web king (26 November 05:15) |
| On the eve of Alibaba.com's $1.7 billion stock offering - the biggest Internet IPO since Google went public in 2004 - friends of founder Jack Ma warned that he was in for a harrowing ordeal. |
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Blood rubies (26 November 03:58) |
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Pasta panic strikes Italy (22 November 02:37) |
| The price of wheat is up 60% this year, and in Italy they're taking to the streets over the cost of tortellini. |
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The new iron age (21 November 08:15) |
| I'm wedged into a corner of the Wild West Saloon in Kalgoorlie, Australia, listening to a couple of investment bankers from Sydney discuss the tight market for Maseratis, when my new pal Ash... |
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India's Warren Buffett: Long-term bull (16 November 02:37) |
| Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India's leading one-man market mover and one of the country's richest men, tells Fortune's John Elliott that there's reason to be cautious on the short term. |
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The fast track (13 November 01:50) |
| The sensation of speed is as muted as the Christian Lacroix interiors of the first-class carriages. Passengers stroll the corridors without lurching from side to side. Drinks at the bar are ... |
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Time to short Facebook, buy Bollywood (05 November 09:01) |
| Over dinner in New Delhi last week, a European business executive who has laid down some big bets on Indian media was questioning what all the ruckus about Facebook was about. |
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10 most 'accountable' companies (02 November 06:48) |
| Which corporations are most committed to social and environmental goals? See Fortune's annual ranking of the world's 100 largest companies. |
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Disruptive technologies cross continents (01 November 02:29) |
| Abhishek Nayak just turned 20 yesterday, and he spoke on a panel of young people here in Delhi at the Fortune Global Forum. He's a committed programmer who hands out a business card that sho... |
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India vs. U.S.: Contrasting finance chiefs (30 October 07:06) |
| India's finance minister, P. Chidambaram, says India can't let capital-markets innovation get ahead of regulations. U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson says we wouldn't want it the other way aro... |
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India's cockpit crisis (30 October 04:06) |
| India's fast-growing airline industry is plagued by decaying infrastructure, frequent delays, and financial losses. Now add one more problem: a pilot shortage. |
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