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3 keys to a killer Super Bowl ad

Advertisers are paying record amounts to put their brands in front of you during Super Bowl Sunday. Here are three ways to grade them. More

The best cities for job hunting

Hiring nationwide is still sluggish, but local economies in some places are thriving and creating jobs. Ever thought about moving to Texas? More

Twitter investor talks IPO

Twitter will eventually cave to investor and employee pressure and/or bump up against the 500-shareholder rule More

Private equity gets a PAC

Private equity pulls out its checkbook. More

Why three senators said no to an insider trading ban in Congress

Three senators explain their votes against a no brainer. More

The problem with the founder's letter

Like Google and Groupon, Facebook's letter expressed a defiant idealism that -- eventually -- must confront the realities of business. More

King Larry: The story of a business monster

Weekly Read: James D. Scurlock's King Larry, a new biography of eccentric DHL co-founder Larry Hillblom. More

How Indianapolis won the Super Bowl: a lesson in persuasion

Allison Melangton, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee, shares her story of bringing Super Bowl XLVI to her hometown. More

The cloud goes Hollywood

The major film studios think they've found a way to sell and deliver movies online. Will consumers buy it? More

IBM's Watson is changing careers

The Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is interesting in doing more than sparring with Alex Trebek. So it's going into business. More

Apple led the way as smartphones overtook PCs

Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011 More

Facebook shares pop on secondary markets

Private market investors are now valuing Facebook at around $100 billion. More

An ad exec's wise warning about social media

Weekly Read: Who Cares Wins, a new take on corporate social responsibility and social media by senior advertising executive David Jones. More

iPhone patent wars: What's going on in Germany?

Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail More

Bain's Romney problem

Does Mitt Romney threaten Bain Capital? More

Great jobs report, but what about the long-term unemployed?

The market has every reason to celebrate the latest jobs report, but the statistics on the long-term unemployed are still unsettling. More

Apple earns 75% of all cell phone profits

Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings. More

Pre-Marketing: Super Bowl picks

Quants: Pats will beat Giants by more than three points. Also: SecondMarket's post-FB challenge. More

Heavenly Steve Jobs ad spawns hellish flame war

A Taiwanese impersonator brings out the worst in Apple's critics and fans. More

The trials of Uber

The three-year-old San Francisco startup has an innovative service -- that works. Users around the world are signing up in droves. So why are cities like Washington D.C. trying to kill it? More

Howard Stringer's long, strange trip

He tried. But the CEO's tenure was marked by regular public embarrassments that look all the worse in retrospect. More

15 great overlooked cars

They may not be the sexiest rides on the street, but for value, reliability, and fun, these cars quietly blow the doors off the competition. More

Carlyle's proposed IPO disaster

The private equity powerhouse's proposed IPO is an affront on shareholder rights and any sense of corporate accountability. More

5 ways the Super Bowl ad playbook has changed

Here's how major brands from Coke to Volkswagen have changed their game plan for getting the most from the big game. More

Can introverts succeed in business?

Organizations tend to celebrate and promote extroverted personalities, but by some calculations, introverts make up half of the population. That's an awful lot of talent to exclude from executive ranks. More

Sandberg's Facebook pay places her on top

Who is Facebook's highest-paid executive? Sheryl Sandberg. More

Poll: The most impressive VC

A whole lot of venture capitalists are about to get a nice windfall with the upcoming Facebook IPO. Of these prominent technology investors, which of them has the best eye for startup success? More

Meet the man behind the Facebook IPO

CFO David Ebersman may not be a household name. He soon may be. More

Conan O'Brien finds humor in suicides at the iPhone factories

Team Coco's video bits can be hit or miss. The one about Apple's iNett was a miss. More

UCLA rejects 52 MBA applicants for plagiarism

All told, UCLA's Anderson school found that 52 MBA candidates were lifting whole paragraphs from other, unattributed sources in their essays. And they are far from the only B-school dealing with the problem. More

Facebook's (other) major milestone

The social network's IPO will be a milestone -- and it could join the Fortune 500 list in record time. More

Super Bowl ads are GoDaddy's domain

The web hosting company has seen its market share increase exponentially since its first Super Bowl ad in 2005. Play

IDC: iPhone is No. 3 worldwide

Apple's mobile phone shipments nearly doubled in 2011, overtaking LG and ZTE. More

Survey: Demand for Kindle Fire slipping

Chief complaints: lack of volume control or camera and that the battery life's too short. More

Today in Tech: How Facebook's IPO made one graffiti artist a millionaire

Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. More

Spain's big fix will enrage many workers

Exclusive: Spain's economy minister Luis de Guindos shares the details of a reform package that could help get the country's economy back on track, but it will not go over well with many workers. More

Facebook files for $5 billion IPO

Finally, the details are unveiled. More

Preet Bharara makes TIME cover

Preet Bharara isn't The Protester. But he still made the latest cover of TIME Magazine More

Super Bowl: The car ads are back

Rising U.S. auto sales and improved financial performance are spurring a vigorous return by carmakers to television's priciest advertising venue, the Super Bowl. More

Romney raises big dollars from private equity

Private equity still loves Mitt Romney. More

Obama's plan to win Ohio

The president's campaign believes it is heading into the election year with a major, if unexpected, tactical advantage in the Buckeye State. More

Executives to new grads: Shape up!

Most senior managers are unimpressed with the entry-level job applicants they're seeing, reports a new survey. More

Four Seasons hires for five-star attitude

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts charges high premiums for the level of service that its employees provide to guests. Play

Changing Freddie Mac will not fix our housing problems

Freddie Mac may have blocked millions of homeowners from refinancing their mortgages, but lowering interest payments isn't going to resolve the woes of the housing market. More

Today in Tech: Will Facebook file for IPO today?

Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. More

Before Google, the Wojcicki girls learned from Mom

Her daughter Susan is the most powerful woman at Google. Her daughter Anne started 23andMe. You have to figure that Esther Wojcicki taught her daughters pretty well. More

Pre-Marketing: Facebook IPO details

Also: EU blocks NYSE-D.Boerse merger. And the untold story of two early Facebook investors. More

An Apple TV set in 2012?

The hardware is the easy part. The trick is to get Hollywood on board. More

Become your kid's mortgage lender

Giving or lending money to help your child buy a house can offer financial benefits to both parties - if it's done the right way. More

The secret behind the SOPA defeat

Yes, it was a victory for the little guy. But his fight also showed that the Internet and tech industries have finally come into their own in Washington. More

Apple hits a new all-time high

The world's most valuable company is now worth $425 billion, $24 billion ahead of Exxon More

An Apple chart for Mr. Market

Something is amiss when Apple's price per earnings per trailing growth approaches zero More

After Davos: Making the case for global optimism

If the World Economic Forum wants to continue contributing answers to the challenges facing the world and not just raising questions, it should pay closer attention to what the optimists in the room are saying. More

Motorola CEO: Our iPad battle plan

Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, says new Google apps may help slow down iPad's growth. Play

Soros: Why I support the Buffett rule

Billionaire George Soros says he would be significantly hit by a minimum 30% tax on the rich but he thinks it is appropriate. Play

Apple's culture of secrecy

Fortune's Adam Lashinsky explains the strategies Apple uses to keep its projects secret, even from its own employees. Play

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