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Women are breaking through the 'concrete ceiling'

Women-owned construction firms are on the rise, and have made it onto this year's Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing urban businesses in the U.S. More

The Xbox One has one major problem

Microsoft's Xbox One is being touted as the only peripheral your TV needs—except for your cable box, the only thing it apparently can't work without. More

Car Wars: A smoother road ahead

Influential auto analyst John Murphy sees some stability for the world's automakers in the next few years. But don't look for any significant shifts in market share. More

Questions for Nathan Myhrvold

He's a paleontologist, master chef, modern-day polymath, and author of a 2,438-page book on Modernist Cuisine. More

Pre-Marketing: Public company, public tax filing?

Food truck economics; debunking 7 conventional VC wisdom; and, 3D printed food? More

Goldman pushes hedge funds for your 401(k)

Wall Street is rolling out low-minimum mutual funds that will let you lose money like a high roller. More

Mr. Cook came to Washington, and escaped unscathed

No one laid a glove on Apple's CEO, not even the subcommittee's hostile chairman. More

5 ways to connect with your children

You can do it, no matter how busy you are. (Hint: a little planning helps .) More

Jamie Dimon dominates, again

The highly anticipated JPMorgan shareholder meeting felt more like a lunch gathering of a local Toastmasters than Ground Zero of the governance movement. More

Meet the new Microsoft Xbox

Microsoft is making a bid to own the living room with its new entertainment device. More

Lloyd Blankfein is wrong about Europe

The desperate patchwork of fixes for Europe is deluding the best financial minds, including Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, into believing that the euro is virtually certain to survive. More

Tim Cook has some explaining to do

It's a good thing for Apple that most people won't read the Senate subcommittee's report.
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What it takes to become a female Fortune 500 CEO

As Marissa Mayer stood with David Karp to announce Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr on Monday, you couldn't help but notice the vast educational divide between the two principals. More

Big Data could generate millions of new jobs

U.S. companies will need 1.9 million more techies by 2015, says one expert. Here are the top 10 tech skills employers are seeking. More

MyWebGrocer in acquisition talks

Private equity firm circles grocery ad network. More

Actavis: The latest Fortune 500 company to 'leave' the U.S. for tax reasons

The drugmaker plans to reincorporate in Ireland to reduce its tax burden, but the CEO will stay in New Jersey. More

Sen. Rand Paul: 'The Senate should apologize to Apple'

In Apple's defense, the junior senator from Kentucky has been tweeting up a storm. More

EVA stars of the Fortune 500

Economic Value Added shows which companies are able to turn capital into true profits -- and which stocks are cheap. More

Live TV: Where to watch the Senate's Apple hearings

C-Span's coverage begins at 9:30. Tim Cook will appear in the second segment. More

An unexpected bright spot for unions

Georgia is rarely thought of as union-friendly, but as the entertainment industry in the Peach State has flourished, so too have the membership rolls of local unions. More

Meet the AdMob genius who's at it again

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan wants to bridge the divide between desktop and mobile advertising. If she succeeds, even Google could find itself at a disadvantage. More

Brian Spaly: Trunk Club's virtual stylist

Brian Spaly, founder and CEO of Trunk Club, is disrupting retail, one box of clothes at a time. More

Flickr: The ghost that haunts Yahoo

Recent upgrades to the once-innovative service notwithstanding, the photo-sharing site is a lesson in what not to do. More

5 worst Internet acquisitions of all time

As well as the 5 best. More

8 ways to hit the road in an RV

Retiring boomers are helping the recreational vehicle industry get back on track. Here are 8 choices for traveling in style. More

Watson will be taking your calls now

IBM's supercomputer is getting a job in customer service. More

Darden Restaurants serves up the American dream

Darden Restaurants has built a culture that encourages each of its 180,000 employees to think big. More

Brighter days for First Solar

Solar panel manufacturer First Solar was punished in recent years by an industrywide collapse in prices. But now rising demand is boosting the company's sales -- and its stock price. More

All Yahoo's spending can't make it cool again

It's time for the Web 1.0 icon to put down its credit card and get back to work. More

How Apple sidestepped U.S. taxes: The Senate's version

The results of its probe of Apple's offshore taxes are now available online. More

Meet AOI, Apple's mysterious Irish subsidiary

In a statement to the Senate, Apple explains -- sort of -- what it's doing in Cork. More

Gabriel Gomez's private equity deal

U.S. Senate candidate's investment performance. More

Venture capitalism for spy games

In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm, partners with Silicon Valley to bring terrorism-fighting tech to market. More

The only Fortune 500 company that's grown faster than Apple

A big player in a low-profile business has outpaced the tech giant in both revenue growth and stock return. More

Lowe's is starting to nail it

Loomis Sayles's Warren Koontz thinks the housing rebound will propel the home-improvement giant to new heights. More

Yahoo-Tumblr: Who cares?

Too much is being made of the $1.1 billion acquisition. More

Yahoo's $1.1 billion acqui-hire of David Karp

Yahoo is formally buying Tumblr, but it's really buying Tumblr's leader. More

Is it worth it to train new employees?

Young people have many romantic notions about their first jobs. Perhaps the most poignant misconception is that employers will invest time in developing their skills. More

What's so hard about corporate change?

The most important ingredients of business change are hard to understand, difficult to put into effect, and often underestimated. More

Giving up cushy gigs to save lives in mid-air

Life Flight team members Joshua Sparks and Ed Shoemaker discuss what it's like to provide emergency medicine on a helicopter. More

The browser war is far from over

It's just gone mobile. More

Where online shopping is killing retail

High-tech meets low-tech (bike messengers!) as new Chinese consumers embrace online shopping. More

Bloom Energy still sees profits ... eventually

Fuel-cell maker Bloom had a tough first quarter. More

The IPO market is back -- for enterprise tech

The hottest trend in enterprise technology is fueling the market. More

An Apple bear calls a bottom

Sees the Inverse Head and Shoulders he's been waiting for. More

Pre-Marketing: What Yahoo will do with Tumblr

Also: How Wall St. defanged Dodd-Frank. And criminal charges weighed for SAC Capital. More

Keep selling Apple and buying Google?

Eight months of what CNBC calls the Great Rotation has led to some odd imbalances. More

When picking stocks, bet on pricing power

In a sluggish economy, companies that can demand more for their products have the best chance to grow earnings. More

Don't worry about today's retirees

It turns out that Americans in their sixties today have it better than any generation before them, but generations ahead have a less certain future. More

Fill 'er up ... with natural gas

A Chinese energy company builds a new kind of truck stop in America. More

John Kapon: Have bottle, will travel

CEO of wine retailer and auctioneer Acker Merrall & Condit, John Kapon, hydrates, arrives late, and gets up early. More

How should the class of 2013 spend their time?

A message to this year's college graduates. More

Sony battles back (Fortune 1985)

Buoyed by record profits, the company that invented the VCR -- then lost out to rivals -- shows it can still crank out high-tech magic. But Sony has yet to solve basic problems that hammered earnings before and could again. More

10 of America's hardest working vehicles

These cars and trucks double as cabs, cargo vans, and everything in between. More

How devoted are Apple users?

A new Forrester survey compares it to Google and Microsoft. More

Morgan Stanley's happy Facebook anniversary

CEO James Gorman has defied predictions that he would be forced out of the firm, and has nearly pulled off an amazing turnaround. More

After Sandberg, the big money is on women

Maybe Sheryl Sandberg really is building a new feminist movement. More

No-show judge bolsters Chevron's attack on $19 billion judgment

The Ecuadorian judge who awarded the environment judgment against Chevron was a no-show witness for a deposition in Peru. More

Ginni Rometty reveals the future of Watson

IBM's CEO told Fortune what the future holds for the talking supercomputer. More

Fortune Brainstorm Podcast: GM CEO Dan Akerson

If electric cars really are the future, does GM have what it takes to make a sexy green automobile? Akerson offers his vision for the auto giant's future product line. More

Blackberry is about to give away its last advantage

Its free messaging service is one of the struggling company's most valuable assets. More

Galaxy S4: 10M in 4 weeks. iPhone 5: 5M in 3 days.

When Apple reported record iPhone 5 sales, the stock began a six-month free fall. More

The big funds on Apple: Who bought and who sold last quarter

Total shares held fell 5.2%, but more funds increased than reduced their Apple holdings. More

Google Android's enterprise problem

Google's mobile operating system may be getting a boost from -- of all places -- Blackberry. More

Watch who Tim Cook talks to in the Washington press corps

In advance of Tuesday's Senate testimony, he gave interviews to Politico and the Washington Post -- but not, pointedly, to the New York Times. More

Automobiles ape the iPhone

Cars are one of the fastest-growing categories of connected devices -- and tech is cashing in. More

Crowdfunding tries to grow up

Will regulation and profiteering ruin the nascent crowdfunding industry -- or make it better? More

Meet your new password: Your voice

An increasing number of companies are looking at using voice for security. More

How Linux conquered the Fortune 500

Once dismissed, it now powers most of the Fortune 500 -- not to mention your television and smartphone. More

The $1 million mouse hunt

How a team from the University of Chicago clawed its way into the finals of the Rice Business Plan Competition. More

Can Silver Lake walk away from Dell?

Dell's earnings collapse could have an impact on its buyout deal. More

T. Rowe dumps some Dell

Dissident Dell shareholder loses a bit of its voice. More

Harsh anti-Abercrombie & Fitch video goes viral

Abercrombie brands itself as "exclusionary." And that means trouble. More

IRS scandal may unleash a flood of conservative donors

How money to conservative tax exempts triggered confusion and chaos inside the IRS -- and why the big bucks may be likely to surge. More

7 craft sodas? Or 7 Big Beverage vassals?

We love our weirdo regional sodas. While they may have local roots, many have joined beverage empires. More

J.P. Morgan's doubtful Dimon defense

J.P. Morgan's letter to shareholders defending Jamie Dimon's hold on the CEO-chair position not only missed its mark, it also unwittingly advanced their opponents' cause. More

Former Treasury official: Let's keep running big deficits

In a provocative new book, a former Wall Street CEO and Treasury official argues that the U.S. shouldn't worry about the ballooning national debt. This reviewer respectfully disagrees. More

Samsung: Get ready for 5G wireless

The Korean giant wants to deliver 5G network technology by 2020. More

Exclusive: Thomas H. Lee loses two senior investors

Chuck Brizius and Scott Jaeckel leave Boston buyout firm. More

Can you negotiate higher starting pay at a new job?

Maybe, says an executive recruiter, but the process takes lots of preparation, some practice, and setting the right tone. More

A better fingerprint scanner for frequent flyers

The company that supplies Global Entry, the government-run trusted traveler program, has begun production of a more user-friendly machine. More

Windows Phone beats Blackberry for third

Google's Android and Apple's iOS still make up the vast majority of the market. More

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