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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

A hole in JPMorgan's Dimon defense

Jamie Dimon's supporters want shareholders to focus on the bank's bottom line. They're hoping they will miss some accounting moves that have significantly boosted profits. 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

Tim Cook to testify on taxes: Did the N.Y. Times have it wrong?

Next week we'll find out what a Senate probe of Apple's offshore holdings has uncovered. More

Coffee shop, contained

Starbucks redesigns its cafés, and the whole idea of what a store can be. More

Break up Sony? It's harder than it looks

Until recently takeover bids were rare in Japan, where private equity and hedge funds have been traditionally viewed as vultures. More

Larry Page's kumbaya moment sounded hollow

Google's CEO decried the negativity in the tech industry. Too bad the company's executives have a long history of trashing the competition. More

OTOY: Bringing the big screen experience to browsers

The brainchild of scrappy programmer Jules Urbach took a stealthy development route, and guess what? It might pay off. More

Pre-Marketing: JPMorgan shareholders lose visibility

The case for dual-class stock; of course hedge funds lose money; and, big IPO for Tableau Software. More

GE gets back to basics

After a long journey into, well, a little bit of just about everything, industrial giant General Electric returns to industry. More

Google: We're still a software company

At its annual I/O conference, Google showcased a number of software updates yet almost nothing new in hardware. Play

Briefings of the day: U.S.A. vs. Apple Inc.

In the DOJ's great e-book conspiracy, Apple is the sole defendant still standing. More

Google Plus wants to kill Apple iPhoto

Google is betting its algorithms can enhance your snapshots. More

AP-Justice Dept. fallout: The press should quit its bellyaching

Good journalism can act as a brake on excess. But that doesn't mean government is supposed to be a willing participant in the violation of its own laws. More

Meet the man who figures Apple is worth $240 a share

What does David Trainer know about Apple that nobody else does? More

Google takes aim at Spotify and Pandora

Its new music service -- Google Play Music All Access -- has features that are similar to both competitors. More

Why only half of Americans gain from the stock market party

Fewer Americans have a stake in the stock market, and unemployment may be preventing more from investing in equities. More

Tableau Software raises IPO stakes

Tableau's venture capital backers getting ready for a monster return. More

Newspapers' only hope? Quality

Newspaper owners will have to accept lower margins in return for the privilege of serving the public interest. More

Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test?

Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades. More

How Change.org taps into the crowd

Change.org founder Ben Rattray talks about how his petitions website is able to attract users and investors. More

Traders are freaked by Bloomberg message leak

Wall Street mostly shrugged off the Bloomberg snooping story. Then many users were alarmed when they found out messages had been posted online. More

What Gartner says privately about Apple's next 3 years

In a note to buy-side analysts, it predicts Apple will easily beat the Street's consensus. More

Judge to CMEA Capital: No arbitration for you

Sexual harassment case against VC firm can proceed. More

Enron: The real story behind Jeff Skilling's big sentence reduction

The surprising news that he could get 10 years off his jail time results from years of legal wrangling. More

Where is Calpers's governance when you need it?

The pension system doesn't look quite so ignorant of what was going on in its hallways. More

The secret to making Big Data work

The deluge of data being created by consumers is great. But one thing is missing to make it worth something to companies: good design. More

A tough boss's secret behind her style

NYC mayoral candidate Christine Quinn talks about learning to accept her learning to accept her own leadership style More

Making money after the big sports contract ends

Mark Teixeira, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Randy Johnson made big money in Major League Baseball. Now they discuss the business ventures they've pursued outside of sports. More

How Change.org profits from petitions

Change.org founder Ben Rattray talks to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about how his petitions website is able to attract users and investors. Play

A fresh look at annuities

Times have changed, and there are new reasons to consider products that provide steady income. More

The great expatriate hiring boom

When it comes to finding and keeping top managers in emerging markets like China, it's a sellers' market. More

Florida woman sues Apple for $5 million under racketeering law

Wouldn't it have been easier for Apple to replace her out-of-warranty iPhone 4? More

So you want to be a Fortune 500 company...

Most businesses never make the revenue threshold, which is just over $4.8 billion this year. But the few that do share five crucial traits. More

Facebook: Please don't buy Waze

One user's reasons for wanting the small mapping company to stay independent. More

Is Apple's iPhone really 'dead in the water'?

Some would have you think so. More

A $100 million plan to save cities from the next Sandy

The non-profit Rockefeller Foundation will hand out grants to urban centers around the world that come up with ideas to limit damage from weather-related catastrophes.
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Did Thermo Fisher know about the drug cartel in its midst?

The private equity 'drug deal' that should have never happened. More

New York City's Christine Quinn wants no B.S.

New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn joined Fortune's Most Powerful Women community in New York for a candid discussion over dinner. More

What's missing from tax reform debate: A level playing field

Businesses organized as partnerships account for 35% of all sales. So why are we taxing them at higher rates than other corporations? More

Jack Dorsey: 'We are optimizing for growth'

Square CEO Jack Dorsey spoke to Fortune exclusively about his company's new hardware, Stand, a $299 countertop point of sale system. More

Square unveils Stand, a countertop point of sale system

The fast-growing payments startup is making an aggressive play for larger retailers. More

The business wires' new verbal tic: Apple is 'losing steam'

First Bloomberg, now Reuters, have boiled Apple down to a two-word editorial formula. More

6 big unanswered questions in the Bloomberg spying case

Bloomberg scandal may cause "grey dotting" on Wall Street to go mainstream. More

Shapeways is reinventing the factory

A glimpse of the future -- printed in 3-D -- in Long Island City. More

Apple approaches 50 billion app downloads

The odometer could roll over before midnight Wednesday. More

For chipmakers -- new leaders, same battle

Intel's new CEO starts Thursday. Chip maker ARM's begins later this year. The only thing not changing? What they're fighting for. More

High-tech shampoo, via the Department of Energy

Scientific solutions for tricky problems facing Fortune 500 companies can come from - believe it or not -- the U.S. government. More

Fortune 500 companies that secretly run your life

These companies may not get a lot of attention, but they define the course of our lives in more ways than you might imagine. More

Another sign car-sharing is heating up

Why RelayRides is buying Wheelz. More

Trailing indicators: Analysts' price targets vs. Apple's shares

Do analysts' forecasts really predict Apple's future or merely reflect the recent past? More

Never forget where you parked again

Startup Automatic wants to make your iPhone your car's cerebral cortex. More

10 contenders for America's top truck

For years, Ford has safely ruled America's pickup market. Now that truck buyers are back, it's getting a lot more competition. More

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