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Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?

The team sitting around the table at Groupon’s Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the…
AUTHOR:Ben Popper
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
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The Big Short War

Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman has vowed to bring down Herbalife, the 33-year-old nutritional-supplement company, which he views as a pyramid scheme. With his massive shorting of Herbalife stock, the…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7492 words)

The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3074 words)

The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

In 2004, David Kushner's book Masters of Doom provided readers with an unprecedented inside look at id Software and the creation of the industry-shaping first-person shooter Doom. Next month,…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3229 words)
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