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Today Germany is the Big Loser, Not Greece

By Marshall Auerback  Given the German electorate’s long standing aversion to “fiscal profligacy” and soft currency economics (said to lead inexorably to Weimar style…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2592 words)

How Hewlett-Packard lost its way

By James Bandler with Doris Burke FORTUNE -- A few months after she took over as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) last September, Meg Whitman held one in a series of get-to-know-you meetings with…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2012
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7815 words)

Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid

Windows 8's new user interface has proven nothing short of polarizing. The hybrid operating system pairs a new GUI concept, the touch-friendly Metro interface, to the traditional windows, icons,…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2174 words)

What Your Klout Score Really Means

Photo: Garry McLeod Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for major brands like AOL, Ford, and Kraft,…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (881 words)

Seattle Mitt Romney, American Parasite

James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony. It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3836 words)

How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR's shadow to become an internet titan

A Nato cyberwarfare base in Tallinn set up after Estonia's internet access was paralysed by DOS attacks blamed on Russia. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian In 1995, four years after…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1791 words)
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