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Once an unlikely rival for HP and Apple, Chinese computer maker Lenovo has grown and adapted as quickly as its homeland. Now, with a savvy blend of East and West, it's poised to be China's first global brand. Leading the PC maker's pursuit of new markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing believes in "replaying the chess board" to keep improving

Magazine preview: China's first global brand is on the cusp of a critical transition. Which computer maker this year introduced three new tablets , a speedy new smartphone, an edgy new global branding campaign , and the launch of an outer space science competition with Google

If Startup America is to succeed, it needs start-ups to eschew the Bay Area. But there's no shortage of skeptics in the idea a "Silicon Prairie" will emerge

Members of the Millennial generation say they're ready to start companies, but the soft economy is stopping them. Bad excuse

Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.

Cliff Schertz decided that Mexico was a better spot than India to locate his software start-up. Here's how he got it going in record time.

The biggest areas of opportunity for companies hoping to set up a digital shop for Chinese consumers? Price comparison, trust, and a solid returns policy.

Scores of initiatives are helping veterans get back to work. Here's how your business can help. American veterans returned from war to face an altogether different type of battle: finding a job

How a 55-person business in Minnetonka developed the software solution India needed to tackle its energy problems. Pull out your world map and smack in the middle of the eastern hemisphere lies India, that colossal diamond-shaped country brimming with more than 1.2 billion people—the majority of whom are under the age of 35. Its economy is growing like gangbusters, it is now an influential member of the G20, and foreign firms have made significant investments there.

Praemittias CEO Randy Stover sometimes felt that each new hire he made was a gamble. Not so with veterans, he says: "I know what I'm getting." Have you ever wished that you could put potential employees through a truly rigorous vetting process instead of reading off the list of "approved" questions provided by your HR staff

Escolar masquerading as white tuna. Flounder passing for Vietnamese catfish

Pat Button , a former registered nurse and bed-and-breakfast proprietress, took a non-traditional route to transforming health care as chief nursing officer of Zynx Health . After climbing the corporate ladder at electronic medical-records company

Some people, like Joe Romm , want more coverage on climate change. For me, climate change is one of those subjects that I actually try to ignore.

In the wake of Airbnb's home-vandal scandal, start-ups in the collaborative consumption space are rebuilding peer-to-peer buying's reputation. Here's how. Airbnb found itself in a public relations nightmare this summer that threatened to undermine its whole ethos of amiable and unique person-to-person connections

By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate on Wednesday that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. [More]