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The most expensive police auction in history is about to take place in Dubai, including a limited edition Ferrari Enzo

What fast-growing companies need is strategic thinking--not strategic planning. Here are three things smaller companies can do to develop an adaptive, opportunistic approach to strategy.

By Maha El Dahan and Daniel Fineren ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe.

Steve Abrams bought Manhattan's Magnolia Bakery in 2007. Now he's got big expansion plans, with stores in New York, L.A., Dubai & beyond. Advertisement: Start winning new customers today

The Indians are Silicon Valley's most successful immigrants. What have they done right, and what can women and other races learn from them?

I was in the back of my Mitsubishi truck, in Dubai, when it hit me: We might never get paid for this job. Here's what I should have done differently

About a year and a half after unveiling his first hotel venture in Dubai, Italian clothing designer Giorgio Armani opened his second hotel, in Milan, on November 10. The new property, Armani Hotel Milano, has 95 rooms and suites (about $750 to $15,000 per night), a restaurant, and a bar ...

Readers respond to our story about the constant feeling of crisis that is entrepreneurship in Argentina, and others. Risky Business Our story about doing business in Argentina [" A Constant Feeling of Crisis ," June] garnered a mixed reaction from readers on Hacker News and Inc.com, many of whom are U.S. expats running businesses in South America

A new OpenNet Initiative study has found that internet censorship is prevalent in Muslim-majority countries...

Need to get from Aspen , Colorado to Miami? How about Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the person to call is Adriann Wanner, president and co-founder of evoJets , an upstart private-jet charter company

Officials from the women's European Tour say Michelle Wie will end her season at Dubai in the final event of the year.

Need to get from Aspen, Colorado, to Miami? How about from Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the private-jet service to call is evoJets

The gourmet-cupcake craze may never die -- damn its adorable deliciousness! -- but that hasn't stopped whoopie pies, macaroons, and doughnuts from vying for the sweets spotlight recently.

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls. Fast Company recently had the opportunity to speak with David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree , on the use of his company's popular Hotspot Shield software during the Arab Spring. Although Hotspot Shield is best known as a product used to access services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer across national borders, it also played a crucial role in organizing uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.

A new social network, MyCube, thinks that we devalue our information when we give it away for free. Founded by Swedish entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein, MyCube offers users the chance to monetize their data, through advertising or a system of "nanopayments." Johan Staël von Holstein doesn't seem to like Mark Zuckerberg. "I have 5,000 friends on Facebook," says the Swedish-born entrepreneur , who lives in Singapore, but was about to board a flight from Barcelona to Germany, and then to Dubai, when we spoke by phone