The Plot to Steal the Color White From DuPont
How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.
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How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.
Del Quentin Wilber Bloomberg Business Feb 2016 15min Permalink
Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.
Charlie Devereux, Franz Wild, and Edward Robinson Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 10min Permalink
How the 130-year-old game company bounced back with the Switch.
Felix Gillette Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 15min Permalink
What happened at OneTaste?
Ellen Huet Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 20min Permalink
Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Business May 2018 15min Permalink
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business May 2018 25min Permalink
Why would a billionaire go wear a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that’s impossible to buy.
Zachary Mider Bloomberg Business Mar 2018 15min Permalink
Baba Ramdev renounced the material world twenty-three years ago to become a Hindu ascetic. Now he’s on TV selling toothpaste, instant noodles, and toilet cleaners and the company he is believed to control is poised to become the biggest consumer goods seller in India.
Ben Crair Bloomberg Business Mar 2018 15min Permalink
Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.
Matthew Campbell Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 20min Permalink
A trip to the White House briefing room and Steve Bannon’s living room.
Michael Lewis Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 35min Permalink
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver, Sarah Frier Bloomberg Business Dec 2017 10min Permalink
The consumer giant looks to social responsibility in the age of big business.
Thomas Buckley Bloomberg Business Aug 2017 15min Permalink
The dark, tangled truths coming to light thanks to subterranean cartography.
Greg Milner Bloomberg Business Aug 2017 15min Permalink
Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.
Clint Rainey Bloomberg Business Jul 2017 10min Permalink
A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.
Simon Akam Bloomberg Business May 2017 15min Permalink
The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. Now they are suing for $400 million.
Robert Kolker Bloomberg Business Apr 2017 15min Permalink
Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States.
Caroline Winter Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.
Zeke Faux Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
“It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.”
Felix Gillette, Jennifer Kaplan, Sam Chambers Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?
Monte Reel Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 20min Permalink
Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”
Patrick Clark Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.
Katherine Burton Bloomberg Business Nov 2016 15min Permalink
The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink
“Today it’s a mosquito. Tomorrow God only knows what is going to happen.”
Robert Kolker Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink
The Libyan Investment Authority was brand new, staffed by people who barely understood finance and had billions to invest. Goldman Sachs saw a whale. Now the Libyans want their money back.
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business Sep 2016 20min Permalink