The one bright spot in M&A in 2008 are drugmakers, where giant pharmaceutical companies are paying record amounts for biotechs to replenish their pipelines. ( more)
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Once a dusty old family luggage business, Prada is now of haute couture's most influential voices. Here's a look at the label's top industry-shaping designs. ( more)
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Economic downturns have done wonders for the box office. Here are some of the greatest movies to hit the big screen during market slumps. ( more)
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Every city has one - a retail thoroughfare that houses the most exclusive stores. Real estate slowdown or not, these luxury corridors are still thriving - for now, at least. ( more)
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Fortune's second annual Luxury Portfolio features the moguls, merchants and master craftsmen who are defining the business of luxury. ( more)
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If you're doing business at 40,000 feet, you should have the right plane. Here are four of the most wanted. ( more)
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The Saudi government is planning four new cities to serve its exploding population and make its economy less dependent on oil. ( more)
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These software programs help you do everything calculate your carbon footprint to remotely monitor your home. ( more)
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When Royal Caribbean launches its $1.2 billion 'Oasis of the Sea' in 2009, it will carry up to 5,400 passengers and will be as tall as a 12-story building, as long as four football fields, and wider than the Panama Canal. ( more)
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Or is it digging? Or ninging? Zyng-ing? A rundown of some Web 2.0 startups getting a lot of buzz, if not necessarily a lot of revenues. ( more)
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One year after the credit crunch began, Fortune looks back at who saw trouble ahead, and who just ended up in trouble. ( more)
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Over the past half century, Chrysler's hot cars have dug it out of the holes its bombs keep getting it into. ( more)
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The frailest of Detroit's automakers has been in private hands for a year. CEO Bob Nardelli badly needs a hit if the company is to endure. ( more)
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The former Bear Stearns CEO speaks out for the first time since the firm's collapse, presenting his version of how things went wrong. ( more)
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The Detroit automaker's whopping $15.5 billion quarterly loss Friday wasn't a record, but it's the latest chapter in a steady slide that began more than 20 years ago. ( more)
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Comic-con is both a Mecca for the people who love (and dress like) superheroes and villains, and, arguably, Hollywood's biggest marketing event of the year. Should it also be a public charity? By Richard Siklos, editor at large ( more)
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Kleiner Perkins' investments defined the Internet's first generation, but the firm has been absent from the biggest deals among the next generation of Internet companies. These are the men picking up the Web deals while Kleiner goes green. ( more)
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Kleiner Perkins has long defined the gold standard for venture capital. The Kleiner hit parade stretches back 36 years and includes early bets on industry icons like Genentech, Amazon and Google. Here are a few of the bets that made it famous, as well as some it might like to forget. ( more)
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