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Tough Times Spur Shifts in Corporate R&D Spending August 09, 2010

(Adds spending data including R&D outsourced from other U.S. companies and done at domestic locations in 2008 and 2007 in the second paragraph. Corrects changes in ...

A Costly Payday for Weyerhaeuser Shareholders? July 12, 2010

The prospect of a company's declaring a special dividend valued at $5.6 billion—and higher regular dividends in the future due to a tax-exempt corporate ...

Global Beermakers Eye U.S. Craft Brewers' Growth August 04, 2010

U.S. beer drinkers want to try new, tasty beers, and they're not dissuaded by the weak economy or higher prices. In the first half of 2010, sales volume at craft ...

As World Millionaires Multiply, Singapore Holds Its Lead June 02, 2011

Singapore seems modest by some measures: Median income among working households was only about S$5,700 (about US$4,500) in 2010, according to the Singapore Department ...

A College Degree Is Still Worth It March 20, 2011

It wasn't all that long ago—the 1980s and '90s—when hardly anyone questioned the value of a college degree. Sure, a couple of skeptics liked to point out that neither ...

Deficit Could Reshape Retirement Funding February 17, 2011

Republicans and Democrats in Washington are starting to battle in earnest over how to cut the federal government's discretionary spending. Eventually the ominous ...

The Supercycle: A Longer Range View of Emerging Markets June 09, 2011

(Corrects Morningstar data in seventh paragraph.) Lots of investors say they adopt a long view, usually three to five years, when it comes to a particular investment. ...

Bonds: How to Play Interest Rate Peril June 23, 2011

Interest rates can turn quickly, as the Greek government learned when its 10-year bond soared more than 9 percentage points in the past year on default worries. Such ...

The U.S. Needs a Jobs Agenda Now May 17, 2011

In 1992 a relatively unknown Arkansas governor beat an incumbent President who a year earlier had been riding high in the polls after a huge victory in the First Gulf ...

Virtual Shopping in 3D June 07, 2011

Linda Smith walked on stage at the Spring 2011 Demo Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Feb. 28 and tried on clothes. Looking at herself in an interactive mirror, ...

Microsoft Kinect Lures Hackers June 07, 2011

(This story was corrected to show that the developer kit will be available at a later date.)Matt Bell moves about an elevated podium in a conference room overlooking ...

Quincy Cashes in on the Cloud May 02, 2011

Inside a white metal fence laced with barbed wire on the outskirts of Quincy, in central Washington state, a construction crew maneuvers excavators that scoop up giant...

Can the FT Help Publishers Quit Their Apple Addiction? June 08, 2011

Ever since the iPhone and iPad arrived, publishers have spent millions building dedicated software to try to cash in on the app boom. Everyone who was anyone—from the ...

Comics Should Embrace iOS Subscriptions May 27, 2011

Magazine apps appear to be enjoying quite the bump, thanks to the introduction of in-app subscriptions to select titles. Wired, for example, is the fifth top-grossing ...

Here's Spotify's Master Plan: Tackle iTunes Head-On May 05, 2011

A couple of weeks ago Spotify, the European music streaming startup, came in for sharp criticism when it made the decision to place tight limits on the music you could...