A skyscraper's solidity, undercut by transparency.
Thousands of Beijing families are getting ready to move into homes in the vicinity of sought-after schools, so their children have a better chance of being admitted.
Buying gadgets can require sorting through options. Do you go for the faster processor or more memory?
What if you threw a $41million party and nobody came? A start-up company called Color knows how that feels.
While Silicon Valley and Wall Street debate whether a new technology bubble is in the making, some early Facebook employees are not taking any chances.
Faster, better, smarter. No, not humans, but perhaps everything else.
At 100, I.B.M. looks remarkably spry. Consumer technologies get all the attention these days, but I.B.M. has thrived by selling to corporations and governments.
India has 1.2 billion people, among them bankers, gurus, rag pickers, billionaires and software engineers. What it needs is a hangman.
Community mediators have long played a key role in maintaining peace in Chinese neighborhoods.
One early morning Wang Qingqing found her husband, sleeping with another woman.