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Japan's Digital Casinos Are Closing

Mobile game leaders edge into other fields as they lose ground to Chinese and Korean rivals.

How Low Can Faang Stocks Go?

Recent Silicon Valley selloffs weren’t temporary skittishness. They’re the new state of things.

Softbank Upends Sand Hill Road

Sand Hill Road was once the only address for startups seeking capital. Now all roads lead to SoftBank's Masayoshi Son

The Future Of In-Housing

Media agencies and marketers debate clients taking programmatic in-house.

IBM's $34b Red Hat Deal Is Risky Bid To Boost Cloud Business

IBM’s plan to buy Red Hat is both the biggest acquisition in IBM’s century-long history and a risky effort to position itself as a major player in cloud computing.

Two Legends Talk Shop

Panera Breads Ron Shaich and Kinds Daniel Lubetzky discuss creativity, control, and the future of entrepreneurialism.

Paper Utopias

Embedded in the cerebral folds of every city planner who’s ever lived, there’s a cluster of neurons that lights up like Las Vegas when confronted with the possibility of a blank slate.

Kai-Fu Lee

The chairman and chief executive officer of Sinovation Ventures says America’s technology industry can’t afford to underestimate the artificial intelligence companies he’s funding in China. Lee, a Taiwan native, has spent most of his professional life in China, but he lived for a quarter-century in the U.S. before becoming a venture capitalist, and he’s worked for Apple, Microsoft, and Google on one side of the Pacific or the other. Lee spoke with Bloomberg Businessweek shortly before the official release of his book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. His comments have been condensed and edited.

Crypto In Kenya

At the Sifa Children’s Center, shacks made of corrugated metal serve as classrooms for some 300 pupils, circling an expanse of dusty, hardpacked earth that’s both playground and meeting space. Beyond the school stretches Gatina, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi. Headmaster Francis Wanjala is standing in an unused classroom studying his phone; he’s just learned how to trade a blockchain-based digital token.

A Way To Thank Them For Their Service

Her care packages let deployed service members know they are appreciated.

The Best List

WONDERING WHICH FUNDS ARE BEST TO SMOOTH OUT MARKET VOLATILITY AND FIGHT rising inflation, or which stocks to buy in an aging bull market? Looking for the credit card with the most-lucrative rewards or the cell-phone plan that offers the most bang for your buck? We’ve got you covered. Our staff compiled their top picks for stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds for times like these; credit cards, banks, tax software and cell-phone plans for all types of users; tech that will protect you from identity thieves; and websites that will save you money on everything from prescription drugs to hotels.

Kiplinger Dividend 15: Our Top Dividend Picks

The Dividend 15 celebrates its first birthday with just one change.

Airline Fees Gain Altitude

Think you’re getting a low fare? Add up the extras before you buy.

Video Advertising And Technology Go Hand In Hand

Unique content resonates with clients and audiences.

Walmart Makes Improvements To Third-party Marketplace

Walmart says it will work with third-party sellers to make millions of items available for free two-day shipping on orders over $35.

How To Hire A PR Firm

Getting the word out about your business—to both consumers and potential franchisees—is crucial. But working with a PR agency is an intimate experience. Here are three stories about finding the right chemistry.

It's never Too Late For A Second Act

How to start something new late in your career and still protect your retirement.

Is CBD Bigger Than Marıȷuana?

A new report predicts it will be. Here’s what entrepreneurs need to know.

What's In A Name?

How changing client needs are erasing the identities of agencies.

India's New Unicorns Aren't Just Clones

The country’s latest generation of $1 billion startups has more seriously tailored services to local needs

50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship isn’t easy. It requires bold action. On the following pages, we spotlight 50 entrepreneurs who dared to go big in the past year—and who can inspire us all to dare even bigger.

How Female Founders Can Combat Bias

Research shows that investors put female founders on the defensive more than they do their male counterparts. Now theres a strategy to turn the conversation around.

Companies Warm Up To Worker Retraining

A tight labor market forces businesses to spend more to develop their employees’ skills

Attention, InstaShoppers!

The photo-sharing site is warming up to commerce, but will consumers buy in?

How Dietrich Mateschitz Turned An Energy Drink Into An Empire

How Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz turned an energy drink into an empire

Banish Payroll Headaches With Outsourcing Options

SMB leaders need to spend more time on business-critical activities and less on admin tasks. Payroll services solutions can help.

New Tesla Chair Must Rein In CEO Musk At Key Moment

It wont be an easy job.

ABC Entertainment President On Diversity and Competing With Netflix

After an unexpectedly high-profile year abc entertainment president channing dungey speaks about diversity, streaming and keeping the peace betweens how runners and executives.

Space: China's Final Frontier

It's building a commercial industry focused on sending small payloads into orbit.

15 Ambitious Upstarts That Are Disrupting The Status Quo

There must be a better waya solution thats more cost efficient, less stress inducing, more socially beneficial and less environmentally destructive. | The founders of the feisty, status quo-defying brands in Adweeks first-ever Challenger Brands issue started with precepts like these, identifying pain points in industries as varied as home insurance, group exercise, dentalhealth and womens cosmetics and finding completely new answers to everyday consumer problems. Now that they havesome with nine-figure revenue to show for their effortsall eyes are on them. | You get pressure from the top because the big guys wake up, says Courtney Nichols Gould, co-founder of Smarty Pants Vitamins, and theres pressure from below because youve cleared the decks. | See from these 15 examples how all that compaction created some fairly fabulous diamonds.