The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation? Carleen Hawn
Berkshire Hathaway's $1.7 billion acquisition of a mobile-home company seemed like a perfect match. Then shareholders got a look, and a folksy tale suddenly turned ugly. Jennifer Reingold
For a view of how wireless telecom will change the way we work and live, head to San Diego--where everyone from pharmacists to real-estate brokers is now coming unplugged. Alison Overholt
Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. Given that, we wonder: What are its responsibilities to the rest of the world? And how do companies act on those responsibilities? Christine Canabou
Since the collapse of the initial-public-offering market in 2000, the venture capital business has been positively toxic. So who would keep making deals in such an environment? Well, the biggest name in venture capital these days isn't a traditional VC firm at all. Nate Nickerson
When IBM's research division hired Martin Wattenberg, it asked him to perform an act of alchemy: Transform tangles of Internet data into crystal-clear pictures. Scott Kirsner
The Customer is King. The customer is always right. Every company with a shred of marketing savvy says it believes the old saws. But how many actually make them real? Jennifer Esty
