Brian Dumaine
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Ahead of big tech’s antitrust hearing, tech experts predict Facebook’s and Amazon’s fates
Commentary: Ahead of big tech's congressional hearing, tech experts predict Facebook's and Amazon's fates. → Read More
Amazon was built for the pandemic—and will likely emerge from it stronger than ever
Amazon, led by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, is a data-driven colossus and now America’s second-largest company. Here's how it has moved swiftly to adjust to the coronavirus crisis. → Read More
It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech
FOUR SHORT YEARS AGO, was merely a ferociously successful online retailer and the dominant provider of online web hosting for companies. It also sold its own line of consumer electronics devices, including the Kindle e-reader, a bold but understandably complimentary outgrowth of its pioneering role as a next-generation bookseller. Today, thanks to the ubiquitous Amazon […] → Read More
Amazon, Google & Apple Are Battling for Voice Recognition Dominance
It will be the biggest technology shift since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone. → Read More
Wind Power Takes to the Seas
The first U.S. offshore wind-power project by Deepwater is up and running, backed by hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Is it a sign of things to come? → Read More
Coal power is on the way out—divestment or not
Governments’ move to sell coal stocks is coming late. → Read More
Big business creates a new non-profit to help fix climate change
A growing number of influential business and government leaders now believe that it will be possible to expand the global economy while meeting our climate goals. But the real challenge is exactly ... → Read More
Start-up contest: Seeking the next energy star
It’s hard today even to glance at a business publication without reading about a heavily backed clean-tech startup that is killing it—think Tesla, SolarCity, and SunEdison. But what about those... → Read More
Why Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and others are betting on fusion
For more than half a century governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion. In theory it could provide a cheap, clean, and almost boundless source of energy... → Read More
Why Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and others are betting on fusion
For more than half a century governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion. In theory it could provide a cheap, clean, and almost boundless source of energy... → Read More
This investor is chasing a new kind of fusion
A prominent North Carolina investor is backing a new kind of fusion that operates at much lower temperatures than thought possible, which would make it easier to commercialize. So far the early results show promise. → Read More
Are you a hero of the Circular Economy?
This week, the Pope will visit America with global warming on his mind, and New York City will host a gathering of notables for Climate Week 2015. So perhaps it’s a good time to take note of what... → Read More
Can a (billionaire) hedge fund manager fix income inequality?
Famed investor Paul Tudor Jones believes that we’re headed for trouble if we don’t shrink the wealth gap. His solution? Pressure companies to be more just. → Read More
How Coke and Pepsi face-off in conservation efforts
Neither of the longtime beverage rivals made Fortune's Change the World list. But both have serious ambitions when it comes to conserving water. Which one does it better? → Read More
U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s, and that’s a very big deal
You don’t need to a Nobel Prize in economics to know that the fracking revolution has been good for the U.S. What’s not so well known is just how competitive cheap oil and gas has made American... → Read More
Why America is betting big on bullet trains
Compared with China, Europe, and Japan, the U.S. lags badly when it comes to high-speed rail. Can new projects proposed in California, Florida, and Texas get the nation back on track? → Read More
Billionaires versus big oil
A growing number of the world’s wealthiest people, From both ends of the political spectrum, are banding together to bet on new technologies that could displace fossil fuels. The one thing they have in common? They believe it will make them a lot of money. → Read More
How the Tea Party is learning to love Al Gore— or at least his energy policy
I have been covering the environment for more than a decade, and I’ve rarely encountered such strange bedfellows as I did this week at “The Future of Energy Summit 2015,” a conference... → Read More
With oil and gas prices falling, is a Nest “smart” thermostat still worth the money?
Heating bills are lower this winter. That might make shelling out $249 for a fancy device harder to justify. But Google says it has proof that you’ll save money in the end. → Read More
One startup's big idea for clean energy: lots of small financing
Jigar Shah, the entrepreneur behind solar powerhouse SunEdison, has a new company called Generate Capital that aims to provide capital for other forms of clean tech. → Read More