Businessweek

Corrections & Clarifications

• Corrections & Clarifications From Prior Issues

News - Global Economics

• China May Finally Let Its People Move More Freely

  The household registration—or hukou—system has outlived its usefulness

• Growth in the 'Sand States'

  Arizona, California, Florida, and Nevada were hammered by the real estate bust. Now hiring is up

• Brazil Wins Soccer Games: How Will It Host Them?

  "The works are not delayed, almost all of them are well advanced," says Brazil's Sports Minister

• Iran's Sanctions Payoff: Real Estate Is Hot

  Buying gold, dollars, and euros is out. The only option is to build

• New York's Low Bonuses May Signal Lower Condo Prices

  A down year for Wall Street bonus checks will likely be a blow to the Big Apple's luxury real estate market

• Hong Kong's Election Committee Puzzles Over Its Choice

  The campaign for chief executive is muddied by scandal and popular ire—and Beijing's preferred candidate is unknown

• Seven Days

  Events of note in the week ahead

News - Companies & Industries

• Is Nike's Flyknit the Swoosh of the Future?

  Its new running shoe is spun, not sewn, reducing materials, time, and labor

• London Taxis' Next Stop: Azerbaijan

  The maker of the iconic cabs is expanding in emerging markets

• SABMiller Tries Selling African Home-Brew

  Its milky Chibuku beer targets lower-income consumers

• Outsourcing: A Passage Out of India

  Front-office jobs shift to Latin America and eastern Europe

• Briefs

  Yahoo! sues Facebook; Volvo wants Jeremy Lin's endorsement; Encyclopedia Britannica goes online-only; and more

News - Politics & Policy

• Beware Politicians Bearing Election-Year Trade Deals

  Backers of Asian import tariffs say they save jobs. Do they?

• Wine, the New State Secret

  Why the White House is keeping mum about what it's pouring at state dinners

• Suing for Damages? Bring Your Lobbyist

  Florida plaintiffs need more than a lawyer to get around a sovereign immunity law that limits damages

• Pepsi Levies a Sin Tax on Its Workers

  PepsiCo workers object to a $50 fee tied to smoking and obesity

• Health Care Act at the Supreme Court

  A primer for the high court's review of the Affordable Care Act

News - Technology

• Anarchy in the App Store

  With 600,000 apps to police, Apple has trouble keeping up with rule breakers

• As SXSW Ends, Austin Ventures Goes to Work

  The venture fund is focused on local talent, but has designs on Silicon Valley

• SXSW, a Davos for the Web Set

  Five lessons from the South by Southwest Interactive festival

• IBM on a Mission to Save the Planet

  Smarter Planet ads coincide with a big run-up in the tech giant's shares

• The Legal Madness Around NCAA Bracket Pools

  Why online bracket sites can pick your teams but won't accept pool money

• Frances Arnold's Directed Evolution

  The Caltech professor pioneered a method to evolve proteins not found in nature. The mutated proteins help numerous businesses

News - Markets & Finance

• Carlyle's Owners Get a Pre-IPO Payday

  The buyout firm borrows money to award its owners a $400 million dividend before its IPO

• Funds Hope to Cash In on Japanese Cuisine

  The global popularity of Japanese food has investors targeting returns as high as 7 percent

• JPMorgan Cracks the Mutual Fund Top 10

  Marketing, more than performance, helps assets climb to $139 billion

• Acapulco, Another Mexican Drug War Casualty

  A spike in homicides hits the beach resort's real estate market—and developer Sare Holding

• What Greece Can Learn From Argentina's Default

  A legal odyssey, but no payouts yet to creditors who rejected a bond swap offer

• Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week

  Iceland Foods' CEO buys the supermarket chain from its owners; Zynga plans a secondary stock offering; and more

• Charlie Rose Talks to George Osborne

  Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer is optimistic about Europe and determined, as he prepares to release a budget, to stay the course on austerity

Focus On Energy

• Firing Up China's Solar Market

  As solar panel prices fall, Chinese manufacturers are boosting domestic sales

• Jatropha: A Green Fuel Awash in Red Ink

  The oil seed has burned farmers and investors alike

• SandRidge Bets Against Shale in the Oil Patch

  CEO Tom Ward is bucking the industry by sticking with traditional fields

• Al Gore on Climate Change Risk

  The former Vice President argues that energy investments today may be similar to subprime mortgages