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Technology Special Report: The Future of Retailing

With e-commerce gaining steadily, bricks-and-mortar outfits are embracing new technologies to keep shoppers spending. Plus: The RFID revolution, and using tech to squeeze every penny out of inventory


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Retail Outlook
Will weakness in housing and rising energy prices mean consumers are running out of gas? We talk with a retail analyst and a consumer expert about the outlook for the holiday season

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Best Global Brands
These 100 brands are among the world's most recognized—and most valuable

Best Places to Launch a Career
We canvassed career-services directors, employers, and students to rank the best companies for recent graduates

BusinessWeek 50
Our picks of the top-performing companies from the S&P 500. Plus, regional rankings for Asia and Europe:
Asia's BusinessWeek 50
Europe's BusinessWeek 50

Customer Service Champs
Companies that excel at pleasing customers, based on J.D. Power & Associates customer satisfaction data and our own reader survey

Hot Growth 100
From young, upstart companies to those that have been around for centuries: Plus, regional rankings of top-performing small businesses in Asia and Europe:
Asia's Hot Growth 100
Europe's Hot Growth 100

Info Tech 100
Emerging-market cellular players, wireless phone and gear makers, and Web giants are this year's stars

World's Most Innovative Companies
Nurturing, creative cultures allow these companies to wow customers with innovative products and services

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Don't Go Long on Short Skirts
An old theory insists that rising hemlines mean the bulls are charging. But with high oil prices, skyrocketing health-care costs, a sluggish job market, and the threat of terrorism hanging over the market, that old wisdom isn't holding up these days
Nokia's Goal: Building a Cell-Phone Planet
The Finnish giant is looking beyond the developed world for new growth. Its strategy for creating a ubiquitous wireless market stresses emerging countries -- and rock-bottom prices


No Heat for the IT 100 in August
Despite Google's coming-out party, BusinessWeek's index of top tech companies had very little to cheer about as the summer wore on. Notable laggards include Intel and Oracle

Iran and Nukes: "A Tougher Nut" Than Korea
In a two-part Q&A, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage discusses the tricky choices the Bush Administration and its allies face as they try to halt the spread of nuclear weapons


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