COMPANIES are now tweaking their logistics to give themselves more flexibility should anything go wrong. For instance, instead of relying entirely on manufacturing in low-cost regions, they may put part of their operation—perhaps a rapid-response w… more »

Translation software: The science-fiction dream of a machine that understands any language is getting slowly closer IT IS arguably the most useful gadget in the space-farer's toolkit. In “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, Douglas… more »

As companies send more employees abroad, they are offering fewer perks and finding more recruits in developing countries FEW stereotypes are more enduring than the pampered expatriate, leading a life of luxury to compensate for the hardships of sl… more »

IT BEGAN on a stormy evening in New Mexico in March 2000 when a bolt of lightning hit a power line. The temporary loss of electricity knocked out the cooling fans in a furnace at a Philips semiconductor plant in Albuquerque. A fire started, but was put o… more »

After months of vigorous resistance, Arcelor's board finally succumbed to Mittal Steel's €25.6 billion ($32.2 billion) takeover offer. Mittal's bid for Arcelor, which operates steel plants in several European countries, had inflamed French economic… more »

A change in the tax code for expatriate Americans IN ONE area America's sense of self-defeating imperialism is truly evident: taxation. Unlike most developed countries, America taxes the income of its citizens even when they work abroad. This has… more »