Beauty brands scale back in China
L'Oréal and Revlon have announced changes to their businesses in China. Lex's Robert Armstrong and Oliver Ralph discuss the problems that the country poses...
CES: Tech groups throw a curved TV
FT San Francisco correspondent Tim Bradshaw reports on day two of the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and assesses technology companies' chances...
Maersk: Turning the tanker around
Maersk is selling most of its stake in Denmark's largest retailer for $3bn as the shipping-to-oil conglomerate continues to prune its sprawling portfolio. Lex's...
Sharon: Hardliner who turned to peace
As the Middle East marks the death of Ariel Sharon, John Reed examines how the former prime minister and military leader continues to have...
Virtual reality in the unreal city
From the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Financial Times' San Francisco correspondent Tim Bradshaw reports on the growing sophistication of virtual...
Time Royal Dutch came out of its shell?
Ben van Beurden is ten days into running Royal Dutch Shell. Lex's Oliver Ralph and Vincent Boland discuss the challenges the new chief executive...
Unleash your inner innovator
David Kelley, creator of the Stanford d.school, and Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation, run global design consultancy IDEO. In the final...
Stephen King’s spectre of deflation
The pursuit by central banks of growth rates that are no longer achievable risks stoking an asset price bubble. Yet there is also a...
Smartwatch with your smartphone, sir?
From the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Paul Taylor, FT personal technology columnist, reviews Sony's SmartWatch2, which works with an Android device...
Competition drives US auto industry
Robert Wright, US Industry correspondent at the Financial Times, reports from the Detroit auto show on how intensifying competition is driving car makers to...
