Panda dung, robot undergrads, and the world's wackiest tech awards

By Michael Fitzpatrick, contributor FORTUNE -- If you ever wondered if artificial breasts can survive scalding hot springs, whether panda dung will dissolve garbage, and if a robot could enter university, then Japan would be the to satisfy your curiosity....

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The 50 Most Powerful Women

President and CEOIBM2011 rank: 7Age: 55 A 31-year IBM veteran, Rometty has been a key supporting player in some of Big Blue's biggest transformations: She managed the $3.5 billion PwC Consulting acquisition that launched IBM in the services business,...

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Pre-Marketing: QE Global

Dan Primack joined Fortune.com in September 2010 to cover deals and dealmakers, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road. Previously, Dan was an editor-at-large with Thomson Reuters, where he launched both peHUB.com and the peHUB Wire email service. In a past...

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Occupy Wall Street activists join the Apple iPhone 5 queue

Peaceful protest? Photo: Jessica Mellow FORTUNE -- Looks like the launch of the iPhone 5 is about to get political. Veteran line-sitter Jessica Mellow, who's been camping out in front of the big glass cube of Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue store...

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Occupy activists join iPhone 5 queue

Peaceful protest? Photo: Jessica Mellow FORTUNE -- Looks like the launch of the iPhone 5 is about to get political. Veteran line-sitter Jessica Mellow, who's been camping out in front of the big glass cube of Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue store...

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Inside Romney's fuzzy energy jobs math

FORTUNE -- With this election's sharp focus on jobs and the economy, both candidates are trying to show they can marry the goals of energy independence with employment and national economic growth. Governor Mitt Romney says he will create more than...

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Ford unveils its (unlikely) masterpiece

By Doron Levin, contributor FORTUNE -- Ford Motor Co.'s restyled Fusion midsize family sedan clearly departs from the model it replaces in the looks department. The old one was utilitarian and sensible; the new one borders on racy, like a chorus line...

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IBM's Ginni Rometty looks ahead

By Jessi Hempel, senior writer FORTUNE -- Ginni Rometty's first customer conference as CEO of IBM (IBM) was an unusual affair, especially by Big Blue's buttoned-up standards. The June confab took place in an airy loft in Manhattan's hip Chelsea neighborhood....

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What does power really mean to women?

FORTUNE -- Here is what I learned from being present at the creation of Fortune Most Powerful Women in 1998 and helping to produce the annual MPW list 15 times. Power is what you make it. And Power, in the minds of the Fortune MPW, has changed greatly....

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Inside Salesforce's major transformation

FORTUNE -- Salesforce has long been known for its cloud-based customer relationship management software for salespeople. That's why, after all, its ticker symbol is CRM.  But during a lengthy keynote speech at the company's annual Dreamforce conference...

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HP and IBM: Two paths, one future

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor FORTUNE -- On the face of it, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have a lot in common. Both are storied brands with rich legacies that shaped high-tech. Both are working with companies large and small to help manage their technology....

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The 50 Most Powerful Women

CEOIBM2011 rank: 7Age: 55 A 31-year IBM veteran, Rometty has been a key supporting player in some of Big Blue's biggest transformations: She managed the $3.5 billion PwC Consulting acquisition that launched IBM in the services business, and with chairman...

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Sheila Bair and the bailout bank titans

By Sheila Bair, contributor From left: Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, J.P. Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, and Merrill Lynch's John Thain leaving the Treasury in October 2008 after being offered a $125 billion bailout package...

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New Internet lobbying group takes on Big Media

FORTUNE -- The media industry has been lobbying Washington since before the Silent Film Era. The tech and Internet industries, which are increasingly pitted against Hollywood and the music business (mainly over piracy) have been slower to establish themselves...

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Peer39 founder joins Sequoia Capital

FORTUNE -- Peer39 founder Amiad Solomon has joined Sequoia Capital as an Israel-based venture partner, Fortune has learned. In an email to friends and colleagues, Solomon wrote: It's been 7 years now since we started Peer39, created a new category...

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Why Intel's Sean Maloney is retiring

Intel's Maloney and his family in Beijing Sean Maloney, the Intel (INTC) executive who came back from a massive stroke to head the company's China operation, plans to retire in January. Maloney, whom I profiled last year in "The Man Who Couldn't...

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How good is Amazon's new Kindle Fire really?

FORTUNE -- When the first Kindle Fire arrived last year, some critics and users were quick to judge. The hardware could have been faster and better designed, the software less spastic. And where were the volume buttons? Fast-forward a year or so and...

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David Boies on how to get a headstrong CEO to listen

By Roger Parloff, senior editor David Boies FORTUNE -- David Boies is the most celebrated litigator in America. In the 1980s he defended CBS's 60 Minutes in an era-defining defamation suit by General William Westmoreland. In the...

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