Buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffet held a big Q&A event at the University of Nebraska in late September. They did a similar thing in 1997 at University of Washington. Fortune was there with them and interviewed the two afterwards. The first question was “[What is the] best book you’ve read lately?” And their answers were…

…the board of Hewlett-Packard. That’s not a sentence I would have forseen myself writing, given some of the nonsense that’s gone on in Palo Alto in recent years. But yesterday, HP announced that board members from now on would need…

Southwest Airlines has unveiled Slam Dunk One: A Boeing 737 adorned with graphics promoting the National Basketball Association. Business of Sports Analyst Diana Nyad reports on what both parties gain from these deals

As it becomes increasingly difficult to separate real news from The Onion, the US Patent Office will today publish the first application for a patent for a story line.

As National Novel Writing Month enters its sixth year, an estimated 60,000 aspiring authors will try to bang out entire novels in less than 30 days. It’s fun, it’s online and it’s launched several careers. By Kathleen Craig.

Thomas Fuller of the International Herald Tribune recently reported on the success of immigrants from the former East Bloc in the three EU countries that admit them without limits: the U.K., Ireland, and Sweden. All three economies are healthy, but…

“What matters most is being right. And what’s ‘right’ is determined by outcomes.”

-Eric Schmidt , CEO, Novell