The Plot to Steal the Color White From DuPont

SIGN UP     White Has Been Forever Tainted The Plot to Steal the Color White From DuPont There's white and then there's luminous, oh-my-god-how-is-that-so-white. All whiteness is the product of a compound known as titanium dioxide. A handful of companies around the globe produce it, but none as well as DuPont. It's the only company that makes a white so brilliant it astounds. Or at least it was until, according to U.S. law enforcement officials, China stole DuPont's methods.   Today's Top Stories These Are the World's Most Miserable Economies Thanks to off-the charts inflation—an annual average of 98.3 percent last year—Venezuela will probably retain the dubious honor of being the most miserable economy for a second year in a row. Our condolences to the winner. A Renewables Revolution Is Toppling the Dominance of Fossil Fuels in U.S. Power Renewable energy was the biggest source of new power added to U.S. electrical grids last year. New wind and solar made up 68 percent of all new capacity, with most of that coming from wind farms. Meanwhile, a record number of coal plants were shuttered in 2015. Good thing some of those workers are learning to code. Zika Is the Next Front in the Mosquito Wars The Aedes aegypti mosquito weighs less than a grain of rice, lives only a few weeks, and doesn't stray more than 100 yards from where it hatches. For a creature of such limited scope, it has an outsize influence on human health and global commerce. In 1793 a mosquito-carried epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia shut down trade and killed a 10th of the city's residents. A century later, the same disease foiled France's effort to build a canal across Panama. Now, it's spreading the Zika virus through Latin America. Why Bombardier Is Struggling to Build Bigger Planes Nearly a decade after committing to competing with the Airbus and Boeing by producing the company's first family of transcontinental jets, Bombardier is in tatters. It's burning through cash and has gone cap in hand to the Canadian government for as much as $1 billion in aid. At stake is the survival of a 73-year-old heavy manufacturer that employs 24,000 people in the country. Here's how it all went wrong. Martin Shkreli Calls Congress 'Imbeciles' Appearing with a group of other pharmaceutical executives, the controversial Shkreli smirked his way through a Congressional hearing on Thursday. Members of Congress strongly criticized Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Turing Pharmaceuticals during the often heated proceeding, accusing the companies of dramatically increasing the price of drugs. Shkreli invoked his Fifth Amendment right and refused to testify. Later, he took to Twitter and called the elected legislative branch "imbeciles."   If It Ain't Broke ... Startups Haven't Replaced India's 19th Century Food Delivery Service More than 400 food delivery apps launched in India in the past three years, raising $120 million from VC firms and other investors. None of them have managed to disrupt the famously low-tech system of dabbawalas who have been ferrying 175,000 meals—some from cooks' homes, others from central kitchens—to office workers and students daily. The time-tested deliverymen carry boxes via trains, bicycles, and pushcarts to their hungry clients, using alphanumeric codes printed on reusable containers. Why disrupt an industry that's been working just fine since the 1890s?         You received this message because you are subscribed to the Bloomberg Business Daily newsletter.       Unsubscribe | BloombergBusiness.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022

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