NewCo Five — Tech giants’ ambitions smash into global regulators.

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1. What happens when the ambitions of America’s tech giants smash into global regulators? (Farhad Manjoo, New York Times)

2. Big Sugar knows consumers pay attention to nutrition studies. That’s why it’s funding them. (Candice Choi, Associated Press)

3. Solar energy in Chile is free, but that’s bad news for the industry. (Vanessa Dezem and Javiera Quiroga, Bloomberg)

4. Work at AOL. They know you don’t really want to work there, so they’ll fund your startup (Oliver Staley, Quartz)

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The NewCo Five — Rapacious Capitalism FTL!

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Each week NewCo Shift selects the top five stories you can’t miss.

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1.Rapacious 20th century capitalism is thriving in the developing world (Michael Hobbes, Foreign Policy)

2. Maybe it’s time for a new map of the United States (Parag Khanna, New York Times)

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The NewCo Five

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Each week NewCo Shift selects the top five stories you can’t miss.

1. Move Along, People. The Singularity Is Not Coming Any Time Soon. (John Markoff, New York Times)

2. Thanks To His Offshore Investments, Might David Cameron Be the New Warren Buffett? (Jason Karaian, Quartz)

3. Hey Zuckulus! What Are You Doing With All That User Data? (Sen. Al Franken)

4. Crowdfunding Gets Companies More Than Money: It Garners Powerful New Feedback Too (Michael A. Stanko and David H. Henard, MIT Sloan Management Review)

5. Top Sharing Economies Are About to Become Profitable. The Taxman Isn’t Ready (David Kocieniewski, Businessweek)