You'd have to be incredibly preoccupied (perhaps with a flood in the office or a shareholder uprising) not to know that Facebook may file for its initial public offering this week.
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By now you've probably heard about Apple's monster earnings report. Suffice to say, the company grew at unsurpassed levels, sold millions of nifty devices, and recorded record profits.
One day after the extensive Internet blackout protest of SOPA and PIPA, the Department of Justice announced that it had charged the owner of the file-sharing site Megaupload with online copyright infringement.
Picture this: a leading presidential candidate in the United States erects a Website and -- perhaps because it is the norm, perhaps because he expected adoration -- he builds in a comments feature, which is immediately overrun with nasty remarks urging him to quit the race, maybe even commit suicide.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to release a set of proposed rules that would require facilities that make or handle food for humans and animals to put measures in place to help prevent food-borne illness. Manufacturers will be required to adopt standards for monitoring their preventive measures to ensure they are working, and they will be have to keep records of that monitoring.
What if you could help conquer cancer or AIDS and find cleaner energy solutions with the click of a mouse? Or help clean up your local waterway with the snap of a picture on your smartphone?
When nearly 1.5 million user login credentials were stolen from Gawker Media group and published online, the breach harmed security not only for Gawker but also for a number of other, unrelated websites. Knowing that most people use the same...
More websites and online businesses today are beginning to rely on smartphones as a second factor of authentication. Some online banks have been using SMS-based authentication for transaction verification but recently, major websites and businesses...
Guys, This is a fascinating article about how a one-time Silicon Valley exec. Left America to first work in China and then start his own VC/incubation firm there. We are now very much in the second phase of Innovation where Localized solutions/apps...
A CEO’S Nightmare. Whatever happened to smart, comprehensive leadership?In today’s very unstable global economy, it is difficult to keep company growth and market penetration topmost while keeping cost in proper alignment with disappearing...
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Jim Comfort, vice president of global technology services, IBM, discusses the intersection of cloud computing and commerce applications and how this paves the way for better analytics.
Steve and Nicole are at HCL's Unstructure conference at Disneyworld where Malcolm Gladwell and his hair gave a fascinating keynote on the advantages of being an "outsider."
Executives always want to be in touch with the office. In response, airlines have been offering individuals broadband links. In fact, market research firm In-Stat expects revenue from such services to reach $1.5 billion in 2015. So, broadband has taken wings.
Carol Bartz was the CEO of an international public company. But that didn't stop her from cursing a blue streak when she was fired last week. Here's why she should have kept her mouth shut.
Skype recently acquired GroupMe, a startup developing tools to make mobile communications simpler. The move underscores dramatic changes in that market, ones that will change how executives communicate.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been removed, and the question is whether the company can succeed under ANY leadership. It has two problems: its Internet startup culture and its unwillingness to take advantage of potential partnerships with telcos and cable companies.
The board of ICANN, the international non-profit that administers the domain name system, announced CEO Rod Beckstrom would be leaving at the end of his term next summer. It's time for consumers and business to tell the organization what kind of person they want to lead it – and what priorities to set.
Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora, talks about his company’s push into automotives and the way his Internet music service is enhancing, not destroying, the future of radio.
As the social Web reinvents the way businesses operate and manage customer relations, the role of the chief marketing officer is rapidly evolving as well. Richard Brandon, CMO of MLL Telecom, discusses the ways social media have and have not factored into his role, as well as the challenge of leveraging the Web to serve a targeted audience.
