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I like festivals. I got my feet dirty during NYC's Governor's Ball, listened to lots of music at Coachella, checked out the parties, and even embraced the outrageous outfits. But Burning Man made these festivals look wi...

Thousands of Tokyo residents cheered in triumph early Sunday after winning the race to host the 2020 Olympics, beating out rivals Istanbul and Madrid despite concerns about a nuclear plant leaking radioactive water.

An insurance executive has traveled the world -- from Switzerland to Australia to New York -- in her career, but will always remember how her application was noticed by an early employer.     

Coal accounts for more than one-third of national electricity generation, more than any other energy source. It also is a polarizing subject, staunchly defended on one side, condemned on the other.

The credit rating firm being sued for its role in the financial crisis essentially argues that no one should have taken its ratings seriously in the first place.Everybody wants to see the perpetrators of the financial cr...

Part of the Burning Man experience is roughing it. The 61,000 people who attended this year's Burning Man Festival all stayed in tents, yurts, RVs — or didn't sleep at all. But some "camps" — as the clusters of te...

A group of Penn State student-entrepreneurs see a business opportunity in the university's new ban on bags at home athletic events.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 0.3% and Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures slipped 0.2%

A homeowners association board considers terminating a law firm and management company over excessive billings but fears being sued for breach of contract.Question: The new board is trying to cut down unnecessary expendi...

Ohio ranks high in the increasing number of farms run by women.

Ohio ranks high in the increasing number of farms run by women.

XO Communications is breaking every crisis management rule in the book. Compare XO to GoDaddy. GoDaddy crashed yesterday as well, possibly taking XO with it, in a cascading failure. But where XO went Missing in Action, G...

Lessons on pitching from one CEO who attended Techstars? Demo Day.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is on a roll.  While its case against the parsonage exclusion is ongoing, it has won standing in two other cases.  One case concerns political activity by churches and the other con...

A year ago my friend Russ Warner, CEO of ContentWatch, collaborated with me on the article Employees Really Do Waste Time At Work. The interest in that article continues to grow to this day. Today he shared his updated p...

From just the one report about Amazon, maybe and maybe not, intending to release a branded smartphone for free we've had a flowering of speculation about what it is that they might be able to do to make such a plan work....

A lawsuit is filed three days after the Verizon merger announcement, as if no deal that large could proceed without one.

Real Madrid is now worth $3.4 billion, maintaining its place as the world's most valuable sports team and $100 million more than we valued  the Spanish soccer team in April.

Are your employees holding you back and keeping you from being as successful as you could be?

Clearly, the title is a bit over-dramatic and overstated, but the question of whether hiring interns makes sense anymore needs to addressed.  Fall seems to have arrived early this year and so have the intern lawsuits. ...

You know what's dumb? Here's what's dumb: trying to save a $50 travel agency fee by paddling around in Kayak, instead of engaging a professional.  I'm only sorry it took me so long to figure this out.

One of the highlights of Monterey Car Week every year is The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering.