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The world's largest car show is underway in Frankfurt, and automakers from around the world are taking the stage to reveal what they've been working on. Lamborghini has come up with something special: The fastest Gallard...

I'm behind in my reading. More than 30 unread books are sitting on my office shelves and another one joins their ranks almost every week. In an attempt to break the logjam, I opened one somewhat randomly and read this�...

The Donald and his children were in the nation's capital on Tuesday presenting plans for The Old Post Office, an historic building on Pennsylvania Avenue that will be turned into a $200 million luxury hotel. The hotel wi...

I was asked a couple of weeks ago to present to a group on Big Data. The target audience was C-level executives in the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) arena. Now in Ireland, this is a very different scale than th...

Sergei Fedorov is generally regarded as the greatest defensive forward in the history of the National Hockey League.  He led the Detroit Red Wings to Stanley Cup championships in 1997, 1998, and 2002, and won a Hart Tro...

It turns out the British National Health Service (NHS) — a system free at the point of service and funded by tax money — is pretty popular, despite the frequent controversy in the tabloids (one recent Daily Mail he...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Like ugly ducklings, will unpaid interns emerge as (Black) Swans? A series of lawsuits--including one by interns who worked on the Black Swan movie--is set to answer the question whether unpa...

CNN's reboot of "Crossfire," the long-running political debate program that first aired from 1982-2005, posted modestly disappointing ratings in its debut on Monday.  Hosted by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and for...

Talk about a gamble. A controversial commercial for a French betting site reimagines the assassination of John F. Kennedy as the fault of a bumbling cop -- and plays it for laughs. The ad for horse racing bookmaker PMU, ...

ACCELERATED APPROVAL: Government scientists on Tuesday recommended speedy approval for a Roche breast cancer drug that could become the first pharmaceutical product approved for use before surgery.

Looks like Apple isn't all that eager to attack the Chinese market after all. Its new iPhone 5C will cost $549 off-contract in the U.S. In China, after taxes, the final bill will be $735, according to Tech In Asia.  Tha...

When it comes to innovation, smaller organizations often gain an entrepreneurial edge. Among my various sideline endeavors I serve on the Advisory Board of Wendia North America, a provider of ITIL-compatible service man...

This past week I had the pleasure of being a guest at the 13th Annual Forbes Global CEO Conference in Bali, where I was surrounded by some of the most powerful business leaders in the world. Of course, the content was fa...

Make no mistake. Payroll Fraud is real.  According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, it's the number one source of accounting fraud and employee theft.  Check out these statistics:

China's economy is likely to become the largest in the world within a matter of months, if not years. This will happen as a matter of course. What remains to be seen is whether or not the majority of China's citizens wil...

Chicago-area siblings already sold a scrapbooking site to MichaelsAs 30-something professionals, the Petersen siblings should have left their days of dried macaroni, glitter and glue guns far behind. Instead, they're bui...

Jena Gardner, founder of a small travel marketing firm, shares her strategy for building a strong team.

You will often see me writing that winning a state domicile change requires a lot more than just getting a new drivers license and registering to vote.  So now comes the case of Michael Duley before the Wisconsin Tax Ap...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a study the Cleveland Federal Reserve published suggesting that the small businesses that are the real job creators in our country will likely continue to struggle to find the financin...

Apple delivers new products that will excite customers at the mid-range an high end.

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO - Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low...

Young entrepreneurs devise an innovative business model that provides free bike rentals to USC students, and underprivileged children overseas.