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Well, it looks like the folks in Washington have done it.  The device called "sequestration" to impose mandatory cross-the-board cuts in Federal defense and non-defense spending is actually going into effect.  That...

In case you haven’t gotten the memo, Anna Wintour’s crown as queen bee of fashion is seriously threatened by street style bloggers, i.e. normal, everyday girls who document their outfits and accrue massive ...

By now, most of the debate about why “Lincoln” and its venerated director, Steven Spielberg, didn’t take home Academy Awards for Best Picture and Directing has subsided. Don’t worry. I’m ...

While Samsung's Galaxy S III kept an eye on you to keep its screen from dimming, the company's next smartphone will look at you even more closely.

In a critical moment, Facebook fixed a huge Android flaw. Here's why Google needs the social network to make Android the worldwide dominant platform.

Microsoft's anti-Google TV ads are on their way out. Thank goodness.

IBM just announced that its cloud products and services will be based on open cloud architecture.

The Obama Administration today responded to an online petition by saying that it "agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other pe...

Ask 100 marketers if they use direct mail, email, social media, TV, radio, and/or outdoor in their marketing strategies and campaigns and the majority of them will respond in the affirmative.

Rum has a reputation, let's face it. Mention rum to most people and thoughts turn to colorful frozen drinks festooned with paper umbrellas, or worse: spiked Coke products, usually enjoyed in the stands at a college footb...

Sponsored Post Somehow over the past several years, advertising has turned into a big data business.

Guest Post If you determine that you need an alternative to USPS, is Outbox worth the risk?

Almost 20 years ago close to 4,000 people from 200 companies gathered in San Diego for a conference to discuss the future of health-care information technology. This was before the Web. This was back when computers in ph...

The former palace of Napoleon Bonaparte’s grandnephew, Prince Roland Bonaparte, hugs the Seine in a quiet, tasteful corner of Paris. The property, named Palais Iéna, rests in the Eiffel Tower's elegant shadow, ...

Don’t be surprised if somebody you half know touches your arm at the golf club this year or rings you up out of the blue and starts asking if you’d ever consider relocating a few jobs to Ireland, land of ta...

Guest Post I know many women who are irked by Sheryl Sandberg’s dictum to “lean in,” the subject of her new book. Sheryl’s basic premise is that women don’t reach the top of corporate ...

“Everyone knows that if you make HTML5 performant, you change the game,” said Steve Newcomb, founder of semi-stealth startup Famo.us, in his company’s SoMa loft last week. His statement is a fact so we...

No one has made a greater fortune from the North American Oil and Gas Boom than Harold Hamm. The founder and CEO of Continental Resources is responsible for cracking the code of the Bakken -- the vast formation of oil-be...

Women, despite working more than two thirds of the world’s working hours, earn less than 10% of the world’s wages. As I type, one woman will die every two minutes of pregnancy-related causes. During the sam...

We take a short break from market validation to reflect for a moment on the past week’s news.  In particular, we’re thinking about the latest new about Groupon and all that.  With the sacrifice of And...

If you were following Google last week you can be forgiven for thinking the leopard had changed its spots. Three times senior executives were quoted in public after uttering strangely open pronouncements about the compan...

Social media is playing a larger and larger role in business marketing and small-business owners should know a few of the tricks that will make their customers click more when visiting their social media Web pages. â€...