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Amazon.com supports online sales tax these days. How's that for an about-face? For years, Amazon avoiding sales tax was a prime--perhaps the prime--company strategy. Price was even more important than convenience, and th...

Meet the incubators, accelerators and investors supporting the Middle East's burgeoning startup habitat.

That's it? This is what all the suspense was about? That we're going to rank colleges by value, using some newly made up scale? This isn't a serious effort -- or even an effort -- to actually solve the college expense pr...

Time is funny. It seems to speed up with each passing year. You're 40 and, in a blink, nearly 50. Then 50 zooms past and people start to ask when you might retire.

Wine is a terrible investment. If you want to start a small, smart collection, here are ten types of wine to keep in a fridge or in the basement, awaiting the perfect time for uncorking. While some of these wines will in...

Kudos to Rowland Davis and David Madland at the Center for American Progress for rethinking retirement savings. In a paper with the rather understated title "American Retirement Savings Could Be Much Better," the authors...

Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of Huffington Post, calls for the need to redefine success to not only include money and power, but also the "third metric," which includes well-being, wisdom, and our ab...

Think in smaller multiples for a stylish and functional alternative to that monster table in the middle of the room.

Those who know me well know that in addition to being severely over-caffeinated, I also possess one of the world's best sweet tooths. So when I heard of the return of the Twinkie, well let me just say a certain Forbes co...

Even though I own an iPad and several other tablets, I'm much more likely to use my desktop Windows PC or my MacBook Air because I prefer using a keyboard to a touchscreen. But, after seeing Curious' new iPad app for its...

Ten iconic creations that changed the world.

A great deal has been written about the co-founder of Apple Computer in the aftermath of his passing. Colorful stories abound about his brilliance at developing products that millions of people have fallen in love with. ...

Lewis Mumford was born October 19, 1895, the illegitimate son of Louis Mack, the son of Adolph Mack, husband of Theresa Einstein, and Secretary of the Raritan Woolen Mill, the largest producer of woolen goods in New Jers...

One of the most basic skills in effective negotiation is learning how to control your emotions. The emotion of neediness is the number-one deal killer, and it wears many faces. If one wants badly to win the negotiation a...

Every manager wants to have a great team. And most managers are reasonably bright and likable people. So why do most managers fail to build even a decent team?

Tournament will be held March 21-22, 2014, at the prestigious Pinehurst Golf Resort in concert with the iGATE CEO Cup Golf Tournament Fremont, Calif. - August 22, 2013: iGATE, the NASDAQ listed leading outsourcing servic...

Inertia. We all face it. Just look at the last article I wrote. It was months ago. Writing a new Forbes piece has been on my list of things to do for a long time, but why wasn't I getting to it? I started to reflect more...

Watching Edgar Wright's The World's End shows how far its director and star have come, and how far effects technology has progressed at the mid-end of the production market.

This article is by Ty Montague, CEO and co-founder of co: and author of "True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business."

By Dr. Cindy Wahler How many times have we heard that women talk more than men? Let's dispel this myth. Teams at all levels of management have been analyzed along gender lines for both frequency and type of conversation....

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indi...

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