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The Brooklyn Salsa Company was born in classic enterprise fashion. An MBA and an artisan, while relaxing over a few beverages at a party, hatched a plan to combine their skills and take a product to market.

Sometimes a trend is even bigger than a $153 billion business. Such is the case with cloud computing and Oracle. As a matter of fact, cloud computing is transforming the entire information technology industry from hardwa...

Artsy, a startup attempting to catalogue all the world?s art in an online depository where works can be discovered and purchased, today announced the launch of an app for iPhone and iPod touch.

Alabama and Texas A&M just played in the most expensive regular season college football since we started tracking the market.  The day of the game, it cost an average of $794 to get in. The outcome this year favored Ala...

What do good marketers and good entrepreneurs have in common? An ability to identify and leverage opportunities to stand out from the crowd. But recently, Starbucks ? often and rightly cited as a case study in marketing ...

A series of  Forbes Insights profiles of Thought Leaders changing the business landscape: Rob Hale Jr., Founder and CEO, granite Telecommunications...

After a recent factory collapse killed over 1,000 people in Bangladesh, an outcry has led to new reforms that could begin to change the logistics of the international clothing trade.

Worry is keeping women from business success, report says; 7 ways worry sabotages workplace success.

(Kitco News) - The gold market rallied sharply in the immediate aftermath of a surprising "no-tapering" announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee Wednesday afternoon. The key "outside markets" a...

The decision to continue buying bonds at a pace of $85 billion a month surprised financial markets - traders were braced for a cut in the stimulus program.

The problem in many companies today is that too many of us focus on that struggling 80 percent and not on the 20 percent that actually yields results. Focusing your initial efforts on what works in your business will lea...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices rallied immediately after the Federal Open Market Committee announced Wednesday that it would leave its monthly bond purchases unchanged at $85 billion a month, in a decision that surprised th...

The New Markets Tax Credit Coalition is calling on Congress to make the neighborhood renewal tax break permanent as part of tax reform.

The number of U.S.-based online retailers generating at least $12,000 a year in sales is on the rise.

As we await Oracle earnings at market close on Wed. Salesforce.com and its vocal chief executive Marc Benioff don't want to share the spotlight. Salesforce and Workday have announced a new partnership that will include ...

Making deals is a powerful way for executives to create value, and an important skill in any executive's arsenal. To explore what goes on behind the scenes, I sat down with legendary deal maker Irv Rothman, who has made ...

For a while, it was very in vogue to think that a mobile web experience was secondary to having an app. As Apple's App Store (and later the Android Market) flourished, many rushed to make apps for smartphone users everyw...

One of the central tenets of anti-shale gas activists--claims that carbon pollution from methane leaked during the hydraulic fracturing extraction process makes natural gas more polluting than coal--took another, likely ...

Aging is a huge economic problem and it is hitting the bottom line in every country. The older the population, the more healthcare it consumes. This puts a big burden on society and on the global economy. What is the med...

By J.P. Gownder

By Hakan Ener, entrepreneurship professor at IESE Business School

Twilio, which recently raised $70 million as it moves towards a potential IPO, is growing quickly as more companies move their telephony infrastructure to cloud services. Twilio, which is taking on larger players such as...