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Although it has yet to make a dime, share buyers valued Twitter's IPO at $25 billion. Harvard Business School senior lecturer Chet Huber discusses why.

"Gambling is the finest thing a person can do; IF he is good at it."

With key players in the industry talking about the death of "social business," due to a lack of buy-in from the C-Suite, I keep thinking, what? We are still at the very tip of the iceberg. And while Chris Heuer makes ver...

Nigerian banker Tony O. Elumelu has become at least $123 million richer since November 1 as shares of Transcorp PLC, a Nigerian-Stock Exchange-listed conglomerate, tripled in value in the last three weeks.

Dell Inc. has appointed Ugandan businessman and Mara Group founder Ashish J. Thakkar to its Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence Advisory Board.

If Congress and the White House take the opportunity to drag out the next fiscal crisis through spring, it will make it impossible to accomplish anything of consequence between now and next November?s elections.

Bitcoin got a double endorsement overnight form the University of Nicosia. According to an announcement posted on its site .unic.ac.cy/digitalcurrency, the largest private university in Cyprus is now accepting Bitcoin f...

Michael Murphy, SVP of Cambria Suites and Ascend Collection for Choices Hotels International, discusses growth strategy with Kirk Reynolds, founder of travel startup Discover Outdoors.

The  Pristine Solutions desk at Skydeck, UC Berkeley?s incubator, is unlike that of other startups. In addition to the team?s laptops, the Pristine Solutions desk has a rack that contains five bottles of wine. For most ...

In 2007, when my husband and I were married, the universe of green weddings was pretty small. Since then, thousands of companies have sprung

When the first Impact Hub co-working space opened up in London in 2005, could they have guessed what it would become just eight years later? Today, Impact Hub reports 40 operating locations around the world with another ...

Looking for a painless way to boost weight loss? New research suggests changing your sleep schedule can decrease body fat.

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." ~Scottish author Samuel Smiles...

In October FORBES led a delegation of a dozen top philanthropists and private sector altruists to Liberia on a three-day mission to see their how their ideas worked in action.

Ma Ellen. The Iron Lady. African Queen. People across the world regularly use these names to describe Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female President of Liberia and the continent?s first female head of state. They hint...

Since 1960, E. Jerome McCarthy's 4Ps -- Product, Place, Price, Promotion -- have been the mantra for success in Marketing. Despite that ready formula, how many marketing campaigns can claim to be truly successful? As the...

When creating a business, team building can sometimes be the last thing on your mind. Gay Gaddis and several fellow Committee of 200 women remind us that building the right team with the right motives can often lead you ...

By creating personalized images for the right audience with a bent toward either real-time fun or extended sharing, brands are building a more visual experience for their customers.

Black Friday-proof your business with practical tips on customer support, mobile marketing and ecommerce.

It's easy to feel lost in the palooza of Black Friday, especially if you're a small business. But by taking a few simple steps you needn't lose sales to the retail and online giants.

Participating in Black Friday on just that one day is easy enough ? but how do you go about extending the event for your small business throughout the whole week? We have some tips.

Originally posted on November 14, 2013 by Wendy Boswell on Intel's software blog.