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Many great ideas never go anywhere; many high-potential startups fail because their solution, while elegant, can't be matched to a problem somebody wants to solve.

Super Bowl parties are the worst, and that's largely because people are the worst. I'm no literary buff, but I'm pretty sure that cramming a couple dozen yahoos into a living room for three hours so they can scream in...

Watch out: Wayne's World Syndrome can attack your customer experience initiative (customer-centricity consultant guided or otherwise)

If you watched the last three Super Bowls, you know that each came down to the wire and that many of the critical game-saving moves were made after the two-minute warning.

NFL sponsor SAP has been a fixture on Super Bowl Boulevard in Times Square this week, just as it’s a fixture at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, as one of four anchor tenants. The software and analytics company ...

Senators Angus King, and Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican are cosponsoring a bill that would strip the National Football League of its tax exempt status.  I suppose my delight that a Republican and an Independent would ...

Although I live in Shanghai, I'm in Bangkok this week visiting old friends from when I once lived in this Southeast Asian capital, and coincidentally witnessing a struggle among political factions on the eve of the count...

Great athletes play to their strengths. You should too.

Leaked screenshots from @evleaks about Samsung's next Galaxy device, the S5, suggest Samsung is jumping head first into the biometricification of mobile.

What’s the greatest Super Bowl ad of all time? There’s not much debate about that question. By overwhelming consensus, it’s 1984, the Apple Macintosh ad that stunned viewers, went viral when it was re-broadcast on ...

We already knew that viral video ads are not automatic moneymakers for the brand in question. We just didn?t know how many failed to generate significant sales, even when launched from a platform like the Super Bowl.

When it?s time for star athletes to retire they struggle through some of the same emotional and financial challenges that the average Joe goes through. A major difference, however, is that pro athletes are forced to deal...

With the Super Bowl right around the corner, it is interesting to note that many great athletes endured tremendous failure in their early years. What they learned from those failures actually helped them to become champi...

Svetha Janumpalli thinks you can save a child for the cost of a pair of shoes. The 26-year-old, who was named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list this year, is moving to Nigeria from San Francisco in two weeks time to prove he...

We've all seen how fast TV awards shows, series and scandals can ignite millions of Tweets--but sports programs continue to pull in the highest levels of social engagement. So it's no surprise everyone from Met Life Stad...

As the tax filing season gets under way, the tax agency is living through another year of budget cuts and offering little hope for improved taxpayer service.

There's no reason to pay more tax than is legally required, but there?s also no reason to make yourself a target for an Internal Revenue Service audit or to get your return flagged by the IRS? computers, which match bill...