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Ten years ago, I met a woman working in the kitchens of my son’s school. Prior to having children, she had been a high flying professional. This, she told me, was the only job she could find with the flexibility she ne...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Sprint, CVS Caremark, and TripAdvisor.

Here’s something you can’t buy at the Apple Store: the pricey Silicon Valley condo right next door to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

We need hierarchy to manage complexity - but we don't have to succumb to bureaucracy.

Give Directly has an extremely simple model – find poor people and give them money. That’s it. It’s a radical idea which sometimes rubs people up the wrong way - a popular refrain is, won’t people just drink the ...

It's an alluring vision for travel-weary consultants, bloggers, and corporate visionaries: why not create and sell information products that can earn you money while you sleep?

Los Angeles-based startup Quarterly is a subscription service that enables people to receive physical items in the mail from influential curators of their choice. Kind of like the wine club, but instead of wine it's a th...

You could blame it on the telegraph.

What you look for on the Internet reveals a lot about you, which is why a growing number of people are turning to services that do not track their searches and offer greater privacy protections than Google. "The consciou...

If most digital marketing programs or campaigns have a weak area, it’s analytics. One recent study identified that the biggest talent and hiring gap in online marketing is in the analytics space. 37% of companies surve...

Europe's tech scene is growing, and these 42 investors are leading the charge.

Innovation is a buzzword. I hear it just as often at startup events as I do from big companies, but usually it is just lip service because it is incredibly hard to implement.  When we were founding Thinknear I was adama...

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been around for decades. As a sign of maturation, mega companies like IBM, Oracle and SAP have pulled off mega acquisitions in the sector.

The other day I read about an interesting company doing cloud-based software for SMBs. LivePlan (a division of Palo Alto Software) allows SMBs to create business plans and report upon their financial performance. It is ...

Paul Walker's will and trust reveal he left his $25 million in assets to his daughter. What lessons can you learn from his estate planning? Forbes explores the legal ins and outs of the Paul Walker Estate.

We learned that institutional VC did not work outside Silicon Valley. And we did not know how to change the earth's axis of rotation -- and were not foolish (or brave) enough to try

Four months into her tenure, Carroll learned of a fatality that occurred during her first visit to Rustenburg. "This organization is out of control," she told the head of Anglo American Platinum. "I will not support oper...

On January 28, 2014, New York City-based BrightFarms, Inc., which builds and operates hydroponic greenhouses farms in urban areas, announced it raised $4.9 million in Series B financing. The round was led by NGEN Partner...

We live in an amazing digital age. Almost anything you can dream of is nearly a click away. Even Enterprise-level sales have been transformed.

Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the flipped classroom. I’ve been experimenting with both of them.

Paddy Cosgrave insisted on being "politely persistent," and put Dublin's tech scene on the map.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), about to become the new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Friday that he aims to eventually rewrite what he described as a “dysfunctional, rotting mess of a carcass that we call t...