The CEO Question: Where Is My Company Going?


In my last column I stated that every business, including small ones, have assignments that can only be performed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Plus I revealed: CEO strategic...
    






How To Avoid The Fate Of Rap Genius When Doing SEO


SEO, like many things in life, can be really good or really bad, depending on who’s doing it. Unfortunately, there are too many people claiming to be SEO professionals who don’t seem to know much...
    






IntraLinks Steps Up To The Plate – Because The World Needs Another File Sharing Offering, Right?


You’d think that we’d have already had all the possible file sharing use-cases covered – when thinking about the different file sharing, backup and synchronization products I need to juggle a...
    






Save Money By Tripling Your Costs And Other Friday Stories


Right about the same time the new Meryl Streep/Julia Roberts movie, August: Osage County is hitting the theaters, the real Osage County is in the news for another reason. It’s apparently no less...
    






Blackberry Confirms Niche Status With Keyboard Focused Smartphones in 2014


As 2013 opened, BlackBerry was ready to take on the world with a new operating system, a new touch-screen based OS, and a range of smartphones that would appeal to every market segment....
    






BlackBerry sticks to its QWERTY roots


In January last year, then BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins took the wraps off its first touchscreen smartphone - the BlackBerry Z10. But Heins also announced a new QWERTY-touting phone called the Q10....
    






The Future Of Translational Medicine — Lessons Learned In Therapeutics


This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this...
    






Feelings For Hire: Should You Outsource Your Emotional Life To A Website?


Her, Spike Jonze’s acclaimed new picture about a man who falls for an intelligent computer operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson is set in the near future, but the days of outsourcing your...
    






Why Tiffany & Co. Was Ordered to Pay Almost Half A Billion Dollars To The Swatch Group


On December 21st, a Dutch arbitration panel ordered Tiffany & Co. to pay almost $450 million dollars (402 million Swiss Francs) in damages to the Swatch Group. The hefty award is what appears to...