IBM To Spend $1.2B For New Data Centers As Part Of Pre-2015 Spending Spree


A week after announcing it was moving the Watson computer system to New York City as part of a new $1 billion business unit, IBM is squeezing in another major business deal before it reports its...
    






Luxury Car Sales Stronger Than Ever: Rolls-Royce Has Another Record-Breaking Year


Rolls-Royce Phantom Aviator Coupe Today Rolls-Royce announced its highest-ever annual sales, delivering 3,630 cars in 2013 in its fourth consecutive record-breaking year. That makes Rolls-Royce the...
    






NAFTA And The Future Of Canada, Mexico And The United States


By Marc Lanthemann The 20th anniversary of NAFTA’s implementation on Jan. 1 has revived some of the perennial arguments that have surrounded the bloc since its inception. The general consensus has...
    






Former Football Coach’s DataStax Doubles As It Beats Oracle


One of the oldest cliches in the book is that if you can win at team sports, you can win at business too. You don’t have to look much farther than the spectacular failure of former Red Sox pitcher...
    






First Globals Technology Corps: Merging Jobs and Public Diplomacy


In our book, First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing the Potential of Our Millennial Generation, Joan Snyder Kuhl and I present a number of prescriptions for welcoming Millennials into...
    






Syrian Refugee Tech Startup Finds Sanctuary In London


Business was starting to go well for the tech start-up Rootal in 2011, until a car bomb went off just blocks from its Damascus headquarters. Now, more than two years after its founder ended up on the...
    






9 Big Trends For 2014 (You Won’t Believe What’s #9)


It’s 2014! This blog is about analyzing all the big trends that affect the world. So here are, in no particular order, and concerning most subject areas. I think #9 will surprise you. 1. Government...