5 Things About The Big Data Economy that Managers Should Know


At the turn of the 20th century, most people lived as they had in the middle ages.  Almost half of the US population was employed in agriculture.  Life expectancy was less than 50 years....

Chevrolet Silverado Reaper is What You Want


Ford offers the F-150 SVT Raptor for fans of extreme trucks. Now Chevy fans finally got their extreme truck with the Chevrolet Silverado Reaper. Lingenfelter and Southern Comfort Automotive...

Tesla Finishes One West-To-East Route


It may not go down in history like the driving of the “golden spike” that completed the transcontinental railroad in May of 1869. But Tesla nevertheless finished an important cross-country route of...

Sam’s Club layoffs reach 2,300


Around 2,300 workers from Sam's Club will be axed from their jobs, Wal-Mart said. The news is the chain's second largest cut after the 2010 layoffs, where 10,000 workers were involved.Today's layoffs...

Why We Start Up Startups


Thanks to the great Brad Feld for publishing this column in his blog today as well. Pause for a moment.  And ask yourself some simple questions you probably don’t think about every day....

Windows Phone is in Danger


Everyone was expecting Nokia’s smartphones sale in Q4 2013 to go up, with estimates that it would break 10 million units. Instead they sold 8.2 million Lumia handsets, a sequential drop on the...

Display Ads are as Compelling As TV Spots


In the lobby of Google’s Building 900 at its Mountain View headquarters, there’s a display of Google-colored squares and rectangles that looks like a bland abstract-art piece. It turns out these are...

H&M Lets Fans Undress David Beckham In H&M Super Bowl 2014 Ad


This year’s star-powered Super Bowl just got even sexier with the announcement that global soccer icon David Beckham is teaming up again with Swedish clothing manufacture H...