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Gadget Watch: Car game leaves Hot Wheels in dust

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Gadget Watch: iPhone-controlled toy car game leaves Hot Wheels and tracks with rails in dust LAS VEGAS (AP) — So long, Hot Wheels. You just got lapped by toy race-car...
    






The 5 Reasons Big Companies Struggle With Innovation

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As I have been doing startup consulting at Red Rocket, I have also had many executive conversations with several big companies.  These companies were anywhere from $150MM to $25BN in revenues in size...
    






VC Tim Draper On Bitcoin, Going Public And Hong Kong’s Startup Community

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If you have even the most minimal exposure to the venture capital industry then Tim Draper is a man who needs no introduction. He’s the “Draper” in the storied VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He’s...
    






Toyota Shows New Hydrogen Car In Vegas; Probably Uses Less Energy Than A Slot Machine

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We’ve long scratched our heads over why the auto business finds itself necessary to encroach ever deeper into the purple haze of high-tech product unveilings held every January at the Consumer...
    






Is Veeam The Next $Billion Virtualization and Cloud Software Company?

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A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape:  Ratmir Timashev, Founder and CEO, Veeam… You don’t often hear “Russia” and “successful entrepreneur” in the...
    






Forsake Start-Up Envy: Three Reasons Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Start-Ups

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This is the first of a two-part series on how large companies can out-innovate start-ups. Part Two is available here.  An accompanying infographic is also available. An executive recently left his...
    






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

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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...
    






China Bites Into Bitcoin

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Bitcoins were worth nothing in 2009, when the digital cryptocurrency was first minted on the computer of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed to live in Japan. Four years later the...
    






The Weekly Oil & Gas Follies

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The Weekly Oil and Gas Follies – Volume 27, January 6, 2014   In which we drill down into the @GDBlackmon Twitter feed to briefly chronicle the week’s silliness, foibles, fake news and real news...
    






7 Reasons That Russia Is Not The Soviet Union

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National Review published a rather overheated piece the other day that contained an entertaining line: “Russia has become the Soviet Union with a better suit”. The idea that Russia is fundamentally...