Entreprenuer Just Made A $1.9 Million Bet On Super Bowl Suites


Part of being a sports fan is the risk you sign on for every year and every game, putting your emotion on the line for a bunch of grown men who generally make more money than you.  John Chen, however...

Toyota Prius Offers Best Value


Toyota beats its rivals General Motors and Volkswagen again to maintain its title of world's biggest automaker. Toyota today reports highest-ever annual sales volume. The Japanese auto giant sold 9....

Are you Buying Fitness Wearables From Electronics Companies?


Having spent the week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it would appear that fitness & sport tech has started to reach mainstream prominence.  In a way it has, in others...

AARP Chooses Jack Ryan for Grownups


We have all read the label of PG on several movies. It stands for parental guidance. Of course, in an increasing violent and chaotic world, children must be guided by their guardians as to what lies...

Google Ad Chief Susan Wojcicki Talks about Next Big Battle


Straightforward and unflashy, Susan Wojcicki doesn’t come off like the most powerful woman in advertising that Forbes and others have labeled her. When we meet outside her office at the Googleplex in...

Is the BMW i3 In Trouble In California Already?


An article from TheStreet.com has declared that just as the i3 is launching, a “critical BMW selling point has been removed, resulting in a huge victory for Tesla as well as BMW’s other...

Endpoints Versus The Internet Of Things


Last week on Twitter, a few friends of mine, IT industry analysts and journalists, were tossing around the conversational ball.  We were debating terminology — The Internet of Things — that has...

Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo for $53 Billion?


The last time Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo — valuing it at $45 billion, Steve Ballmer hoped that some value could be created by combining their media assets. As he said back then, “We have great...

Giuliani Rancic Receives Inappropriate Reply


Jennifer Lawrence made a dazzling appearance at the show wearing a Christian Dior dress that did full justice to her fine figure. And though her ornamental apparel was beyond beautiful, it was the...

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk


By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...