11 Reasons 2014 Will Be A Break-Out Year For Women Entrepreneurs


While women in the upper echelons of corporate America are singing the same old  tune, “Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” female entrepreneurs have something to rejoice about it. The...
    






Is Skinny Southern Cuisine Possible? This Cookbook Says "Yes"


If January has one word, it’s this: diet. Ambitious, resolute people everywhere are vowing to diet and lose weight in 2014. One cannot argue with any attempts to be healthier, but there are smart...
    






Apple Patent Could Add Heart Sensor To iPhones


On Christmas Eve the US Patent Office dropped a present down Apple's chimney: a patent for a “seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor” that might one day allow an iPhone to identify and authenticate a...
    






Social Media Plus Cooperation Can Prevent Target Credit Card Problems


The 40 million credit and debit cards affected by Target’s security breach has finally put the dangers of online shopping in the spotlight or, rather, it has highlighted the weakness of real time and...
    






The Best Disruptive Writings Of 2013 — Health Care Edition


Clayton Christensen famously coined the term “disruptive innovation” to describe “simple business applications that relentlessly move up market, eventually displacing established competitors.”...
    






Your Very Own Drone-Watching Guide


What’s that strange bird flying overhead? Why, it’s a gray-breasted Dronus Predatorus, and it must be hungry, because it looks like it’s searching for prey. I know this thanks to my handy Drone...
    






In China, Rates Soar, Stocks Fall, Businesses Fail


On Friday, fears of another quarter-end credit crunch drove money-market rates in China sharply higher despite emergency central bank intervention announced Thursday.  In the last five business days...
    






Not The Top 5 Indie Games Of 2013


2013, it is fair to say , has been something of a banner year for indie gaming. It was a year that saw games like Gone Home take gaming from the tech section to the Arts desk. It saw a subversive...
    






Why Ambassador Locke is Really Leaving Beijing: Seattle has Better Coffee


There is a sense of disappointment from many American expats in China that Gary Locke is stepping down, though others have expressed a certain amount of schadenfreude glee at the potential hints of...