Sundance Tunes Into Online Audiences


The Sundance Film Festival is devoted to discovering and developing independent artists and audiences–so it’s time to embrace digital markets. As box office revenues stay low, the best bet for...

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...

Omaha explosion leaves 2 dead, 10 injured


An animal processing plant in Omaha exploded on Monday morning, leaving two people dead and ten injured. That number could rise, as firemen continue searching for bodies and possible survivors.The...

Google and the Social CRM Business


Relax, CRM vendors. Google is not getting into the customer relationship management business (CRM) anytime soon. But they should. Google seems to understand the Social CRM needs of small and medium...

Judaism In Cartoons And iPhone Apps


Teaching young people – and millennials – about religion can be a chore, not to mention sometimes boring or confusing for the students. One tech firm in San Francisco may have an answer for those...

The Partridge Family’s Dave Madden dead at 82


The world lost another great actor this week. Actor and comedian, Dave Madden, best known for his grumpy role in the 1970's sitcom "The Partridge Family," died at a hospice center in Jacksonville on...
    






A Little More Context On That Fired Yahoo Exec’s Massive Golden Parachute


As crazy as it sounds, severance packages worth more than $100 million — like the one Yahoo gave fired COO Henrique De Castro this week — occur with some regularity in corporate America, and have...