Rita Moreno Receives 50th SAG Lifetime Achievement Award


Rita Moreno has been honored at the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is a fabulous three-in-one artist who works as an actress, singer and dancer. The lady has been paid tribute at the SAG Awards...

The App That Zaps Sales Reps, SuperSolver Takes Cues From Apple’s Sales Playbook


David Montoya didn’t like being a lawyer and hated being a CPA. In rapid succession, the MBA with a law degree cycled through a white shoe law firm and a Big Four accounting firm before finally...

Barbara Bush Is Right About Political Dynasties, But America Would Elect Jeb Bush Anyway


“If we can’t find more than two or three families to run for office, that’s silly, because there are great governors and great eligible people to run.  And I think that the Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes...

Why Are Executives Jumping Ship At Barnes & Noble’s Nook Unit?


In the past few months, three key senior executives have left Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook and digital device division. Bill Saperstein, Jim Hilt and Jamie Iannone have all jumped ship. In...
    






Because It’s All About Virality – Dropbox Scores Funding At A $10B Valuation


Crazy you might say but WSJ is reporting that Dropbox has raised $250M in a deal that values the company at an incredible $10B making it one of the ore highly valued VC-backed companies out there....
    






Slumping Intel to cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2014


Intel aims to boost earnings by dumping more than 5,000 jobs in 5 pct reduction of workforce SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year...
    






Why It’s Still Not Game Over For Nintendo


News remain grim for Nintendo's Wii U video game console, and this has led to renewed speculation over the Japanese company’s future as a hardware manufacturer. The bad news is in the numbers....
    






FDA OKs mental disability blood test for infants


FDA approves novel genetic test that screens infants for predictors of mental handicaps WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test...
    






Should Digital Health Startups Prioritize Eyeballs or Revenue?


The good news, I guess, is that the well-worn “eyeballs versus revenue” debate – a dialog that has beset the tech world for years – has at long last reached digital health, suggesting that now there...
    






Will Wearable Computing Be Tim Cook’s Rubicon or Waterloo?


Many misinterpreted my column of yesterday as predicting that Tim Cook and Apple will fail. Even Paul Carroll, my “New Killer Apps” coauthor, took it that way, and suggested that Napoleon at the...