Gmail And Google+ Down Last Friday, Impacting Millions Of Users


On Friday just before 11 a.m. PST, Google's Gmail went down, leaving millions of users – including business users relying on Google Apps for Business – unable to communicate. The downtime was...

Gmail and Google+ Goes Down On Friday, Impacting Millions of Users


On Friday just before 11 a.m. PST, Google's Gmail went down, leaving millions of users – including business users relying on Google Apps for Business – unable to communicate. The downtime was...

IBM Goes All In On Cloud – Announces A $1.2B Global Service Investment


When Bob Dylan famously crooned that the times they are a-changing he was unlikely to be thinking about the technology marketplace. But his lyrics are apt as I sit and reflect on some news that IBM...
    






Guns, Rods … And Titanium


To call Dave Lamoureux a fishing enthusiast would be an understatement. He set a new record, catching a 157-pound Bluefin tuna from his kayak off the coast of Cape Cod in 2009. A former Wall Street...
    






The Great Zappos "Circles" Experiment And Why It Really Matters


@giorodriguez  The New Year’s Day hype is deserved, but for reasons that may not yet be visible Funny thing about us humans: we are vulnerable to stories that are framed simplistically. A story with...
    






Lessons From Vanderbilt And Rockefeller: Know Your "One Big Thing"


With all of the media coverage about Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, it’s easy to forget that many of the gutsiest moves in business history happened long before Bill Gates...
    






How Phil Robertson’s PR Team Let Him Down


In all the flurry of news about Duck Dynasty’s current PR debacle I learned an important piece of information from a most unlikely source: TMZ. In one of a plethora of posts about the fallout to...
    






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...