How To Attend A TED Conference Like A Pro
Guest post by Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of FerrazziGreenlight. Adapted from his best-selling book Never Eat Alone TEDGlobal offers almost unlimited opportunities to build relationships with extraordinary...
View ArticleWhy Hipmunk Is The World’s Best Travel Site
English: Hipmunk's mascot (Photo credit: Wikipedia) George Orwell said journalism is “printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” Bully for you, Eric Arthur...
View ArticleBarclays’ Tiny Fine And The Other Biggest Corporate Wrist-Slaps Of The Decade
David McCandless and Katherine Ariel Lay at InformationIsBeautiful published this nice infographic visualizing the biggest corporate fines of the last seven years, with color blocks indicating the...
View ArticleComplacent Telcos Deliver Americans Third Rate Broadband Service At High Prices
If you want cheap, fast Internet, move to Lafayette, La., or better yet, Paris. The New America Foundation released on Thursday “The Cost Of Connectivity,” a global study comparing triple-play bundles...
View ArticleAT&T Q2 Results: Discipline, Growth, No New iPhone
Would you believe we're crushing Apple? Discipline. Sanity. Reason. The nation’s biggest wireless carriers finally embraced these virtues and their financial results are showing the benefit of not...
View ArticleHere’s How To Save Radio Shack
photo courtesy: Tape Tardis In the words of esteemed Forbes contributor Larry Downes, Radio Shack is going out of business…slowly. Today the company reported a loss of $21 million in the second quarter...
View ArticleSprint Nextel Cheers Investors With Clear Signs Of Turnaround
Sprint Nextel Corp. CEO Dan Hesse (Image credit: Getty Images North America via @daylife) It’s all about the ARPU, and this morning Sprint announced the industry’s biggest-ever year-over-year increase...
View Article(More) Unsolicited Advice For Marissa Mayer
Written by Sriram Krishnan, a former engineer/manager at Yahoo and Microsoft. This item made the rounds of a few tech aggregators but I thought it’s good and Sriram was cool with me re-posting it. OMG,...
View ArticleThe Best Apps For The London 2012 Olympics
In case you haven’t heard, the London Olympics is on. It’s big. How are you supposed to make sense of it all? Here are some tools, not necessarily listed in order of preference or quality, to help you...
View ArticleTed Turner’s Dad Was Irate His Son Chose To Major In Greek
(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The excellent blog Letters of Note ran this bit of correspondence from Ted Turner’s father to his 18-year-old son upon receiving the news that young Ted had...
View ArticleDalton Caldwell Punches Facebook In the Nose
Image via CrunchBase Dalton Caldwell is a noted developer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He has startups imeem and picplz under his belt. He used to have big hopes and dreams for a Web 2.0 that...
View ArticleDivorce Charts Of The Billionaires: George Soros Edition
George Soros (Photo credit: WEF) UPDATED WITH SOROS CHART: Billionaire George Soros announced at a party on Aug. 11, 2012 at his Hamptons estate his engagement to 40-year-old Internet yoga...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula
This is a guest post written by Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park, Calif. He blogs at Above The Crowd. You can follow him on Twitter at @bgurley. Bill Gurley Many...
View ArticleWhy Intuit Is More Innovative Than Your Company
Intuit CEO Brad Smith; cofounder Scott Cook It’s lunchtime at Intuit in Mountain View, Calif., and the company’s almost-daily ritual is under way in the cafeteria: office hours with Scott Cook....
View ArticleFour Ways Intuit Keeps New Ideas Flowing
In a feature story published in the Sept. 24 issue of Forbes, I profile how Intuit has adopted startup-like approaches to developing new product ideas. Here, Intuit CEO Brad Smith lists the four...
View ArticleThe iPhone 5 Debut: Who Are The Winners and Losers?
It's a tug of war for sure. With the iPhone 5 launch tomorrow, JP Morgan’s research team is out with a massive report breaking down which companies in the technology food chain stand to gain or lose...
View ArticleImpact Capital Is The New Asset Class
One of the highlights from the Forbes 400 Summit On Philanthropy was the panel ‘Impact Capital Is The New Asset Class,’ and not just because I was the moderator (entire video below). It was thanks to...
View ArticleTalking Philanthropy With Marc Benioff
see photosDavid Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesClick for full photo gallery: Marc Benioff When Marc Benioff founded “cloud” software pioneer Salesforce.com 13 years ago, he committed the company...
View ArticleHow The So-Called Clinton Recovery Really Happened
Excerpted with permission from the Sept. 18, 2012 “Eye On The Market” newsletter from Michael Cembalest, Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Asset and Wealth Management. Read the complete report...
View ArticleZeebox: The App For The TV Obsessed
Is it me, or have people gotten insanely obsessive about TV shows in the last couple of years? It’s a cargo cult. Dozens of bloggers spend their nights and mornings ‘re-capping’ their shows moment by...
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