Guest post written by Joshua McKenty Joshua McKenty is CEO of Piston Cloud, an enterprise cloud software company. He was the founding technical architect of NASA?s Nebula cloud computing platform. In the last month, IBM, Red Hat, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have announced that they are joining OpenStack. This is only the latest indication ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 05:53

Mac Dougherty is co-founder with me in a company,??Cognitive Electronics, and before that, he founded??AskOnline, while an undergraduate at Harvard. He sends this story: * * * * * * * Johann Fust ??Johann Fust had a problem.?? A wealthy banker in Mainz, he was concerned about a series of loans that he had made ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 05:53

As a brand name in its own right, the Mercedes-Benz 4Matic all-wheel-drive system isn't nearly as well-known as Audi Quattro or Subaru "symmetrical" all-wheel drive with the catchy jingle about transferring power, ?from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip.? So it's a bit of a surprise to learn that depending on where ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 23:27

General Mills (GIS) announced that earnings fell by 0.2% though sales were 13% higher. The company earned $391.5 million, or 58 cents per share, for the fiscal quarter that ended on February 26, versus $392.1 million, or 59 cents per share in the same period last year. Adjusted earnings were 55 cents versus 56 cents, ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:55

Price to book and price to sales both show the company trading at a discount to the industry average.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

Over the past few months, I?ve received one comment several times: ?I didn?t expect to read something like this on??Forbes.? To me the comment reflects a rather unfortunate and growing divide between the worlds of technology and business. The two worlds are getting increasingly intertwined, but at the same time, business people are getting increasingly ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

? Times columnist Paul Krugman's continuous railing against austerity reached a crescendo with Greece's default. In his What Greece Means, Krugman vents his outrage: "What Greek experience actually shows is that while running deficits in good times can get you in trouble... trying to eliminate deficits once you're already in trouble is a recipe for ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 00:32

Gre Smith is an opportunist of the first order, and worse for those taken in by his "insider's account" of what actually goes on within the walls of the world's foremost investment bank, what he wrote was utterly nonsensical.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 23:23

Guest posts written by Andre Durane Andre Durand is??CEO of Ping Identity, a cloud identity security provider. For years, IT departments have stood behind protective firewalls determining who has access to what. It was a model that mapped well when everything (user, app and data) was contained in one company. But four megatrends are ripping ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 23:23

Tax resolution firm JK Harris and Tax Lady Roni Deutch closed up shop last year. Like TaxMasters, they faced suits claiming they exaggerated what they could do for taxpayers who owe the IRS.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 23:23