Guest post written by Chuck Dietrich Chuck Dietrich is CEO of SlideRocket. The technology industry is thriving, fueled by a rise in innovative startups, an influx of venture capital funding and the promise of high value initial public offerings. Facebook's IPO is poised to be the largest U.S. stock market debut of all time, and ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 17:39

Everyone likes a list, so here five ways that the world actually is getting better at this time: 1) The U.S. economy is steadily and cyclically rebounding. Equity markets may have gotten a little ahead with their recent climb, consumer prices have begun to rise and major pension and medical-care cost problems loom farther out, ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 16:54

Even more than the caffeinated red beverage invented by Thai Billionaire Chalerm Yoovidhya, who died this weekend, the Red Bull is all about creating a buzz. When Yoovidhya partnered with Austrian Marketing legend , Red Bull became a pioneer in extreme sports marketing, finding the common thread of adrenaline between otherwise disparate athletes like BASE ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 16:42

Even more than the caffeinated red beverage invented by Thai Billionaire Chalerm Yoovidhya, who died this weekend, the Red Bull is all about creating a buzz. When Yoovidhya partnered with Austrian Marketing legend , Red Bull became a pioneer in extreme sports marketing, finding the common thread of adrenaline between otherwise disparate athletes like BASE ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 16:42

When I coached my oldest son?s fifth- and sixth-grade rec league basketball team, one of the parents took video of every game, and handed the DVDs to all the players and coaches at the next practice. She did it for fun, but as a coach, I quickly realized ? especially as I was pulling my ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:56

The five remaining groups bidding for Major League Baseball?s want the roughly 130 acres of land Dodger Stadium?s parking lots sit on to be included with their current offers for the team. The current bids for the Dodgers range from $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion. According to a high-ranking baseball executive familiar with the bids ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 18:55

California solar power plant builder BrightSource ??on Wednesday set an offering price target of $21 to $23 a share for its initial public offering that now seeks to raise $182.5 million. The startup backed by , French energy giant , , Silicon Valley venture capitalists and other investors will trade on the Nasdaq as BRSE. ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

Another day, another upgrade for restaurant reservation service OpenTable. Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler this morning lifted his rating on the company?s shares to Outperform from Market Perform, setting a price target of $50. The stock closed Wednesday at $41.06. The upgrade follows a similar move yesterday by Benchmark Co. analyst James Dobson. Kessler notes ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

The House and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers ??? including , Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram ??? asking how their social apps collect user information. The letters can be found here. It?s all part of an investigation into iPhone privacy that was initiated after Path, a social networking ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:06

Guest post written by Bill Harris Bill Harris, former CEO of PayPal and Intuit, is now CEO of Personal Capital, a financial advisory firm. There's a fissure that runs through Silicon Valley - and I don?t mean the San Andreas fault. The gap that I'm talking about is between tech companies and their employees. Tech ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:16