I coauthored this piece with??Gunnar Counselman, the founder and CEO of Fidelis, a venture-backed technology company that partners with leading colleges, veterans' organizations, and companies to solve the military-to-career transition for the nation's service members.??He has also been a colleague of mine for the past several years as an adjunct fellow at??Innosight Institute. Although long ...

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

With VIX up 2.9%, the double long TVIX is down 29%. How did this happen?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

Sales of 's iPhone surpassed shipments of the , Ontario-based smartphone maker's BlackBerry handsets in 2011, Bloomberg reported Thursday. sold 2.85 million iPhones in Canada last year, according to Bloomberg and IDC. RIM, by contrast, shipped just 2.08 million BlackBerrys in its home country. In 2008, the BlackBerrys outsold the iPhone by "almost five-to-one," according ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:49

Micron Technology shares lost ground in late trading Thursday after the memory chip maker posted disappointing results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 1. For the quarter, Micron reported revenue of $2.1 billion, flat with a year ago, but a bit ahead of the Street at $2.02 billion. The company lost 23 cent a ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

Executives who want to understand what social media really means need to jump in. By David Edelman For all the buzz around social media, one aspect has been largely ignored: the need for top business executives, especially CEOs, to personally get into the social media game. A recent survey by BRANDfog (PDF ? 4.2MB) points ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

IT services provider Accenture reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended February 29. For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $6.8 billion, up 12% in U.S. dollars and 13% in local currency, and ahead of the Street at $6.6 billion. Profits of 97 cents a share topped the Street consensus at 86 ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

The Senate voted this afternoon 73-26 in favor a bill that loosens SEC regulations in order to permit small businesses easier access to capital, thereby creating jobs. This bill passed despite an impassioned plea by Majority Whip Dick Durbin to extend debate and hold hearings on small business legislation. The Senate legislation amends the JOBS ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

A new idea, a new idea! My kingdom for a new idea! ?(Again, apologies to the Bard) In my earlier post, I argued that innovation for its own sake is a waste of resources and a huge opportunity cost.?? I used the example of a 7-inch long hotel key, but I could equally well have ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 03:20

? ? Today is UN?s World Water Day with water and food security as its theme. Leading up to it, panelists gathered at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France last Friday to discuss creating a more systematic approach in understanding the linkages between water, food and one additional sector, energy, and policies that ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 03:25

??Andrew Seidel recently??appeared here??with a guest post on the unconstitutionality of the ?parsonage? exemption, which allows ?ministers of the gospel? to exempt some of their compensation from federal income tax if it is designated??as a housing allowance.??This post is in part a response to my criticism of the Freedom From Religion Foundation as being perhaps ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 04:25