Going green can be profitable - that is the conclusion of multiple studies that have looked at the financial outcomes of corporate efforts to improve their environmental impacts. By reducing emissions, packaging materials, and waste, Walmart, , and many other companies have been able to reduce their costs and improve their environmental impact.?? This has ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Kai-Fu Lee shares three key tips for the next Startup Asia generation of Chinese entrepreneurs.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Last week the Melvan?a 1972 Dodge Sportsman Royal Van once owned by beloved sludge-metal group The Melvins?was at the center of a massive bidding war on eBay. As I explained in my piece on the Melvan, part of the fervor surrounding the Melvan is due to some curious graffiti of rock group KISS drawn by ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Everyone has heard of the monster returns to some venture funds from high-flyng social media and technology companies: Facebook's potential??800x for Accel, 's??350x for KPCB and Sequoia, Zynga's??100x+ for Union Square, Foundry, and Avalon.?? These single big tech wins returned (or will return) multiples of their entire funds. The sad reality is that these types ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:48

? The fan community has exploded with rage, the internet has been filled with competing op-eds, a petition has been started, and in a wonderful twist, thousands of dollars have been raised for sick children. Now, Bioware is beginning to respond to the controversy surrounding the ending to Mass Effect 3. In a recent interview ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:26

There are over 3,000 bands at South By Southwest this year. You can't turn around without bumping into somebody's guitar. So how do all these artists wind up getting gigs in Austin to begin with? What do they do to set themselves apart? And how much, if anything, do they get paid? Yesterday I posed those questions to a half-dozen up-and-coming bands.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:24

Most people believe that the first step to starting a new company is to have a great idea. Back in business school, there were countless ?idea brainstorming? sessions where groups of students would try to come up with the next billion dollar idea. None of them ever turned into anything. Great businesses are not built ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

Verizon says that it plans to cover 400 markets across the U.S. with LTE by the end 2012, so widespread availability of LTE should not be a concern then.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

Technology firms don?t generally talk about their deals with repressive regimes to sell censorship and surveillance technologies. So Brett Solomon, director of the digital freedom non-profit Access Now, is trying a different tactic to find the private sector partners of Pakistan?s censors: Process of elimination. With just one day left in Pakistan?s open invitation for ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

The head of Hong Kong's Treasury and Financial Services Bureau, Professor Chan, blasted those that call for the end of their peg to the U.S. dollar, noting they are consolidating their financial hub status on the back of the RMB.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54