Add this to your lexicon: "Broadercasting" is the word now being bandied about to describe how more people are creating more content and reaching more viewers. Eighty-five thousand industry leaders will clamor to use it and sound au ...READ»
This emerging generation of designers wants to do more than create handsome and functional products. It’s out to protect the environment, improve health, reform education, and empower communities.READ»
At our Masters of Design event Wednesday night at the Chelsea Art Museum, we caught up with some of our expert design bloggers to find out how some of the most creative minds in the business start their day. Video by Anne ...READ»
Flight-information company ITA Software, featured in February's "Ready for Takeoff," is on board to be snapped up by Google for $700 million. Google says it has no plans to sell airline tickets online, but if the deal is okayed by ...READ»
If you wouldn't eat your bath and body products, you're using the wrong stuff, says Teporah Bilezikian, owner of the makeup company Monavé: "Cosmetics are like fresh batches of pudding -- they shouldn't last six months."READ»
One upside of a down economy: Museums are getting more popular. In 2009, 57% of U.S. museums saw an uptick in attendance, and the industry is looking to social media to keep the trend going. "By engaging people online, we can inspire ...READ»
Sweet-toothed consumers will spend $214 million on candy canes this holiday season -- 2 billion of them in all. Sales are expected to be up 2% over last year -- growth that Dylan Lauren, founder of the New York sugar palace ...READ»
Peter Rad
Whether photographing drug smugglers or suburban swingers, paintball players or the eco-paranoid, Peter Rad approaches his subjects as a storyteller. "I often script dialogue for the actors in my images," he says, in the ...READ»
Half of all U.S. adults have taken an adventure-travel vacation in the past five years, and the sector has grown solidly among women -- especially for no-boys-allowed trips. Susan Eckert, founder of the Montana firm Adventure Women, ...READ»
The Oscars may seem as if they're all about who gets to hoist those 8.5-pound statuettes, but the designers whose gowns are worn to the ceremony are the night's other big winners, raking in millions in PR and buzz. (We're still ...READ»
"Investing in the Future" may sound like a personal-finance seminar,
but at Toys "R" Us, it was one of the past year's top toy trends.
Learning and exploration products delivered 4% of sales in the $21
billion sector. As that slice ...READ»
The U.S. expects its largest-ever soybean crop this year: 3.2 billion bushels, enough to make 77 pounds of tofu for each person on the planet. Still, that might not be adequate, given rising demand for meat -- and thus animal feed -- ...READ»
Less than 25 years ago, women in the U.S. were denied business loans unless a male relative cosigned. Crazy, right? Thanks to the National Association of Women Business Owners, the Women's Business Ownership Act passed in 1988, ...READ»
By the time Cindy Padnos founded venture-capital firm Illuminate Ventures in 2009, she'd pretty much done it all. She had worked the tech circuit in corporate America, provided management consulting for companies from Apple to Boeing, and even launched her own software as a service company, Vivant. She felt her foray into venture funding was the natural next step.READ»
Liza Sabater has considered herself to be a digital rights activist since 1997, when her now ex-husband was sued by Mattel for trademark infringement (he produced digital-art parodies).READ»
Kapin founded Women Who Tech, which encourages collaboration and community among women in tech by hosting annual telesummits and webinars throughout the year.READ»
Women 2.0 is the brainchild of Angie Chang, Shaherose Charania, Shivani Sopory, and Wen Wen Lam -- four Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs who wanted to see more women like them start companies and thrive.READ»
Holzschlag is a member emerita with the Web Standards Project and the author of 35 books, and has served as a consultant for numerous companies, including Microsoft. She currently works for Opera Software as a Web evangelist in developer relations.READ»
