Topic: Texas

Ecotality and BP Work Together to Roll Out Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

With the Nissan Leaf and GM's Volt hitting the streets in December, GE, BP, and a host of design stars are racing to install the gas pump's high-style replacement.READ»

A Walk Down Horror Lane

2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Psycho and the 100th birthday of the first movie version of Frankenstein. In the run-up to every horror lover’s favorite holiday, here’s a look at the numbers behind the business of scary movies.READ»

Kiva and Visa Partner Up, Extend Into Gulf Coast Region

Kiva, fresh off its expansion into higher education loans and one year after its entrance into the U.S. market, is moving full speed ahead to help Gulf Coast entrepreneurs recover from devastating setbacks.READ»

Starbucks Wants Baristas to Slow Down, Can Caffeine-Craving Customers Wait?

Starbucks made headlines around the world last week for telling baristas to slow down. Now they aren't to make more than two drinks at a time, and they're to steam pitchers of milk and grind batches of coffee as needed instead of all at once.READ»

Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?

The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»

• Built Strong: Measuring Livestrong's Revenue, Spending, Followers and Reach
• Meet Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman, the Most Savvy Health Care Leader in Social Media

Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes

After seeing countless shoeless impoverished children in Argentina, Blake Mycoskie started TOMS Shoes in 2006 with a simple idea: If you buy one pair of shoes, TOMS gives one pair of shoes to someone who needs them.READ»

Antiquarian Is a Fresh Typeface From Dead Times

Your handwriting is atrophied. Get a new one, and make it old-fashioned.READ»

What a Doping Scandal Could Mean for Lance Armstrong, Livestrong, and Its Cancer Crusade

Two positive drug tests for Tour de France winner Alberto Contador have raised new questions about doping in cycling, U.S. champion Lance Armstrong's own involvement, and how a scandal might affect his charity work. But the CEO of Armstrong's Livestrong insists the Contador news "isn't on my radar." Here's why.READ»

Can an Oil Spill Really Be Cleaned Up?

Since the Gulf oil spill of April 2010, people have been asking us, 'Can you really clean up an oil spill?' "Well, not entirely." That answer comes from biological oceanographer Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.READ»

Saving the Grid From Ugly Overhead Wires

This week, American Semiconductor received its largest order yet--over 3 million meters of cables for superconductor cable manufacturer LS Cable of Korea.READ»

Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand

The most creative business leaders I know recognize that success is not just about marketing differently from other companies. It is also, and perhaps more importantly, about caring more than other companies--about customers, about colleagues, about how the organization conducts itself in a world with endless opportunities to cut corners and compromise on values.READ»

Re: July/August 2010

The Big Apple Nice job, Farhad Manjoo ("Apple Nation"). Not only do you peel back the layers to reveal what makes Apple Apple, you do so systematically -- offering clear, insightful messages to other companies striving to be ...READ»

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Technology Changes the Face of Politicking

Pols cast votes for Gowalla as the next social-media game changer.READ»

Greenforce Initiative Brings Clean Energy Jobs to Community Colleges

Corporations and governmental organizations have poured billions of dollars into clean energy initiatives over the past few years. But with those investments comes a need for qualified green collar workersREAD»

Power Is an Addictive Drug

In this excerpt from his new book "Power: Why Some People Have It--And Others Don't," author Jeffrey Pfeffer tells about one man's indulgences in the perks of power, and the devastating withdrawl when it was taken away.READ»

Homeland Security Department Begins Using Iris Scanners to Track Illegal Immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security is testing iris scanning technology from Global Rainmakers to boost border security.READ»

Open Thread: Does AT&T's Network Still Suck?

Luke Wilson may claim AT&T's network covers 97% of all Americans, but with billions invested this year alone, has your service noticeably improved? READ»

iFive: AT&T Facebook Protest, Craigslist U.S. Defeat, Yahoo Brain Drain, Alzheimer's Drugs, BP Spreads the Blame

Having survived destruction at the hands of two asteroids yesterday, the world spun on through the night and more news happened READ»

Geographic Bias: One of the Greatest Threats to Marketing and Research

Too often, we find ourselves applying the "focus group of one" mentality to our work, assuming that the place we're from is indicative of what the country--or the world--thinks. But we have to strive to challenge our own geographic assumptions and bring a diversity of cultural perspectives to the discussion.READ»

The First $3 Billion Is the Hardest: BP Starts Paying Up

The oil giant dumps its first--and largest--deposit in the escrow account set up to compensate for the spill. So will Gulf residents get paid now? READ»

Peak Oil Provocateur Matthew Simmons Passes Away

Matthew Simmons, perhaps peak oil's most unlikely advocate, passed away today from a heart attack at age 67. READ»

Iowa: The Wind Energy Capital of the United States

China may have overtaken the U.S. as the Saudi Arabia of wind power (got that?), but the U.S. is still home to some major wind energy powerhouses.READ»

Do You Pass the Leadership Test?

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action--an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign--even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.READ»

Politicians Desperate for New Campaign Technology Grasp Onto Gowalla

Every candidate is keeping an eye out for the next big technology that'll revolutionize campaigning. Is this necessary? No, and here's why.READ»

Pepsi Refresh Project's "Do Good For the Gulf" Campaign Takes Off

Launched as an extension to Pepsi's Refresh Project, which crowdsources grants for worthy organizations, the initiative will dole out $1.3 million in grants to projects that help the Gulf--and any projects that directly deal with the environmental impacts of the BP spill don't count.READ»