Outsourcing Ready to Vanish in the Cloud? Is the rise of cloud computing going to take out the $1.7 trillion global IT outsourcing business?
Updated Wed May 16, 2012
Marvel Announces Big Digital Comics Push, But Will It Fly? Marvel Entertainment wrested the digital comics spotlight back from rival DC with an audacious new initiative the company calls "ReEvolution," announced at SXSW over the weekend. Is it a step forward for the medium, or just for Marvel's business priorities?
Updated Mon Mar 12, 2012
Amazon, Big Box Edition As the online giant contemplates a move to brick-and-mortar retail, is this the next step in the transformation of shopping?
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
Who's Watching The Watchmen? Even Prestigious Comics Are Just Grist For The Entertainment Mill "Watchmen" may be a literary classic and genre game-changer, but it's not immune from exploitation by its corporate owners.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Apple’s iBooks Push Raises 6 Big Questions About The Future Of E-Publishing In the fast-evolving e-book space, Apple, Amazon, Google, and the various corporate content owners are huge and influential, and all battling each other over fundamentals of the market.
Updated Mon Jan 30, 2012
Obama Breaks Out Industrial-Strength Imagery To Rebrand His State Of The Union “Winning the Future,” a State of the Union slogan fit for a slick tech company, has given way to “Built to Last.” Like one of Detroit’s hot-selling hybrids that packages Silicon Valley smarts into a body of classic American industrial design, President Obama is counting on a combination of innovation and rebranding to lead a rust-belt resurgence before his administration ends up on the scrap heap.
Updated Wed Jan 25, 2012
In Superhero-Loving America, Tintin Has An Uphill Battle To Become The Next Batman If the combined commercial and artistic might of Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and a cast of thousands of the world’s greatest animators can’t propel the boy adventurer into the top tier of box office success, it’s hard to see the prospects for other non-genre comics.
Updated Thu Dec 22, 2011
Liquid Comics Launches Digital Platform To Capture India's Pop-Culture Crazed, Mobile-Connected Youth Though India's indigenous comics industry is struggling and the country has proved a tough nut to crack for foreign publishers like DC and Marvel, digital distribution offers a bridge to reach the massive youth market. Liquid Comics this week launched Graphic India, a new digital platform to promote comic books in India and showcase native artists and writers.
Updated Wed Dec 7, 2011
Can Comics Make The Leap To Digital In A Single Bound? Will digital distribution revitalize the comics industry or kill it? DC Comics brings judgment day nearer with a big move to "day and date" digital release for its "New 52" launch.
Updated Wed Aug 31, 2011
Chilean Entrepreneurs Redesign The Architecture Industry Two young architects build a new model on the Web and change the way their profession does business.
Updated Tue Jul 5, 2011
At The Endeavor Summit, World Class Entrepreneurs Shine At a unique conference, some of the most promising entrepreneurial companies from Latin America, South Africa and the Middle East strut their stuff for Silicon Valley investors.
Updated Thu Jun 30, 2011
Mezzanine Steps Meetings Up A Level Mezzanine, an innovative new technology from Los Angeles-based startup Oblong Industries, promises a cure for the common meeting with a feature set straight out of a science fiction movie.
Updated Thu Jun 16, 2011
Agribusiness Entrepreneurs Hope For Bumper Crop Of Investment A recent business plan competition demonstrated the breadth and quality of innovation from a new generation of agribusiness entrepreneurs.
Updated Fri Apr 29, 2011
Chinese Puzzle: Why China Is the Big Loser From the Headline Events of 2011 Political upheavals in the Middle East, disaster in Japan, fiscal austerity in the U.S.... and 9.7% growth in China. What could possibly go wrong?
Updated Wed Mar 23, 2011
Entrepreneurship Provides Opportunities for Talented Young Turks In the turbulent Middle East, Turkey is the role model: stable, secular, democratic, and prosperous. Can Turkey's rising young entrepreneurs point the way toward a more open and prosperous region?
Updated Thu Mar 3, 2011
Filmmaker's Path to Sundance Success Led Through Rwanda Alrick Brown's award-winning debut, Kinyarwanda, highlights the global vision of a new generation of African-American filmmakers.
Updated Tue Feb 1, 2011
Can America Compete Against a Rising Young World? In a speech pitched in the language of business rather than politics, President Obama challenged the U.S. to "win the future" against a rising tide of new competitors.
Updated Wed Jan 26, 2011
How Tech Tips the Scales in Favor of Young Entrepreneurs Recent research shows older entrepreneurs outnumber younger ones despite the hype, but youth still enjoys some advantages.
Updated Wed Dec 22, 2010
Online Publishers Grapple With the Vanity Press Conundrum With ebooks emerging as the new medium for literature, when should authors consider using ebook self-publishing platforms rather than trying for traditional deals with dead-tree merchants?
Posted Tue Nov 2, 2010
Five Leadership Lessons From a Fast Follower Not every great entrepreneur is a great innovator. Porn-king Bob Guccionne, who died today at 79, built an empire playing second fiddle to Hugh Hefner's Playboy.
Posted Fri Oct 22, 2010
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