Ernst & Young is on the search again, for the 26th year, looking for the worlds top entrepreneur, a journey that involves thousands of the worlds top business leaders and their advisors, judging pane...
Matthew Buckland, editor of Memeburn, argues that the focus on Facebooks [$FB] share price collapse, is a distraction from the many positive factors that will shape its future. He owns shares in Face...
(Jill Tarter ponders the uncertain future for Alien search project SETI.)Wednesday evening I was at a great local salon organized by Taylor Milsal and Christine Mason McCaull, which featured Jill Tar...
Researchers at HP Labs said they have developed a way of managing energy use in data centers that can save as much as 30% in power costs while at the same time lessening dependance on power utility g...
... And Why Outsiders Are Essential To DisruptionHenry Blodget, the founder and chief editor of Business Insider, an online news company based in New York City, is notorious for his role in Wall Stre...
(Steam rises from the Svartsengi geothermal plant in Iceland.)...Ive long been interested in Icelands potential to become an important platform for server farms because of its natural abundance of ge...
Theres a lot of anger around the botched IPO of Facebook but much of that is from the "smart money" that wasnt able to convince retail investors, the regular people who invest in stocks, to t...
Facebooks IPO is considered a failure in that the share price was too high to attract retail investors. Theres more bad news. More than 1.7 billion shares owned by insiders, such as employees, etc, w...
There are thousands of articles dissecting the reasons why things went bad for Facebook [$FB] yet none have mentioned the role of secondary markets. In these private stock exchanges, Facebook was tra...
Chief Marketing Officer or VP of Marketing/Communications has to be one of the toughest jobs around these days. Why? Because of the massive fragmentation going on in media and communications. ... The...
Workers at the prosperous de Young Fine Arts museum in Golden Gate Park staged a friendly protest Friday evening during the popular "Young at Art" celebration of the talents of students from ...
(The Facebook Campus: One, Hacker Way. Photo by Tom Foremski.) Lucy Marcus, a leading advocate for reform of boardrooms, is highly critical of Facebooks corporate structure, following a "Sharehol...
Gary Bloom has been named CEO of Mark Logic, which returns him to his database roots. This is an interesting appointment and shows that the board of Mark Logic is trying to spruce up the database com...
(Bryan Rhoads, Editor-in-Chief of iQ at Intels offices in the Presidio, San Francisco.) Earlier today, I met the team responsible for this mornings launch of iQ by Intel, an online magazine featuring...
The solar array at Intels Vietnam Assembly and Test Factory in Ho Chi Minh City. (Flickr photo.) By Intel Free Press The largest operating solar power plant in Vietnam was installed recently at Intel...
ZERO1 Executive Director Joel Slayton and Jaime Austin - Curator and Director of Programs for ZERO1 ZERO1, the biennial arts and technology festival, announced a massive expansion in its program this...
Several thousand leading professionals from top Silicon Valley companies are gathering in Santa Clara this evening for a banquet honoring this years Women of Vision award recipients. The annual event...
NDS, the TV technology firm Cisco recently bought for $5 billion, was in town for a couple of days this week, ensconced in the W hotel and showing off its vision of TVs future, which essentially mean...
(Muslim women in Istanbul compute while having lunch. Photo courtesy of Chris Schuepp. (Flickr photo)) By Intel Free Press Turkey was Europe’s fastest-growing economy last year, expanding by more tha...
Jason Pontin, editor of Technology Review has a long history in publishing, he was editor-in-chief of Red Herring during the dotcom boom-to-bomb days. Hes written a great article about why publishers...
The discovery that Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has been claiming to have a Computer Science degree for years, and did not correct statements that identified him as an "engineer" is not surprisi...
(A cardiac patient and his doctor using the Medikart telemedicine cart.) By Intel Free Press A few weeks ago, a 70-year-old man showed up at the emergency room of a small Baja California hospital wit...
(Allison Lovejoy - photo - Tom Foremski.)This Saturday evening is the always excellent "April in Paris" featuring a great lineup of performers for just $10, starting at 8pm - Workspace 2150 F...
(Photo by Tom Foremski.)Friday evening April 27 at the de Young in Golden Gate Park: Note - All public programs are free and do not require a ticket. 2012 Artist Fellow Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxniq...
It was raining but a decent turnout at club Mighty in San Francisco, where Myles Weissleders SF New Tech showcased top Japanese startups. Myles Weissleder introduces the startups...The event was spon...
(Stephen Hawkings support team: Travis Bonifield (from left to right top row), Rob Weatherly, IT support; Sam Blackburn, graduate assistant.)By Intel Free Press British scientist Stephen Hawking cele...
(Photos by Tom Foremski)JapanTowns four-day Cherry Blossom finished Sunday with a parade and a prize ceremony for best Manga costume.It was a lot of fun, and multi-ethnic in procession and in audienc...
(Photos by Tom Foremski.)Dan was walking along the sidewalk outside the de Young museum, which is staging "Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" (you can see the white lettering by his ...
(Offline Tales - a new (ir)regular Friday column.)Wednesday I was in North Beach heading for the Bubble Lounge and Media Bistro sponsored by the Horn Group.It was great to catch up briefly with Sabri...
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