May
18
As of yesterday afternoon, the Talk That “TED Won’t Show You” had about 300 views on YouTube. Today it is up to more than 164,000–such is the power of the real new media: passionate viewers who have no trouble taking ownership of content and speaking up if they disagree with the media maker. In March …
May
17
You’d expect a poor person to say: When the rich take credit for creating jobs, they are like “squirrels taking credit for evolution.” But, in fact, it’s out of the mouth of venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, who was an early investor in Amazon and is a rich, very rich man. In March he gave a …
May
17
How important are small businesses to the economy of the United States? Consider these figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration: not only do they represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, they employ half of all private sector employees, pay 44 percent of the total U.S. private payroll, and have generated 65 percent of …
May
16
Silicon Valley never seems to learn. It’s always looking for the next big thing that will change the world and everyone’s bank accounts. The latest? Facebook and its Friday IPO, which is expected to value the social media company at $16 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs in history. Investors want in on …
May
15
As one of the major banking institutions that weathered the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, JPMorgan Chase emerged relatively unscathed, making last week’s announcement of a $2 billion loss in a surprising risk management failure all the more troubling. It’s unclear how the bank will reorganize its risk strategy after shareholders expressed their ire …
May
08
Following an alarming spike this spring that sent gas prices north of $4 a gallon across the United States, the cost of a barrel of oil has finally declined over the past two months. Though the prices have fluctuated due to economic concerns such as the debt crisis in Europe and weak job numbers in the U.S., …
May
04
It happened to Microsoft and now it’s happening to Google. The digerati are starting to question, disparage (and even hate) Google’s strategies. It’s a common story, the more powerful and successful a company becomes, the more we enjoy watching it fall from grace. The latest example comes from Om Malik, founder of GigaOM. “Google,” he …
May
03
The bankers have set Facebook’s initial stock price at $28 to $35 a share, which values the company at somewhere around $86 billion, making it one of the most value corporations in the world. According to an article in the New York Times, Facebook should start trading on Nasdaq May 17 or May 18. At …
May
02
If you didn’t get a chance to check out our coverage from yesterday’s WIRED Business Conference from New York City, then take a look at the following clips below. Can we leverage technology to hack our way to better government? Jennifer Pahlka, founder and Executive Director of Code for America, thinks so. Pahlka spoke with …
Apr
27
Starting on Monday, FORA.tv will be playing its part at the Event Marketing Summit in Chicago. Billed as the world’s leading executive conference on events and trade shows, the summit brings together the who’s who of event organizing and marketing. For the first time in its history, FORA.tv is proud to sponsor the summit. CEO …