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Are the days of billable hours nearly over for lawyers? LawPivot is a site designed to aid startups find legal advice, by using a Quora-type question and answer format.
David Kirkpatrick talks to Jack Dorsey about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.
American ships are again under siege by pirates off the African coast. The Pirates of Somalia — we have the weapons to defeat them. All we lack is the will.
The quality of effective entrepreneurial leadership that I most admire combines a practical modesty with a frontiersman’s ability to step fearlessly into the unknown.
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Unless technology "offers a deeper meaning into your heart, into your soul, a deeper purposefulness, it’ll be vestigial, it’ll be gone," says the film exec.
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Peter Guber describes how Michael Jackson taught him a lesson on storytelling using a mouse and his Boa Constrictor "Muscles."
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The legendary producer describes watching Nelson Mandela open the hearts of a group of wealthy and hardened business people.
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Whether asking for a raise or pitching an idea, "emotionalizing" your case helps people metabolize the information of your argument.
The other evening I was asked onto a radio programme in order to criticise the international community for being slow, or downright useless, in responding to the Libyan uprising. What […]
America may not love unions—certainly not the way some countries do—but it doesn’t hate them either. Yesterday, I wrote that unions play an essential role in a healthy economy by […]
In his Big Think interview, the prospective GOP presidential candidate takes aim at what he calls the "fourth bubble," i.e., government spending.
There is one thing about living with a lawyer that never fails to amuse me. When I described to her yesterday how, despite a temporary restraining order prohibiting Wisconsin’s Department […]
I am somewhat dragging this week - I think it is the exhaustion that leads into spring break - so today's we'll have a Mystery Volcano Photo. Our last installment, […]
Navigating and coordinating all of today's social networking tools at the office spells w-a-s-t-e. Unifying the functions across platforms into one software will boost productivity for business.
Climate change expert Bjorn Lomborg says carbon pricing is a "broken" scheme and the world must instead invest heavily in R & D to make green energy cheaper than fossil fuels.
Ever wish you had your own personal makeup artist? That dream could soon be a reality with a computer that scans your face and suggests the perfect personalized makeup combination.
The fact that foodies so often construct their pursuit of rarified taste to be an environmentally and socially responsible act only intensifies the ugly paradox at the core of the movement.
Why are new drugs always tested on laboratory mice, anyway? And when a drug does successfully cure a poor mouse, how does it find its way to human drug stores?
What if scientific investment sought to benefit people directly rather than secondarily through technological development? Welcome to the emerging world of social innovation.
Apple didn't invent the tablet computer, but it didn't invent the MP3 player or the cell phone either, says Shane Richmond. Now Apple markets its iPad 2 as a post-PC device.