A long goodbye to Oprah (and the Oprah Effect). It's official. Oprah Winfrey will announce to viewers on today's show that she will be retiring from her long-running talk show at the completion of the 2011 season. No need to shed a tear for Oprah, who has amassed a fortune reportedly in the neighborhood ...

Imeem is a start-up with a great service (free online music!), lots of users (15 million, according to Quantcast), and a compelling story. Unfortunately, it's pretty darn hard to make it in the online music business. The start-up has struggled this year, because of a poor advertising market and high ...

We just did something that some would say is crazy. We -- the company best known for making "worm poop" gardening products bottled in what were previously plastic soda bottles, and for turning billboards into messenger bags -- are creating products based on Huggies and Scott paper products from Kimberly-Clark. ...

A recent survey commissioned by e-mail marketing provider Campaigner found the top challenge facing small business owners today is customer acquisition and retention -- by a landslide.  The 2009 State of Small Business Online Marketing Survey questioned over 250 North American small business owners ...

For many organizations, the supply chain is their very lifeblood. Its impact is massive, affecting business processes at every level -- from manufacturing to packaging, distribution, and customer relations. As companies grow larger and more global, their supply chains become more complex. Greater complexity ...

I recently wrote about a man who is using technology to catalog and file every single memory and experience he has had. A new CNN article continues along these lines, reminding us that our memories are not foolproof but that technology can help us overcome this blind spot by remembering things for us. ...

Steve Case's $300 million payday. It may not be much compared to that ill-fated, monster merger he presided over several years ago--the effects of which persist today--but Steve Case just won himself another big payday. His finance company, Revolution Money, will be acquired by American Express for ...

I was watching Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com launch Chatter (the social networking app for Salesforce.com). No surprises here. The video features a scruffy Benioff on a James Bond slick stage in front of a presentation screen the size of an IMax screen. He works the audience like a rock star while ...

You'd be surprised just how many small to midsize businesses still don't leverage their marketing materials online. It's easy to let this one fall through the cracks. For a startup, there are so many other priorities in play just to keep things going. Here's why you need to make this a priority, too: ...

Gartner analysts recently presented at the IT Symposium in Orlando, Florida, asserting that “information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets.” There is also the idea that the following 5 “amplifying developments” ...