Coffee is such a heady concoction – antioxidants, caffeine, and the molecules that give it its wondrous flavor – that it’s almost tragic to think that it might be bad for us. But over the last...
Google launches private ferry service to help take workers from San Francisco to Mountain View SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — How's this for an employee perk? Google workers commuting from San...
While the year 2013 might already be starting to feel like a distant memory, it certainly gave us some exciting startup companies likely to disrupt the way we look at the world in 2014. Here are...
If you feel like you’re consistently finding there’s more ‘work’ than there is ‘day’, you’re not alone. Too many of us get caught up in putting out fires, wasting time on tasks that don’t really...
Sen.se has come up with a series of motion sensors that monitor among other things temperature and movement. Their function is to serve as a motherly figure that takes every issue you have and offers...
Nancy Collamer, a career coach based in Old Greenwich, CT, offers hope to the burned out and the bored in mid-career. It’s possible to switch gears in midlife and to start a new venture that brings...
By Marc Lanthemann The 20th anniversary of NAFTA’s implementation on Jan. 1 has revived some of the perennial arguments that have surrounded the bloc since its inception. The general consensus has...
By Scott Beaulier As the year came to an end, there were plenty of things from 2013 to look back on and be pessimistic about. Edward Snowden’s revelations about the scale and scope of NSA spying,...
Bitcoins were worth nothing in 2009, when the digital cryptocurrency was first minted on the computer of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed to live in Japan. Four years later the...
In his 1997 management classic The Innovator’s Dilemma Harvard professor Clayton Christensen coined the term disruptive innovation. The central premise was that a change in technology can completely...