Four Fearless Predictions For The Music Industry In 2014


Tonight 2013 comes to a close, and with it, so does a typically eventful year in the music industry. In the past 12 months, we’ve seen new releases by acts from Jay Z to Katy Perry, continued...
    






Yahoo To $40 And Now Beyond


A little over a year ago here in Forbes, I wrote a post about how Yahoo! was going to go to $40 by the end of 2013. It turns out that was a very accurate call, as the stock now trades slightly above...
    






Four Reasons Merck’s R&D Restructuring May Not Save The Drug Giant (Or The Industry)


Last Friday, Wall Street Journal reporters Peter Loftus and Jonathan Rockoff broke the story that Merck is planning a dramatic R&D restructuring.  The goal is to look externally for more programs...
    






Meet The Real ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ In Forbes’ Original Takedown Of Jordan Belfort


Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street” is a raucous bacchanalia of sex, drugs, and money on Wall Street that focuses on the excesses of Jordan Belfort’s career at over the counter brokerage...
    






NY judge rules NSA phone surveillance is legal


NY judge concludes NSA phone surveillance is legal, rejecting ACLU effort to halt program NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk...
    






The Five Top "Fibs" Told By Sprint Management in 2012-13


We are in a new world now where its hard to believe what just about anybody says.  ARoid says he never doped but then he admitted he did.  Bill Clinton never smoked but then he did but then he never...
    






B2B Customer Service And The Anti-Amazon: Delivering Books For Authors (And Not By Drone)


As a customer service consultant and speaker, my feeling is that, at its heart, customer service is customer service, period.  It’s humans — and the systems and technology created by those humans —...
    






2013 Was The Year Everything Went Right For Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Fighter


Thirteen is looking like the F-35 fighter’s lucky number.  After struggling for a dozen years to make program realities match government expectations, in 2013 prime contractor Lockheed Martin saw...
    






2013 Was The Year Everything Went Right For Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Fighter


Thirteen is looking like the F-35 fighter’s lucky number.  After struggling for a dozen years to make program realities match government expectations, in 2013 prime contractor Lockheed Martin saw...