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IT Should Prepare For Cloud Startup Downpour

Venture capitalists are voting for cloud startups in staggering numbers. Start developing a rigorous process now for picking enterprise IT cloud tools and vendors.

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What You Won't Learn From 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs

Our billionaire-obessed society loves to ballyhoo the (rarely) successful mega-startup and its leader. But most of us can't start with a blank slate at our companies.

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10 Must-See Tech Product Ideas From Startups

Can you spot tech's next big thing? Check out ten hot new ideas, fresh from the Demo show, that could impact the way you work and play.

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3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules

Businesses of all shapes and sizes will soon be held to a higher standard of customer experience as they try to sell products, or convey content of any kind.

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Framehawk Says BYOD Is Not Rocket Science

Startup Framehawk, which counts a former NASA physicist as a co-founder, uses desktop virtualization and its own communications protocol to safely extend corporate apps and data to tablets and...

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3 Lessons From Yahoo's Meltdown, From An Insider

A former Yahoo exec who was laid off offers insights from the company's five-year drive to self-destruction.

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Yahoo ResuMess: The Trouble With Entitlement Culture

The resume drama for Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had a quiet player: a corporate culture that seeks fairness but produces employees who feel entitled. Here's what his successor, and all managers, must...

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Watch Out: I've Become The Boss Of Me

Cloud services are helping to create a new wave of super-powered, cell-sized businesses. Thanks to us, you may have to manage quite differently.

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PCs Tell Tablets: We're Not Dead Yet

The hoopla coming out of Apple this week notwithstanding, the PC is very much alive in a post-PC world. Here's why.

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Lean Startup Concept No Silver Bullet

Latest business management craze is called "The Lean Startup." Don't swallow this lite philosophy without asking some critical questions first.

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When Data Is A Matter Of Life Or Death

Healthcare analytics startup offers insights into how to develop the numbers when it counts for everything.

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Intel Puts Future On Exhibit

Imagine life without house keys or using an entire wall as a touch display. Walk through an exhibit of some of Intel's most intriguing research projects to date.

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What Food Trucks Can Teach IT Pros

From the growing caravan of rolling restaurants in cities like San Francisco, three trends emerge that even big companies and their IT pros should taste.

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Why Big Is Bad When It Comes To Data

Calling it "big data" doesn't do it justice. Gushing data would be far more accurate.

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Yahoo Heroine Mayer Boards Ship Lost In Space

As dramatic narrative, it doesn't get much better than this. Here's why we must root for Yahoo’s heroic young CEO to save the day.

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Apple-Samsung Case Hurts You, Me, The Economy

Both companies deserve our wrath as their patent trial gets under way. Why? They're propagating an intellectual property war with immense collateral damage.

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IT Free Agency: A Migraine For Managers

Knowledge workers continue to stampede out the door and onto their own. It's a trend that will only intensify, and it could put you at a competitive disadvantage.

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Tech Startups Reinvent Basic Business Models

Mobile, social, and local have been the hottest trends in tech. But TechCrunch Disrupt panel shows that the action today is in enterprise tech.

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New Face Of IT: Line Of Business Execs

Without a CIO or a corporate IT staff, Jennifer Trzepacz deployed cloud-based tools to help LivingSocial grow by 4,100 full-time employees in one year.

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Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You're Disrupted

Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the ways Silicon Valley companies like LinkedIn push the edge without falling off.

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