When you think of companies that have managed to survive the recession and remain relatively stable throughout, Best Buy could be one of the businesses on your list. After all, they’re still alive and kicking. Despite a scandal last year involving then CEO Brian Dunn and a female employee, a situation that caused Dunn to resign and leave plummeting stock ... Read More »

It’s easy to see how important social media has become in the business world. Companies large and small now spend serious time and energy maintaining vibrant pages on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest, and more visual firms expand to Tumblr as well. With millions of people around the world spending huge chunks of their days tapped into these services, social ... Read More »

Imagine a world in which printing out 3D objects is as easy as printing an email. That world is fast approaching, and it will be upon you quicker than you might think. According to industry leader Gartner, 3D printers are going to drop below $2,000 by 2016, a date that is not far away at all. The technology needed to ... Read More »

So, here’s a bit of trivia that you may or may not know. If you were born in 1973, then you are about as old as the first mobile handheld cell phone (that you could use outside of your car) is. That’s right, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the debut of the handheld mobile phone and the first ... Read More »

When Pinterest first started, the website was described by many as being a place where you can do a form of “online scrapbooking”; it was a place where those who enjoyed pin-board style photo sharing could engage family members and friends online. That was in 2010 and it had about 10,000 members nine months after its launch. For a start-up, ... Read More »

It wasn’t really all that long ago that people started having options that would allow them to monitor their own health. The first home pregnancy test (from e.p.t.) didn’t come to market until 1977, just 35 years ago, and it revolutionized the way women found out they were in the family way. Today, there are apps that can tell you ... Read More »

The last couple of years have been tumultuous for the video game industry. It was not that long ago that Facebook game maker Zynga suffered a nearly disastrous IPO (following a similar fizzle for the highly anticipated Facebook IPO). But it could be said that Zynga is something of a one-trick pony, even if it was at the forefront of ... Read More »

In the wide world of home health care options that let individuals take control of monitoring and managing their own wellness (without having to go to a doctor for tons of useless and pricey tests), there are more options these days than ever before. And your smart technology is rapidly expanding that number. You’re probably familiar with home test kits, for example, ... Read More »

The truly wonderful thing about technological expansion is that advances made in one industry always have the potential to find uses in other, seemingly unrelated areas. Just look at mobile communications, for example. At the outset, nobody expected cell phones to become so centrally linked to automotive technology. And yet the number of people talking and texting in cars (not ... Read More »

You’d think major internet companies would have learned their lesson by now when it comes to privacy laws. After being targeted by the FTC for misrepresenting their privacy policies to users (and getting slapped with a $22.5 million fine, the largest penalty of this sort to date) Google should know better, but this week they found themselves back in court, ... Read More »