Talks include "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Life" given by eBay Inc. founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, and "Wisdom-based Practice and Leadership" with Cisco Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior. Organizer and author Soren Gordhamer says he...

Maybe you've even won a few collectable items from it. But if you were asked how the name Pierre Omidyar connected to the site, would you have an answer? Pierre Omidyar is the founder of the successful auction site and he has lived a fairly quiet life.

EBay's billionaire founder and proponent of good works was addressing a roomful of White House Fellows in a closed-door question-and-answer session last month, hours before President Obama's State of the Union address, when a query stumped him: What do...

And you don't need much money, which explains why many of the dominant internet enterprises did not require major investment at the beginning. Tim Berners-Lee launched the web with no funding. Jeff Bezos started Amazon with his savings. Pierre Omidyar...

Certainly, this is the heart of the classic entrepreneurial model: you become obsessed with a particular problem, and create a business to solve it. Example: eBay was created by Pierre Omidyar to solve a perceived problem with inefficient markets, and...

2008 (before the Star Bulletin shutdown) a judicial foreclosure ad cost $800; it is now $2,000. A non-judicial foreclosure ad costs $4,300. Bad news for the monopoly: electronic publication is coming. Not Civil. Journalists around town note the...