CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ernst & Young LLP is calling for nominations for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Awards, recognized as one of the most prestigious business award programs in the country. The deadline for applications is March 9

Jeremy Lin ’s hometown, Palo Alto, Calif. , was well represented on Sunday. A group who knew Lin before Linsanity, including the former Palo Alto High School basketball players Chris Bobel, Kevin Trimble, Kheaton Scott, Greg Walder, Brian Baskauskas and A

Summary: About two weeks ago, Dell announced it formed a new software group. In itself, this is not necessarily big news, but what gets us excited about Dell’s potential to finally become a serious software player lies in the man they hired to lead this

Some of us joke that we should be “Mother of the Year,” for the silly things we do or forget to do, but Dell Chief Marketing Officer Karen Quintos really is Mother of the Year. On Thursday she attended a reception by Working Mother magazine and Advertisi

Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs. There were small MP3 players around at the time, and there were players tha

MEDIA & MARKETING: The decision to embrace social media is not the same as getting it right – or ‘getting it’ at all THE CAUTIONARY tales are all too searchable: the foolish tweets even more foolishly deleted; the easy hijacking of fluffy, user-generated

It never gets old. It’s one of my favorite things. Apple is appreciating at the rate of one Dell per year! Next: power of two! Interestingly that’s the same turnover rate of Dell’s computers. ain’t it the truth. No, it doesn’t get old! But, at 15X it’s g

PC maker Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) would deploy cash flows to fund acquisitions to boost growth, Reuters reported. Dell could acquire small and medium size companies that would give it access to new technologies, Michael Dell, CEO, said at a business even

Voices were raised at a recent Santa Monica Planning Commission meeting over the proposed Fairmont Miramar Hotel project, the Santa Monica Daily Press reports. The current hotel occupies about 262,000 square feet in a building with 10- and 12-story tower

Walter Isaacson’s biography on Apple’s Steve Jobs gets one feeling it’s a pity biographies begin, as they must, with the subject’s early years. After the first 200 pages, many will be tempted to throw away the tome, tiring of a brattish Jobs who typifies

NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/13/12 -- Melrose Jewelers has come up with an entirely new collection of Rolex watches in order to celebrate the upcoming Valentine's Day along with presenting its valued customers a sophisticated and elegant item to g

As I promised you at the end of last week’s piece, this is the absolutely final, final episode of the world’s greatest book on advertising (He said modestly!) You won’t have suffer any more, unless you’re a masochist and buy the bloody book. Anyway… Here

HP CEO Meg Whitman, who will step out in front of a VIP audience at the invitation-only global partner knees-up in Las Vegas this week for the first since taking over at the vendor, should take a leaf out of Michael Dell's channel management notes. That'

You have heard the phrase, "Close, but no cigar." It describes someone who came close to the big payoff, but who missed it. Will he ever get over it? Will it haunt him for the rest of his life? Mario Cuomo could have had the Democrats nomination for Pres

This story appears in the Feb. 27 edition of Forbes magazine. “Nobody wants to take a risk on brand-new technology,” says Jeff Ready, founder of Scale Computing in Indianapolis. Small companies are especially skittish, yet that’s precisely the market the

Recommendations can enhance your profile, but they won't make or break your chances of getting a job. With 135 million members and two people joining per second, LinkedIn is becoming ever more important as a professional networking and job search tool. R

Although he was a visionary, Olson did not foresee imminent changes. Nokia’s CEO wrote an open letter, describing their position as a “burning platform.” “Fast” followers suffer the most as new innovations enter a market. “Fast” followers often don’t und

QUBYX Software Technologies Inc. , an expert in color calibration and medical imaging fields, has announced that their bundle of the premium DELL UltraSharp U3011 display and PerfectLum 3.0 DICOM calibration software has received the Food & Drug Administr

There are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael