Even the noise around big data noise has grown tiresome for most entrepreneurs, who just want to get their companies built and hope data can help. While collecting and storing data is starting to reach maturity, the ways businesses use this data are still too-often a pricy experiment that ends in a fail.

Educating and retaining young talent is one of the new core competencies of startup-heavy regions outside Silicon Valley. Here's how one state is rethinking the way it keeps young people building at home.

Three-member teams on which at least 1 person was in a good mood were more than twice as likely to collectively solve a murder-mystery puzzle as teams on which all members were in neutral moods, according to an experiment by Kyle J. Emich of Fordham University. That’s because people in good moods are more likely to seek information from others and to share their own knowledge. So if you start a meeting with a funny... More »

Lenovo's CEO on how the PC leader is poised to win in the "PC plus" world.

Sovereign borrowers should be judged by their own laws, says Laura Alfaro, not U.S. courts.