The future of work as we know it is shifting from an outdated directive approach toward collaborative frameworks that inspire us to engage in new and different ways with our work and with each other.
The nineteen-forties Bing Crosby hit "White Christmas" is a key part of the national emotional regression that occurs every Christmas. Between Christm...
Imagine if in our drive to understand where markets are going we stopped looking at data and instead focused in on ourselves, our needs and our aspirations. What kind of future would we see?
Temptation is more than just the promise of reward. Recent advances in neuroscience allow us to peer into the brain, providing a greater understanding of what makes us want.
We packed our bags and moved to San Francisco seeking the next challenge... and new service and civic opportunities. In our mind there was no better place for both of us than the most innovative region of our country, the San Francisco Bay Area.
Call it the Chilecon Valley or call it crazy. In 2010, the Chilean government launched Start-Up Chile's revolutionary pilot program in the hopes of positioning Chile as the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Latin America.
After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, Todd Branchflower became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II -- and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley.
As Congress tries to tackle the many sides of immigration reform, one of Silicon Valley's most contentious debates is getting renewed focus: Should hi...
Venture capital funding in California's cradle of innovation has dropped for the second quarter in a row, according to data from the latest Venture Capital Activity Report for Q4 2012, but entrepreneurialism keeps blossoming across the United States.
Brienne Ghafourifar wants to change the world. She believes "people everywhere should have the same access and opportunities to connect in meaningful ways and actualize their dreams."
Inequality in America is now at the greatest level in modern history and shows no signs of abating. Corporate profits are at record highs. But have those companies invested that in new jobs? No. Did they at least give their workers a bump in pay? Hardly.
When you live in a place like Silicon Valley, you have to stay up-to-date with the latest technological innovations, no matter your profession. The se...
California's Silicon Valley is a microcosm of America's new extremes of wealth and poverty. Facebook, Google, and Apple have minted hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in the city of San Jose.
It's a chilly winter Saturday, and the gray flooring at Roominate's headquarters/toy-testing space in a Mountain View office park is littered with scr...
We're not all (nor can we all be) cardiothoracic surgeons, human rights lawyers, or Mother Theresa. That leaves the rest of us critical thinkers scratching our heads about what it is we last did for mankind.
We need to advocate for policies that encourage rather than detract from the formation of startups and their continued ability to thrive and hire more Americans. Our jobs depend on it. Our entire economy depends on it.
Today, I am the co-founder of an enterprise software startup but at birth, my parents were still in high school. I lived in a trailer in a town with a current per capita income of $18,112, 6.8 percent of families living below the poverty line, and a crime rate 23 percent higher than the rest of the state.
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers t...
Doesn't anyone get why CEO, Marissa Mayer put the kibosh on telecommuting right now at Yahoo? It wasn't discrimination folks.
By Vivek Wadhwa Vice President of Academics and Innovation, Singularity University. Visit any company in the Valley, and you'll see that it resembles...
SAN JOSE -- In an $800 million deal, a group of American and Canadian investors have bought 73 Silicon Valley office and research buildings, which the...
Comedian TJ Miller stops by the What's Trending studio to talk about HBO's Silicon Valley, The Warner Sound's "Gorburger" show and react to some of pop culture's finest actors turned singers.
Peer progressives like ourselves believe that more efficient, networked solutions hold more promise to address complex social problems than slower, hierarchical institutions of the 20th century.
I know from personal experience both how powerful Sheryl's message can be and how silly it is to suggest she's elitist. If she were elitist, she certainly would have never taken an interest in me five years ago when we met.
Maybe if the FCC actually cared about data and not hype the FCC would actually be respected, instead of being considered a punch line of a bad joke.
