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Shoefitr Accomplishing Major Feets

The difference between an employee and an entrepreneur is not the “Why didn’t I think of that?” heard around bar stools and coffee tables worldwide. It’s “Why didn’t I do.

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Now You See It, Now you ____ : Invisibility Cloak Made Reality

While its not as sexy as Jessica Alba in the The Fantastic Four, “the cloaking device” demonstrated by researchers from University of Texas at Dallas is pretty damn cool. Their.

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Health Data Insights Acquired for $400 Million

Las Vegas-based Health Data Insights (HDI) has been sold for $400 million to HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY). The deal is expected to be closed by December 31st of this.

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Startup Smackdown: Treehouse vs. Codecademy

Because programming skills are in such high demand, a plethora of companies are popping up, wanting to teach you how to program. There is a lot of money in this.

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From Latvia with Love: Car Rentals and Bull Fights with RentMama

In the attic of a decidedly unremarkable office building in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England, is an incubator, the Ignite100, backed by a seasoned range of been-there-done-that.

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This is the Year of the Virtual Fit Assistant

It is difficult and confusing for shoppers to know which garments will fit and flatter them without trying the clothes on in the store, because clothing sizes are not standardized..

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MBA: Ticket to the Top or Corporate Middle Management?

When my husband Brad was first accepted into Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business I was not excited. I remembered shouting at him, “An MBA is just an expensive ticket.

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Startup Smackdown: BookRenter vs Chegg

Let’s face it, textbooks are expensive and often not sources of reading pleasure after their purposes have been fulfilled. In a world where Netflix delivers DVDs right to your door.

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Facebook vs. Everyone: What’s in a Name?

Last year the social networking giant we all know as Facebook launched a number of lawsuits against websites that had the suffix “book” in their name. Among them, Lamebook, a Facebook parody.

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Could Your iPad Survive a 1,300-Foot Drop?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that G-Form makes the most ridiculously awesome iPad cases in the world. Why you might ask? Two reasons: 1) The G-Form guys had the.

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