Do you have a magnetic brand — what efforts are you doing to develop a brand that truly draws people to you and your company? A magnetic brand is a brand that attracts people. Think about the brand’s you’re familiar with and attracted to. What makes them magnetic? Chances are they portray a certain image that you like to…

There can be only one winner in the battle of the big box retailers. In the new book The HIP Investor , author R. Paul Herman compares Walmart and Target in terms of profit, management, and human impact (health, wealth, earth, equality, trust). So which retailer is more sustainable? In our opinion, Walmart is the winner. It’s hard to…

Chinese automaker BYD announced a plan this week to build its North American headquarters in Los Angeles–the latest in a series of moves that are slowly turning California into the new electric vehicle hotspot. BYD, listed as one of our Most Innovative Companies , started selling its first plug-in hybrid (the F3DM) in China this week. The company also…

Southwest has pissed off its fair share of customers, bumping more of them from oversold flights than any other carrier last year. You don’t have to look to far to find disgruntled flyers saying things such as, “I have always flown Southwest in the past, but doubt I ever will again. Saying you care about your customers is not…

With what may be seen as curious timing, Google ‘s just revealed that soon it’ll be selling digital books through its own Google Editions store. The search giant is obviously keen to not let Apple and Amazon dominate an industry it hasn’t also wrapped a tentacle around. Google’s been mulling this sort of move for over a year, and…

Today I interviewed Tyrone Shum from Mass Outsource — actually it was my first video interview and it was pretty cool. I know I’ll do more of these because it is nice to see who you are talking with. (The video will be posted here at the blog shortly) We discussed outsourcing and how he used it to push…

McAfee pushed out a firmware update for its anti-virus software that’s wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of Windows XP computers. Looks like some bad coding triggers the deletion of a certain file that triggers a false positive in McAfee, which in turn snowballs into a huge mess of constant, unstoppable restarting and broken network functionality. Here’s the statement…

How perfect is this? So this sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it does: Esquire’s Joshua David Stein took it upon himself to create a Venn diagram of every single show in prime-time TV. While usually I post infographics and suggest ways they fall short, I find it hard to think of any possible way to improve this one.…

Imagine instant access to the latest market segment information at a meeting, or seeing the fourth quarter earnings for a company in (literally) the blink of an eye. Although it might sound like something from a science fiction novel, scientists at the University of Washington are working on solar powered contact lenses with transparent LEDs embedded onto the lens.…

They are starting to say it already, “Tablets are redefining digital media.” You’d think the Amazon Kindle; the Sony Reader and a dozen or so lesser knowns were from another planet. The iPad in the few short weeks since it’s launch have single handedly put tablets on the map. Its vastly superior design and capabilities as well as its…