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I spent last week in snow-plow position, trailing my 4-year-old daughter down ski slopes. On the lift rides up, while singing songs with mispronounced words (Frosty the Snowman has a “bucky” nose, by the way, instead of a button), my thoughts drifted to a struggle that occupies me today. I am negotiating a series of license agreements for my “ Outthink the Competition ” IP and I want to make sure I don’t get taken for a ride.

We sifted through media coverage of Facebook's imminent IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups. Get ready to ride the linked-up lightning. Now it's Facebook's turn to share

Christie’s Richard Lloyd got a stark demonstration of David Hockney’s popularity when he tried to convince collectors of the artist’s work to part with choice pieces for a Hockney-only auction that he was planning. “I rang people up and asked them to consign, and they said, ‘No, we don’t want ...

Catering to the assistants is the best way to get a call back from the bosses.

When it comes to being good corporate citizens, enlightened self-interest can and should carry they day. Learn how two remarkably different companies, Gibson Guitar and IBM, are doing good for their brands and their communities. At first glance, Nashville-based

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

The Desceliers map of 1550. On a Renaissance map of the world, there is a small white elephant standing near the Arctic coast of Russia. How it got there is a mystery

Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com, ready to crank out trendy head-to-toe looks by tapping a vast database of designer apparel and accessories. Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com ready to offer inspiration.

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City is revealing an intimate view of 20th-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, and Jeff Koons at its new exhibit, Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, which runs through January 8, 2012. Rather than featuring ...

Art and politics don’t generally mix. Just ask Spanish painter Francisco Goya

Kickstarter is asking that a patent be invalidated--or at least, that it not be found to be infringing upon it. Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website that helps advance original ideas, is under attack for being a copycat.

A new project from 350.org lets people fill in the blank spots in their city with potential exciting improvements. If you were paying attention in New York this past weekend, you might have noticed signs plastered to telephone poles, buidlings, and fences. They're requesting that something--a green roof, a bike lane, a urban farm--be "inserted" at the site

What do Lady Gaga and direct-to-consumer marketing have in common? The answer is a lot. Building communities all starts with finding a common thread that brings people together

A robotic bird that is so life-like it fools other birds into flying with it may be the first step in humanity's ability to truly mimic the natural world, and thus learn how to better use our planet. Taking to the skies over Edinburgh's Holyrood Park, a gossamer-winged mechanical bird (which we wrote about when it debuted, here ) is mobbed by flocks of its living brethren