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Toll House Takes The Middle East

Meet Ziad Dalal, CEO of Nestlé Toll House Cafe By Chip, and a man with a mission to make the humble chocolate-chip cookie go global.

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The Recommender: Tim Quirk, Kenneth Parks, Pete Holmes, And More On What They’re Loving This Month

.bigbody a {color:#008CB3;} .bigbody img {display:inline-block;width:100px;vertical-align:top;} .bigbody p {display:inline-block;width:480px;vertical-align:top;} Tim Quirk Head of Android global content programming, Google The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett "Pratchett, who's pretty much the Mark Twain of fantasy, is returning to his sci-fi roots. Speaking of Twain, where is volume two of the autobiography he wouldn't allow to be published until 100 years after his death?"

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When Did Being Nice Get So Complicated?

Giving back to the community is harder than it looks. What would you do in a situation like this? Sometimes trying to do something nice doesn’t work out so well.

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Do Entrepreneurs Need to Be Crazy?

And if they are, can they ever make a successful CEO? If you've ever started a company, you might have a disorder. That's the thesis of the Inc

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Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter! Love Google, Facebook, AOL

Aw, look at the cute baby! Coloring in the lines! Riding that trike with ease! Looping those shoe laces into bunny ears! You're all grown up now, Twitter! Today, Twitter turns just five years old, but its accomplishments far outweigh that of any adolescent's. And while Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone are blowing out birthday candles on a cake made of black truffles and 140 ounces of gold, like any relative, we thought it the perfect time to highlight what the social network has achieved. After all, just look at how much the San Francisco-based company has to celebrate.

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Why I’m Not Proud of Being Gay

The Oxford English Dictionary (hereon "OED", for simplicity’s sake) offers several alternative definitions for the term pride . Almost none of them are positive. For present purposes, let’s skip the more obscure leonine variant--and in fact, a "pride of lions " may actually have its etymological roots in the symbolic representation of this animal during the Middle Ages for the biblical sin--and instead turn our attention to the rather slippery semantic aspects, since there’s a lot encapsulated by this peculiarly bipolar word.

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How to Name Your Company

Though some experts would argue that a company name doesn't affect the success of a business, there is a thing or two that small businesses can learn from the corporate giants that have turned their names into high-profile brands. When it came to finding a simple company name, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company had its hands full.

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