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Tech is becoming a hits-driven business. This isn't a good thing. illustration by stephan walter No one waited in line to buy the first iPod.

Napa Valley Arts in April kicks off on April 1 with a month long series of events, exhibitions, installations, and classes at 30 wineries spanning from Calistoga to Los Carneros. Each winery will host its own unique repertoire of exhibits and events, including a collection of Ansel Adams’ photography at ...

Charlie Palmer’s annual Pigs & Pinot event may be sold out, but now through April guests of the Hotel Healdsburg in California’s Russian River Valley can have their own Pigs & Pinot weekend with a new, two-night package offered as a part of the hotel’s Epicurean Winter program. Guests who ...

Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley both have incredible talent, but theyre two very different ponds for fishing.

Silicon Valley investors betting on it, and scientists working to make it happen

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Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.

POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA--Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants--some 300 families were dispossessed of disputed land they had been living on for three years to secure the property rights of one powerful local family, the Widmanns, and its agribusiness company Chabil Utzaj.

Having a hard time finding a technical founder in the Bay Area? Do what tech veteran Jason Johnson did and go hunting in China.

A recent transplant from Minneapolis dishes on what you need to know if you want to live in the start-up capital of the world. Moving your tech start-up to Silicon Valley makes sense on so many levels

You're far from VCs and surrounded by people who don't like risks. Then again, the potential to be a big fish in a small pond is huge. Launching a tech start-up outside the VC-obsessed Silicon Valley and New York City comes with a catch-22.

U.K.-based dairy brand Yeo Valley follows up its popular "Rap" video by introducing a smooth new track from boy band, The Churned. It’s the goal of most ad makers today to create brand content that's at least as watchable as the entertainment it supports. It doesn't happen often, needless to say, but U.K.

For wine lovers who wish they had more time to research and try new bottles, Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley is offering its Club Vin du Soleil, a new club membership that delivers quality, limited-production wines to your door.