The Agribusiness and Food Industry has grown to be a multi-billion dollar business that strives to feed the world. It is an industry that involves farmers, ranchers, food producers, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. The industry is increasingly facing . . .

Pitney Bowes acquired MapInfo in 2007 and has been integrating location intelligence into its core mailstream products and services to deliver targeted advertising benefits to its customers. Pitney Bowes is leveraging its mail services platform and the basic business requirement of mailing information to customers—like bills, products, or promotions—to optimize the cost efficiency of these processes and to drive new revenues for its customers.

Critigen, the IT Consulting and Managed Services Arm of CH2M HILL, a 62-year-old engineering company with $6.4 billion in revenues, was divested from CH2M HILL on September 16, 2009. Critigen made its debut as the leading information management solutions provider for modernizing critical infrastructure on October 19, 2009.

As Di-ann is driving around the Bay Area she uses Waze (http://waze.com) to find her way. From Waze she gets routing, traffic and road closure information. In exchange, Waze tracks her location and knows her ultimate destination. It knows that she is going slower than expected on Highway 101 and that she is probably in traffic.

About five years ago, the group I worked for at Microsoft looked at what was happening in the blogosphere and decided to bring it in-house. We saw that the conversations needed a

In a market-based financial system, developing business cases and determining the cost and source of capital and the viability of competitors are relatively straightforward activities. However, the ability to . . .

To understand true globalization’s playing field, businesses must learn a new way of looking at the map. National borders filled in with different colors are not just irrelevant, they are distracting, as are pins in cities. Instead, companies need to see the world’s urban centers and to understand their nature at a glance.

The difference between a business executive and a manager, an entrepreneur and an engineer, an investor and so much of what Wall Street has busied itself with over the last fifteen years is the difference between the unknowable and the known.