Business Pundit

Image: JDanvers/Flickr If you think that athletes are athletes and executives are executives, and never the twain shall meet, think again. There are quite a few CEOs and high-powered corporate types who have gone on to become super successful…. Read more

This February’s movie sales were dismal. Box Office Mojo has more: In February, movie theaters racked up nearly $660 million in sales, dipping close to 13 percent from February 2010′s $755 million haul. It was the lowest-grossing February… Read more

The new iPad defines the post-PC market. At least that’s what Steve Jobs suggested today during the unveiling of the iPad 2. Jobs, who said the new tablet would ship on March 11 (in black and white) came out to a standing ovation during today’s… Read more

A university education has grown so expensive that one college is lowering its tuition as a business strategy. From Brainz.org: In a surprising turn of events, at least one university, Sewanee University of the South, is lowering its tuition…. Read more

It’s very interesting to note that a recent study revealed that approximately 85 percent of companies globally are using open source software. Not surprisingly, the main motivator for using open source software is cost. Other indicators point to… Read more

Many people think that mind mapping is a process best used by creative individuals. But there are many ways that mind mapping can help in a business setting as well. It’s important to remember that a business is nothing more than a collection of… Read more

If you use Gmail, and your Google mail didn’t work starting yesterday, you may be one of the 120,000 or so users left stranded by a Gmail outage. Engadget has more: If you’ve got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so… Read more

There are many students today who are considering a change in their major. For some, they may have started out with a finance major, for example, before the economic problems that the country has recently been dealing with. Because of all of the… Read more

This is a post from Minyanville.com, written by Susannah Breslin. In man’s modern-day battle against the robots, the winner last week was abundantly clear. Watson, an IBM computer, appeared on “Jeopardy!” and soundly annihilated his two… Read more

Image: Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar/Flickr In case you thought Girl Scout cookies were immune to strategic cost-cutting, they’re not. The Atlantic reports: This year, Girl Scouts is rolling out a pilot program that will try to increase profits… Read more

This is a guest post by Karen Hough. By this time, most people realize that PowerPoint is a scourge — on our ability to communicate effectively, be remotely impressive or keep an audience awake. If you haven’t received that memo, your… Read more

TechCrunch reports on this post-revolutionary phenomenon: Translation (from the original Arabic article): A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and… Read more

President Obama is slated to meet with software captains of industry this evening. The most notable players include Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eric Schmidt. A lot of media commentary seems to be treating this as a celeb gathering, or some… Read more

With each passing year, businesses must change their approach to accommodate the rapidly changing elements of modern technology; television is fading and social media is on the rise, our approach to productivity has been totally rewired, and —… Read more