• Facebook And IBM: Together Can They Build A Smarter Planet?

  By Alex Cho: A recent article published by the Motley Fool, states that a partnership of International Business Machines ( IBM ) and Facebook ( FB ) would be a match made in heaven: As the Watson Group gets its feet wet, IBM is focusing its cognitive computing efforts on the health care and…

• Africa hits bump on road to prosperity

  Growing pains are troubling the blossoming sub-Saharan markets, where complex economic trends are posing challenges for policy makers

• Playing PLUG Power

  By John Gilluly: In my previous three articles on PLUG Power 1 ( PLUG ), I articulated the company's growing place in the lore of stock market manias. I did not include, however, descriptions of how the stock is being played as a casino game. Indeed, playing PLUG is fast becoming one of the most…

• Temasek / Olam: shorts sighted

  Singapore's investment agency would like to portray an offer to buy out Olam shareholders as a paternal-minded investor taking care of the little guys. But it is not about that

• Warburg Pincus strengthens Europe team

  The appointment is part of a push to target assets from the region's banks, which need to shrink their balance sheets in order to meet capital requirements

• Tableau Software: When You're Hot, You're Hot

  By Ted Stamas : "Big Data" visualization pure-play Tableau Software's ( DATA ) "land and expand" business model has paid off in spades. It's a grassroots level strategy that often nets individual customers via free trials, then spreads across an organization's…