Barbara Rose

Michael Dell smiles a lot but he doesn't blink. His close-set brown eyes can fasten a person like a bug on a pin. Behind his friendly grin is the steady...

Two years ago this week, a rumbling on Wall Street grew too loud to ignore. It was the sound of confidence cracking. The following week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq index registered...

There's a bounce in tech marketer Geoff Blanco's step, like the red, purple and yellow toys he carries in his coat pocket. They're freebies from a software company in an...

Sometimes we smell change before we can see or feel it, as when the scent of rain fills the air before the first drops hit our heads. University of Illinois...

Here in the heartland, a region once known as the Rust Belt, we're continually scanning the landscape for signs of a high-tech mecca. We look for portents of our future...

There's a reason investing manias only surface once every half-century or so. "You have to wait long enough for people to forget," says investor Roger McNamee, general partner at Silicon...

Most of the 9,000 former employees of MarchFirst Inc. have moved on from one of the bigger financial wrecks of the Internet stock bubble. But MarchFirst's former top executives and...

If you caught the recent reports about PayPal, a hot new IPO, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a time warp. It's been a long time since...

The Goldilocks economy--not too hot, not too cold--is a memory. The stock market is jumpy from accounting scandals. The Internet no longer is a flashy new toy that makes 20-somethings...

IGive.com founder Robert Grosshandler was easy to spot during the dot-com boom. He was a tall guy in a navy blue iGive shirt, talking about how the Internet would revolutionize...