Barbara Rose

Entrepreneur Henrik Danford-Klein was scanning news Web sites six days ago when a wire report caught his eye. A San Francisco judge was considering allowing bankrupt Internet service provider ExciteAtHome...

On the one hand, money to finance risky start-ups seldom has been so scarce. On the other, jawboning about the need for more venture capital in Illinois never has been...

We'll linger a little longer this year over the feast that kicks off our annual gift-buying spree, savoring the meal and our families. For some, the holiday means a break...

People say cats have nine lives. Divine Inc. has run through at least as many. But then, who's counting? Chicago's most ambitious start-up--an Internet incubator turned software company turned one-stop...

If you believe that what's good for Microsoft Corp. is good for consumers, the proposed settlement of the software giant's three-year federal antitrust battle is cause for celebration. If you...

Some people are good at catching a wave. Few rode the dot-com tsunami better than Chicago attorney David Jacobson, who organized a monthly networking forum that still draws some of...

These should be the best of times for the folks who run Comdisco's disaster recovery business. The tech services company pioneered the business of preparing corporations and government agencies for...

When Laura Cinat was placed on an involuntary six-month leave from a job she loves at tech consultancy DiamondCluster International in July, she threw a party. She and six other...

In the days before Motorola turned from a tech leader into a shrinking company--selling businesses, laying off employees, trying to hack its way back to profitability--its engineers and software developers...

Alicea Nixon flew to Denver last week on an ordinary business trip in extraordinary times. The night before she headed to the airport, the 31-year-old sales director for RedSky Technologies...