Barbara Rose

Venture capital investment fell by a sharp 18 percent in the fourth quarter--the third consecutive quarterly decline--and money for e-commerce ventures has virtually dried up, a national survey indicates. Yet...

Chronicling Chicago's effort to promote itself as a high-tech mecca is like touching a tender spot to see if it's feeling better. In this case, it still hurts, but the...

It's easy to like a tax cut when Alan Greenspan says it's OK. On Thursday the chairman of the Federal Reserve reversed himself, at least a little, by telling the...

The voice on the other end of CEO Gian Fulgoni's phone crackled with static and fury. The caller demanded to know whether Fulgoni had seen the morning's Wall Street Journal....

The big news at Motorola this week is layoffs. Some 2,500 people in Harvard are losing their jobs because cell phone profits are falling and manufacturing costs are too high....

In business, as in sports, keeping score ought to be easy. The winner is the company that makes the most money. In the profit-challenged e-commerce world, winners are businesses with...

Tom Pirelli pads around his suburban home talking to himself, a small gold-toned plastic device attached to one ear. Star Trek fans would recognize the gadget: It looks like the...

You didn't have to be wealthy or stupid to lose money this year on an Internet venture, although plenty of affluent people blew millions of dollars on dumb ideas. You...

Around Wall Street last holiday season, the mammoth size of the shrimp served at investment bankers' parties was a sure sign of a stock market bubble. High-tech IPOs paid for...

When Chicago businessman Bob Steel got the Internet itch last year, he turned to MarchFirst CEO Bob Bernard to scratch it. Both ran profitable companies: Steel a family-owned industrial chemicals...