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Risk disclosures are standard boilerplate for publicly traded companies, but the scope of Tesla’s admissions include some eye-brow raising details -- including warnings about customers getting electrocuted by its electric cars if users try to hack them.

What should be an exciting growth industry for investors, the music industry is being threatened on multiple fronts. While some would be quick to think the music industry is battling technology companies, they are merely the delivery mechanism for the content that consumers are opting for in a format they are increasingly choosing.

It’s that time: Santa’s juicing up his sled to bring nice big lumps of coal to all the chief executives who’ve been naughty this year.

Some say Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has created a culture of bad behavior bordering on sexism and misogyny. I say it’s just bad PR.

Given the confluence of several factors including the near-unquenchable thirst for mobile connectivity, social media and the Cloud along with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, one of the growing pain points that we all face is cyber attacks.

Earlier this week, Google made headlines with the news that it’s spending over a $1 billion to lease an old NASA hangar on a historic Navy air base for a 60-year period.

Twitter has yet to figure out how to engage a broad, mainstream user base -- a tough thing to do under the bright lights of Wall Street.

CEOs face a strange turnabout: a growing list of lobbyists, agitators and special interest groups to answer to.

Technology improves our lives and makes the world a better place … at least that’s what they tell us. One question: Whose life and what world?

If the Republicans take control of Congress as expected, and run a full tally of their friends and enemies during this election cycle, it may well be lights out for the wind energy industry sooner than anyone expects.

Here’s a boost for the Geritol set. Cosmetic giant L’Oreal is set to make a 69-year-old actress its new face to the world.

There have always been plenty of dysfunctional and incompetent executives to go around. But at least we didn’t have activist investors to contend with. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on your perspective.

The tech industry is famous for its boom and bust cycles. There’s no doubt where we are in the cycle or that we’ve been here before, but now what?

When everyone fast-forwards through TV commercials and nobody even notices online ads, does advertising really influence buying decisions anymore?

Why Meg Whitman’s decision to split H-P into two companies is an uninspired and politically expedient tactic that’s tantamount to admitting defeat.

“Please stay on the line and a customer representative will be with your shortly.” How many times have you called your cable company or insurance company, and heard those words?

The beverage giant’s plan to double-down on Coke instead of diversifying in the face of multi-year decline in global soda demand is puzzling, to say the least.

You can follow self-obsessed narcissists on Twitter and reality TV, but if you want to be successful in the real world, don’t be one.     

Business is about business. It isn’t about you or anyone else. Nobody cares about your personal brand. Neither should you.  

The pundits say business leaders should engage on social networks, but the vast majority don’t … and shouldn’t.