For the Week Beginning Monday, October 6th, 2008

By Donna Fenn, Inc., Oct. 2008
They are running businesses in fields as diverse as Wi-Fi and fashion, blogging and music. Combined, they manage nearly 600 employees and have raised more than $100 million from investors. They have graduated from (and, on occasion, dropped out of) some […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, September 29th, 2008

By Mark Leib, Creative Loafing, Sept. 24, 2008
“Theater’s always been my passion,” says Rand Smith. As it has to be for anyone working in the theater, because, well, it doesn’t pay much. And in the case of community theater actors, it pays nothing at all. […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, September 21st, 2008

Emerging Tampa Bay Architects, with CreativeTampaBay, is hosting Tampa's first installment of Pecha Kucha Night on Fri., Oct. 10, 7-10 p.m. The event takes place at Romeo's Gallery (1515 7th Ave., Ybor City) during Archifest, a month-long celebration of architecture and design in Tampa Bay. This event […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, September 15th, 2008

By Cristina Silva and Steve Huettel, St. Petersburg Times, Sept. 12, 2008
Jabil Circuit will remain in St. Petersburg and build a new $54-million complex for its worldwide headquarters and local manufacturing operations. One of the Tampa Bay area's largest high-tech companies, Jabil plans to add 850 new […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, August 25th, 2008

Trendwatching.com, Sept. 2008
When something previously deemed “emerging” has managed to completely invade the mainstream, you know it's time to throw overboard any remaining doubts and inhibitions, and just get going to claim your shrinking piece of the pie. Case in point: the near-total triumph of […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, September 1st, 2008

By Daniel Gross, Newsweek, Aug. 30, 2008
In the just-completed summer Olympics, America's status as the globe's athletic hegemon was clearly under attack. The United States won the overall medal race, edging out China 110 to 100. But the hosts won significantly more gold medals, and favored […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, August 25th, 2008

By Amy Harmon, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2008
David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote “Evolution” in the rectangle of light on the screen. He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, August 18th, 2008

By Sam Gustin, Conde Nast Portfolio, August 3, 2008
When the earth shook in Los Angeles earlier this month, the first reports didn't come from traditional media outlets, but from Twitter, the "micro-blogging" service where users can send short, instant status updates to their friends via email and […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, August 11th, 2008

By Duncan Hewitt, Newsweek, Aug. 9, 2008
Thanks to newfound wealth, liberal arts courses are starting to bloom in the developing world. China's academies are obsessed with getting ahead in engineering and the hard sciences, so the subject of the master's program Dalian Medical University introduced three years […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, August 4th, 2008

By David Brooks, The New York Times, July 29, 2008
Between 1870 and 1950, the average American’s level of education rose by 0.8 years per decade. By 1910, it was 9.6 years, and by 1960, it was nearly 14 years. America’s edge boosted productivity and growth. But the […]