Explore proprietary technology. Learn about its types, benefits, and real-world examples to understand how it offers businesses a competitive advantage.

Dear Liz: One subject I’ve never seen you address is the use of proprietary funds by financial advisors. We’ve taken over the finances of my in-laws, whose advisor put their money in a well-balanced ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...

Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was ...

We all know that staying competitive in business means you’ve got to be willing and able to adapt over time, but company leaders might be surprised by the latest development causing a shift in the ...

Proprietary information is confidential information that a company owns and safeguards to protect itself. When any of an organization's intellectual property is recorded on paper, it becomes a ...

Proprietary trading firms, or “prop firms,” offer traders the opportunity to trade using the firm’s capital. In doing so, they allow the traders to minimize personal financial risk and maximize ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. This year has been hailed as the year of artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs. The ...

As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open ...

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s hard to put a price tag on the importance of proprietary research, but there are some numbers out there that are good indicators: ...

Do you need to access equity in your high-value home? If the house is your primary residence and you're over age 62, you're in luck. You could get a proprietary reverse mortgage and access equity from ...