Silicon Valley's embrace of failure as a step toward success can be confusing — especially if you're the venture capitalist that put up the money.

Microsoft announces a fix coming soon for their newest operating system. But will that be enough for customers?

The Washington perspective is that failure is failure. The West Coast thinks failure leads to innovation. What does that mean for West Coast-based Fisker Automotive, which took stimulus funds from Washington?

The number of bank failures in 2011 fell from the previous year, but banks are far from being out of the woods just yet.

You can learn a lot from failure. But focusing solely on the act of failing doesn't tell the whole truth about success.