A small number of market leaders in the ICT space sit at the top of the ecosystem chain and pocket most of the profits. Despite helping the ecosystem flourish, the majority receive pitiful low returns. Operators that hope to boost their profits...
Read moreThe World’s Fifty Most Innovative Companies in 2017
This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. Our reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use...
Read moreThis biodegradable car is made from sugar beet
Environmentally friendly motoring is often associated with electric or hybrid vehicles or improved fuel efficiency. Now a group of students is challenging the idea that it’s not just the car’s fuel-usage credentials that matter, but its very...
Read moreEmerging economies might be deindustrializing too quickly
As today’s developed countries grew richer, they experienced a process of ‘structural transformation’. This means they first went through a period of industrialization as the economic center of gravity shifted from agriculture to manufacturing...
Read moreChinese tech giant Tencent has surpassed Facebook in market value
HONG KONG — China’s biggest social network and gaming firm, Tencent Holdings, which last week reported forecast-beating quarterly results, is close to making Malaysia the first foreign country to roll out its WeChat ecosystem, an executive...
Read more100 million more Indians are going to be connected to the internet, thanks to this ambitious plan
India is gearing up for a massive digital transformation of its vast hinterland. In three years from now, the Narendra Modi government plans to lay down the necessary infrastructure—including one million kilometres of optical fibre network—to...
Read moreWarren Buffett perfectly describes why the retail apocalypse is dooming Macy’s, Sears, and JCPenney
Retailers such as Macy’s, Sears, and JCPenney are closing stores as sales decline. Warren Buffett’s book of essays has an explanation for the root of the problem: companies prioritizing short-term goals over long-term investments. If Buffett’s...
Read moreWhy India is about to move to the ‘center stage’ of world energy
The disconnect is huge: Even as countries of the world pledge to cut their greenhouse gas emissions going into the Paris climate talks, recent analyses suggest that overall emissions will still rise through the year 2030, and current national...
Read moreWatch CRISPR edit DNA in real time
CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, refers to the unique organization of repeating DNA sequences. These sequences are a critical part of the immune systems of microorganisms like bacteria. The CRISPR system can...
Read moreScientists could eradicate pain by rewiring your brain
With the U.S. facing a epidemic-level addiction crisis, scientists are looking for novel ways to treat pain that don’t involve dangerous, highly addictive medications like opioids. Some researchers are even making inroads on therapies and...
Read moreBlockchain (& AI) Will Rewire Whole Industries
Everyone’s obsessed with blockchain – and for good reason. Blockchain is a technology that can solve some of the most vexing technological, professional and personal problems we face. But despite the elegance, complexity and security of the...
Read moreBlockchain and IoT: made for each other?
Blockchain and IoT provide several tangible benefits as individual technologies, but to really unlock their potential it is important to understand how they work together. Jean-Luc Scherer explores the myriad benefits of their convergence…
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