Inflation by stealth: how Japan’s firms fight the frugal retail psyche

By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – After years of soggy inflation and the long reign of Japan’s tight-fisted shoppers, businesses […]

You’ll Never Guess the Weird Skill Mark Cuban Is Teaching His Kids

In addition to running the Dallas Mavericks and tearing apart business propositions on Shark Tank, billionaire Mark Cuban spends plenty of time […]

This CEO is paying 600,000 strangers to help him build human-powered AI that’s ‘whole orders of magnitude better than Google’

Matt Weinberger Business Insider Hive CEO Kevin Guo Hive Hive is a Silicon Valley startup that’s best known for its […]

The Skills Needed to Survive the Robot Invasion of the Workplace

Automation is coming to the workplace. Millions of jobs will be destroyed, but many jobs will also be simultaneously created in […]

The race to build a quantum economy

Venture capitalists, corporations and the federal government are investing in quantum computers, a powerful new generation of machines that one […]

Got a Problem? Turn It Into a Business Like These 15 Companies

For budding startups or aspiring unicorns, here’s a word of advice: Find a consumer pain point and address it. Companies […]

Legal tech is opening the system to those who need legal representation the most

 Jane (whose name changed for privacy purposes) had been living with her elderly mother for more than 20 years in […]

Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments

The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli […]

Where human intelligence outperforms AI

by David Kline With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of […]

Promises and pitfalls of online education

Eric Bettinger and Susanna Loeb EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Online courses have expanded rapidly and have the potential to extend further the educational opportunities […]