The tech industry used to think big. As early as 1977, when personal computers were expensive and impractical mystery boxes with no apparent utility or business prospects, the young Bill Gat... Read more
Programs offering office space, contacts with prospective clients and often early-stage investment In an Art Deco office block on a side street in central London, groups of 20-something prog... Read more
A coming of age for Kickstarter When Eric Migicovsky, an engineer, wanted to develop a line of wristwatches that could display information from an iPhone — like caller ID and text messages —... Read more
The twenty-nine-year-old signed on with Start-Up Chile (SUP) Just over a year ago, George Cadena from Los Angeles, California, packed up his solar-panel startup Aeterna Sol and hit th... Read more
Demand for Google’s new social networking service, Google+, has been intense since its debut last month in a limited test mode. To get in, you must be invited by someone who is already a mem... Read more
This interview with David Sacks, founder, chairman and C.E.O. of Yammer, which offers workplace communication tools, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are the most importan... Read more
For all the clever things smartphones can do these days — like stream movies and play 3-D games — the latest mobile craze centers on revamping one of the earliest phone applications, the tex... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A few years ago, Silicon Valley start-ups like Solyndra, Nanosolar and MiaSolé dreamed of transforming the economics of solar power by reinventing the technology used to... Read more
Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain of the first dot-com bust, are displaying... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid — on top of the billions they’ve already received or r... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke via last.fm It’s summertime and the Terminator is back. A sci-fi movie thrill ride, “Terminator Salvation” comes complete with a malevolent artificial intelligence dubbed Sk... Read more
Image by University of Maryland Press Releases via Flickr MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new i... Read more
Mr. Gates had to personally put up a bond of more than $20 million Technology start-ups and big companies work together all the time — refining ideas, seeking mutual advantage and accelerati... Read more
Image via Wikipedia DOUGLAS P. HART, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who sold his last start-up for a tidy $95 million, is already on to hi... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Chemists are usually asked to invent a solution, but without considering hazardous by-products. Green chemists now are doing both with success, but will it take regulatio... Read more
