Technology & Innovation

New methods of creating solar cells cut manufacturing costs nearly in half. The New Jersey-based company is also working to create super-efficient cells by using nanotechnology.

If our digital devices were people, we would probably describe them as high maintenance and wonder quietly to ourselves if it was time to break up with them, says director at Intel Labs Genevieve Bell.

Five years after São Paulo, Brazil, began its fight against visual pollution by banning billboard, poster and bus advertisements, people are happier and businesses more creative.

In addition to recent military posturing, Iran is looking to extend a softer version of its influence to South America by signing trade contracts, opening embassies and financing development projects.

How would we redesign economies, markets, and organizations to help us live better? Umair Haque gives three lessons for turning the crumbling dream of prosperity into an opportunity.

An increasing number of colleges are beginning to offer courses or entire programs devoted to green business practices. Bard College is the latest to offer an MBA in sustainable business.

The best businesspeople don’t know everything. They’re the ones who are brave and truthful enough to admit mistakes—and learn the most from them along the way.

Cloud-based email provider Mimecast is looking to change the concept of email. The company’s co-founder says the medium must become more collaborative to meet business needs.

Handheld technology is changing the way education is delivered because it allows children to learn ‘anywhere, anytime, any place’ and the ‘magic’ of new technologies is proving inspiring.

No single online social network will ever replace Facebook, says Alexis Madrigal. Social networks will build on top of each other and people will belong to several networks at once.

By attracting business to the area and supporting local producers, hyper-local food sellers are bringing more jobs to localities than non-locally owned businesses, reports San Francisco.

Not only has Pinterest received $27 million in venture funds over the last few months, the site’s popularity has exploded from 1.2 million users in August to over 4 million today.

A $200 Google tablet, 1 billion Facebook users, Twitter a huge business, and mobile advertising booming. Next year should bring more than all this, says Business Insider Intelligence.

Revolution in north Africa and famine in Somalia grabbed the headlines in 2011 but Africa’s underlying mantra of the past decade has been growth, growth, growth.

Patients should have confidential, unrestricted access to their own medical history, say advocates in the UK. But will empowering patients help their health or overwhelm them?

It’s not an uncommon problem – it happened to McDonald’s, it happened to IBM, and it even happened to Apple, says Nancy Koehn, professor of business administration at Harvard. 

Be bold in the face of unanimous decisions, says entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan. Neuroscience, sociology and business meetings underscore her point. 

Year-end performance reviews are meant to help organizational goals and advance people’s careers but often the have the opposite effect of ramping up anxiety and tanking morale.

French car maker Renault is preparing to release its vision of what the commuter of the future will drive. The vehicle is built for two, has no doors and gets 62 miles per electric charge.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has told an Italian newspaper that the company intends to release a high-market tablet computer in the next six months which could rival Apple’s iPad.

While space exploration seems like a job only for companies with enormous resources, NASA is increasingly turning to small businesses for innovative ideas in exchange for research contracts.

As patient records have been digitized, an unintended consequence is that health data breaches have surged. The number of reported breaches is up 32 percent this year.

Facebook predicts that for the foreseeable future, the amount of information we share on the Web will double every year. Are we headed for an avalanche of daily trivialities?

America needs to make the dollars it spends on higher education work more efficiently.

Throughout the day, Zynga has been trading at or bellow its initial stock offering. While Zynga will still cash in, is its proportional success a sign that the tech bubble is shrinking?

When her product idea became an unexpected success, Victoria Ransom had to expand quickly. She was aware that choosing the right people would make all the difference down the line.

A digital scrapbook of your entire life. That’s what Facebook is releasing with its newest product Timeline. But in telling the story of your life, you may want to do some editing.

Fusion energy expert Marcin Jakubowski has begun an open sourced hardware project that allows individuals to create their own simple tools to build stronger, more sustainable communities.

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders’ career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today’s organizations. (Carla’s an actual executive […]

16 year-old Nick D’Aloisio has raised a quarter million dollars to develop an app that condenses any webpage’s content into summaries of three different, but brief, lengths.