Technology & Innovation

An E.U. bailout of Portugal now seems inevitable. But at some point, E.U. taxpayers are likely to tire of bailing out nations like Portugal, which seem unwilling to curb their spendthrift ways.

With agriculture research on a down slope, large food companies have begun wading into science and policy realms to ensure the future sustainability of natural resources—and the food business.

The human body has become a site for debates, as the genetics and biotech industries argue for owning genes, tissue samples, and even the very processes that occur in our cells.

Ask yourself: Is your leadership style about exploiting individuals or about empowering employees to be the best they can be?

In line with national objectives outlined by President Obama to improve building efficiency by twenty percent in the next ten years, entrepreneurs can take advantage of ample funding.

Google’s controversial plan to digitise millions of books and create the world’s biggest digital library has been shelved by a New York judge who said the deal was neither fair nor reasonable.

Sourcing and transporting goods can be the most overlooked—and inefficient—parts of how a business is structured. Here’s how to examine and improve the social impact of a supply chain.

Robert Lemos tells the story of Biogen Idec, a biotechnology firm that moved its business into the cloud and learned lessons about flexibility, finance and data security along the way.

Federal ethanol mandates that encourage its production are a major reason why food prices worldwide have reached record levels in the past several months, say some economists.

While 100 million users is an impressive milestone for LinkedIn, though its active users are below this number. As it prepares for a public offering, growth in users will be important.

It’s no longer enough just to influence people, social media strategists now strive to poke the influencers. Key objectives include: “activate my key opinion leaders”.

The days of interrupting people while they are being entertained in order to blast out your marketing messages are over. Today, we need to actually “engage” with audiences.

Humanities courses are starting to be deeply influenced by a new array of powerful digital tools and vast online archives. Undergraduates are experiencing Shakespeare in 3-D!

After 2008’s banking crisis, the recession in 2009, perhaps the next phase of global economic turmoil will come from public finances. The problem is especially acute in top-heavy Europe.

The U.S. economy is dealing with its problems by printing trillions of dollars. As these dollars flood the markets, investors have increasingly turned towards gold to hedge their currency doubts.

The Chinese government may be intentionally disrupting access to Google and other Web services as part of a campaign to tighten Internet controls and censor material.

As emerging markets become major players in the world economy, nations must insist on growth that distributes income across populations in order to prevent protectionist trade policies.

It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are.

Should we seek leaders who are visionary, inspiring, brilliant and trustworthy to follow or those who create change by relying on everyone’s creativity, commitment and generosity?

It’s 10 years since the iPod changed the music industry for good. Back then not everyone shared Steve Jobs’ vision of the future.

Microsoft, Adobe, eBay, T-Mobile and Salesforce were a few of the tech companies that made Ethisphere’s annual unranked list of the world’s most ethical companies.

General Electric recently polled 1,000 business leaders in a dozen countries to get a sense for where business innovation is headed. The results? Companies must brace for big changes.

Kevin Parker, Head of Deutsche Asset Management, says that private money is finally coming to climate change technology. He says investment will increase annually for the foreseeable future.

The nearly 97% of food waste in North America that ends up in landfills could be cost-effectively turned into renewable fuel, says Paul Sellew, C.E.O. of waste-to-fuel firm Harvest Power.

Ben Horowitz, partner in the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital company, says there’s a new big wave of technological innovation coming in cloud infrastructure technology.

Faced with the prospect of raising children in a world even more wired than theirs, a new breed of parents are redefining child rearing for an age of digitally native children.

Relying on the cloud is just so irresistibly efficient. No more printouts, bulky drives or e-mailing documents to myself. Yet it’s terrifying to rely on technology more than my own memory, says Jen Wieczner.

New technology keeps business travelers working on the move but is a ripe environment for hackers. How to stay safe? Use whole disk encryption, VPN and avoid public Wi-Fi, for starters.

The Atlantic Wire continues its series on media diets with Tom McGeveran, editor and co-founder of Capital New York, detailing his daily regimen, which starts in the middle of the night.

Algorithms are allowing advertisers to better target us with books we’re likely to like. Macy Halford wonders if one day these mind-readers will equal advice from real-life friends.rn