April 23, 2015
The value locked up in highly regulated industries grows with very year. Startups are realizing there’s an opportunity in unlocking these markets, and their backers are looking to help.
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April 23, 2015
The world has many people who chronicle the events of our lives but no one group of people writes more of the first page of history than reporters.
April 21, 2015
The tech industry’s “fail fast, fail often” mantra has proven successful in pumping out world-changing innovations in record time. The faster one figures out what doesn’t work, the faster one can get to something that does. Failure is a good thing that is a natural consequence of the innovation process.
April 15, 2015
Every company is a tech company these days, and data-driven innovation is happening in every corner of our country.
April 2, 2015
Peter Thiel, the legendary co-founder of PayPal, says that the greatest threat to technological growth in America is a culture that embraces conformity. “I worry that the conformity problem is worse today than it was in the ‘50s,” said Thiel at an event hosted by the Mercatus Center.
March 31, 2015
Edward Luce writes in the Financial Times that “American’s politics is remarkable for its resistance to new ideas.” Luce contrasts this way of thinking to the sort that percolates in the
March 30, 2015
For about a century, beginning in the early 1800s, the Balkan peninsula (previously ruled as a single land by the Ottomans) was broken into a number of smaller states that did not get along.
March 30, 2015
It seems not a week goes by without another report of cyber criminals making off with hordes of stolen data.