Startups around the world are tackling some of the planet’s most pressing problems.

Asheville depends heavily on tourism for its income. With remote work now gaining wider acceptance, one long-term effect may be regions becoming more open to new types of business -- such as high tech.

Dixie cups were like the Zoom of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, which helped the product become a household name.

Getaround, a car sharing start-up, started the year by laying off 150 employees and scaling back some operations after it spent too much on a rapid expansion. Two months later, with the spread of the coronavirus, business got even worse. The company laid off another 100 employees, asked those who remained to volunteer for pay cuts, obtained a government loan of $5 million to $10 million and battled bankruptcy rumors.

Japan has long been hailed as one of the world’s most developed nations. But when it comes to innovation, things are less rosy. Why is it stifling its start-ups?

There are tons of gadgets to help golfers develop the perfect swing, but it’s hard to apply the same unobtrusive training tools to other sports. Evo One, though, is the counterpoint — it's a Kickstarter project that puts a tiny coach inside a basketball to help players improve their game.

So, you started an app for collaborative photo albums. You tried to tell us it was different because it was private, or centered around events or locations, or automatically identified friends’ faces.

Kevin O’ Connor, the founder of DoubleClick, which sold to Google for $3.1 billion, is putting that money to use. Since leaving DoubleClick, O’Connor founded a startup called FindTheBest. FindTheBest aims to help consumers discover and learn about the best electronics products out there.

Silicon Valley gets all the attention when it comes to tech innovation, but there are some big-name companies worth recognizing that come from, yes we’ll say it, “across the pond.”

Young companies die by the hundreds in Silicon Valley, but you would hardly know it by reading your local blog. Flowtab, now a shuttered product, did something following its demise that I’ve never seen before — released a death chronicle of sorts. Their timeline and notes showcase the mistakes that the company made during its short life.

Fingerprint readers. Face Unlock. Retinal scanners. They're all no better than your average password, at least the way Dr. Karl Martin sees it. "Your face, your iris — they're all physical features that can be stolen, that you leave everywhere."

The holiday weekend is long over for most of us, which means it’s back to the grind – and likely back to getting less than a desirable amount of sleep. While I’m sure most of those reading this article took advantage of the holiday weekend to catch up on sleep, by now you’ve stayed up too late – and woken up too early, missing critical hours of sleep to be most effective at work and at home. But how do you know just how much that lack of sleep is affecting your life?

On June 21st, 2013, 22-year-old Matthew Cordle was out "drinking very heavily" with friends when he decided to get behind the wheel. He blacked out while driving on the highway and crossed into the opposite lane, colliding with another car head on. The accident killed a 62-year-old veteran and photographer named Vincent Kanzani, and Mr. Cordle didn’t take responsibility for his death–until now.

“Starting a venture is hard — actually, if people knew how hard, they wouldn’t do it — but starting a hardware venture is three times as hard,” said angel investor and Txtr CEO Christophe Maire at the second Hardware Berlin event held at The WYE.

Another company is claiming to have cracked the mysteries of wireless charging, with an outfit called Ossia saying that using the 2.4 GHz band, it can recharge devices over-the-air at distances of up to 10 metres.

Far from being the measure of disgrace it once was, failure now seems to be a sort of badge of honor. But underlying many popular Silicon Valley failure clichés is entrepreneurs’ belief that “starting companies these days is akin to doing research in the past” — as if we don’t need research when the opportunity to fail is so readily available.

One way to really understand someone is to look at the books on their bookshelf. Here's a picture of mine and it's a picture of my soul.

Many restaurant chains dream of becoming a national name. Here's why Potbelly Sandwich's IPO will kick off growth that will turn the chain into the next great American brand.

Compressed air batteries have long promised truly clean energy storage, but they haven't scaled large enough in recent years to be viable companions to renewable power sources.

Technology is advancing so rapidly that most of today’s industry leaders will slip into oblivion by the end of this decade. The only companies that will survive are those that invest heavily in research — and take big risks. Nothing illustrates the difference between companies better than Facebook and Google.