Instead of slow, incremental change from the business community, we need to fundamentally reorder the entire system. And right now may be the only opportunity. There are periods of creative destruction when an old, dying [...]

Mobile money would transform even more lives in poor countries if regulators got out of the way IN 2007 Safaricom, the biggest mobile operator in Kenya, launched M-PESA, a service that allows money to be [...]

We are in the midst of a great revolution the payments space We are in the midst of a great revolution the payments space: anyone with a phone can now accept credit cards; online-to-offline commerce is allowing [...]

Unique finance system aimed to give kids in impoverished areas a safe place to store their money. The Children’s Development Khazana is a unique banking system exclusively for children. Furthermore, its branches are also staffed by children, [...]

The results have been nothing short of mind-blowing, and the people who are buying in are not who you would think. Sunrun’s Lynne Jurich helped create a new industry–selling solar instead of as an expensive [...]

Parker’s dismissive attitude toward an entrepreneur pitching a new device isn’t unique   When entrepreneur Julia Hu presented her prototype of a vibrating wristband alarm clock to a group Silicon Valley tech heavyweights, their responses [...]

Financial traders have a new toy: Bitcoin, a digital currency variously dismissed as a Ponzi scheme or lauded as the greatest invention since the Internet. Unlike conventional fiat money and other digital currencies, Bitcoin runs [...]

PayPal and Apple are working on alternatives which could be simpler to install   Google and others are promoting Near Field Communication technology, which involves replacing credit cards with phones which can be tapped on a reader [...]

Using Private Capital To Do Public Good   Instead of asking the government to invest its slim budget in innovative programs, what if you could invest in them and get paid back if they save [...]

Hard part: finding the money to push the research further   Researchers at the California Institute of Technology believe they’ve made a breakthrough that could help people with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. Now [...]

Has Tim Schafer changed the gaming industry?   It’s a question I’ve seen on more than a few message boards and Twitter feeds over the past 24 hours, following the Grim Fandango creator’s announcement that [...]

There is a huge need for this type of payments platform.   We measure every last click when it comes to the Web, but there remains a gulf between online and the real world. Yet [...]