Mexican entrepreneurs with a background in mechanical engineering and passion for innovation leads him to vehemently race towards solutions in alternative mobility.
We constantly see social networking apps being funded in the news, but what real social and economic progress have we seen from social media and what industries are going to drive this progress in the future?
We’re still talking about the same handful of challenges and issues in mobile development which implies that very little, if anything, has changed where it matters—on the ground. Have we really made so little progress?
Technologies once thought as science fiction, like Rosie from the Jetsons, have become possible and being aware of the realities and prepared for the opportunities means constantly redefining yourself.
Two women entrepreneurs bring design-thinking to Tanzania creating solar-powered mobile phone charging stations that are changing the way people think about accessing electricity in off-grid communities.
Indigenous tree—never before used for commercial purposes—is providing a Kenyan startup with the means to create an agricultural revolution in East Africa.
A common belief is that it is only the young who can innovate. But we may be better off motivating and empowering older workers. They are the ones who are best equipped to solve the big problems.
What would it take to identify promising innovations faster, more often, and with the full might of public and private partners? That is the challenge before us.
With feed prices accounting for up to 70 percent of Nigerian chicken farmers' overhead, a simple move to UNFIRE feed can mean a 35 percent reduction in overall costs.
Russian startup Plastica recycles 10 percent of all plastic waste in the million-person city of Volgograd, Russia, where it is based, and turns that plastic into enough bricks, paving tiles, and roof tiles for four homes per month.
No matter what the jobs of the future are, they will surely require greater skill and education, since robots will be able to do all the grunt work like manufacturing our goods and driving our cars.
Watch this interview with Saudi Prince, Fahad F Saud, as he ebbs and flows between what Disney got wrong about being a prince, to the personal struggles of entrepreneurship and the power of tech to catalyze revolutions in his roll as Head of U.S. Arab Operations for Facebook.
He sold a company for $8.5 Billion dollars, he has founded six different silicon valley startups, and today, he is running one of the largest mobile companies in Asia. In this interview we explore failures, family, balance, divorce, multinationals, and the nuances of running tech companies across Asia.
Hear how Greenlink builds and leases solar-powered computer labs for off-grid schools in Tanzania, where 96 percent of rural classrooms lack electricity.
Indians are fed up with government inaction and corruption. They want accountability, better education for their children, improved health care, and economic prosperity. And they want change now.
There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Fixing it will be painful, but it should be fixed before it gets any worse.