Technology & Innovation

Ten years ago the “Billboard Hot 100” began to include digital downloads in their chart rankings, yet this model for accessing music already appears to be on the way out, replaced by online streaming music streaming platforms such as Pandora and Spotify. Changing how we measure what is popular reflects the evolving nature of the […]

In April, Dan Price encountered both praise and skepticism as he announced his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, would set a minimum salary of $70,000 for employees. To do so, Price would use part of his own million-dollar-plus pay package as CEO—an idea that came to him after a friend lamented having to […]

Expanding Health Insurance Doesn’t Address Real Problem: High costs Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there has been overwhelming analysis on the impact of the new law, much of it on the cost to small business and families. Conventional wisdom behind the law says that millions of uninsured Americans cannot access health […]

Sampling foods and spices from countries across the globe is something Americans tend to take for granted. When we pick up items like bananas or chocolate or pineapple or fresh-ground peppercorns at the local supermarket, few of us give a second thought about the thousands of miles these treats have travelled to get here—or what […]

Entrepreneurs are vital to a healthy economy. They look for unmet needs in society and then try to fill them with a new good or service. They take risks without any certainty of reward. They push forward new technology. They try things that others might consider unlikely to succeed, and occasionally this results in successes […]