A look at the Salesforce founder Marc Benioff’s efforts at philanthropy – the story refers to a description of him as a “clarifying agent” of our times – in that he demonstrates both the impact and the limits of what the “good billionaire” can do.
A look at the travails at Facebook’s proposed alternative financial system.
This article on the banal topic of toothbrushes proves illuminating on the subject of consumer goods pricing, socio-economic factors in public health outcomes, and the sometimes blurry lines between scientific research and PR.
A look at the scale of the logistics behind home delivery and how it is changing the way we live.
A look at Lesotho’s cannabis farming industry.
A look at the town of Oulu in Finland, a boomtown at the time of Nokia’s zenith, but arguably all the better since the company’s fortunes faded from its position as the preeminent mobile telecommunications company.
A piece suggesting Edison’s great skill was not so much in invention as in optimisation and a structured approach to research and development.
Delving into the supply chain of a commodity product on Amazon finds a surprisingly complex supply chain.
A start up that began in the early stages of of peer to peer sharing by spotting compromising files that were accidentally being shared on LimeWire, and ended up in internal recriminations, and an FBI raid on their headquarters.
A story that compares Bezos to other titans of industry finds his ambitions so much broader that his company has become “the shared national infrastructure”.