Six years ago, "unicorn" became the name for startup tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. At the time, only 39 companies had earned the title. Since then, the club has grown to 484 members.
Modeled on TV's Shark Tank, entrepreneurs at a Pitch-a-Kid event in Austin, Texas, had 5 minutes to sell their ideas to a panel of third- through 12-graders and answer their no-holds-barred questions.
Las Vegas is known for its casinos, but one group is hoping the city will become famous for another glistening industry: water technology. Can the city become “the Silicon Valley of Water"?
Convenience is at an all-time premium — and a lot of smartphone apps promise to make many of the things we do every day easier. In a time-crunch or sheer laziness, how far will the apps take us?
Friction between close business partners is the reason many startups fail. But increasingly in Silicon Valley, co-founders of companies are turning to therapists before things go south.
Some entrepreneurs are leaving the high tech hot spots of San Francisco, New York and the Silicon Valley for greener pastures in a place that actually has greener pastures: Lincoln, Neb.
The hack of insurer Anthem is one in a string of costly cyberattacks worldwide. In Silicon Valley and beyond, startups are taking very different approaches to helping companies outsmart the attackers.
