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BARCELONA -- The time where everyone can be off the grid is near. A dispatch from this year's Mobile World Congress show.

March 1, 2013 3:06am | By Jennifer Riggins

North Korea has opened a sliver of access to mobile Internet within the country.

2 | February 22, 2013 11:00am | By Kirsten Korosec

African startups were rewarded for coming up with innovative technological solution to local challenges.

February 21, 2013 10:56am | By Tyler Falk

Does China have the resources and talent to become the next hotspot for innovation, research and development?

6 | February 20, 2013 11:00am | By Charlie Osborne

In the 19th century, Horace Greeley advised men to head west. Jim Rogers' response? "Go East, young woman."

3 | February 19, 2013 3:00am | By Claire Lambrecht

BARCELONA -- And why the Spanish youth aren't either. After all, 60 percent of those 30 and under are unemployed. Maybe it's just not in the Spanish blood.

80 | February 18, 2013 3:04am | By Jennifer Riggins

For the first time since the promising startup shuttered last fall, Loosecubes CEO Campbell McKellar talks about the company that changed the face of shared workspaces.

12 | February 18, 2013 3:00am | By Audrey Quinn

Will we see innovation and investment in 3D printing begin to slide?

8 | February 15, 2013 2:35am | By Charlie Osborne

While an IPO puts firms in a better position to innovate, other priorities take hold.

2 | February 14, 2013 4:23am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

Sailthru, a data analytics start-up that examines consumer behavior to predict your interests, thinks that you'll get more by seeing less of what you don't want. Big investors agree.

10 | February 12, 2013 5:02pm | By David Worthington

BIHAR -- How a bank loan could end generations of prostitution in an Indian town.

1 | February 11, 2013 12:00am | By Betwa Sharma

REYKJAVIK -- Artist-politician Jon Gnarr emerges as the Icelandic capital's unlikely hero.

8 | February 7, 2013 3:00am | By Shannon Smith

The electric car infrastructure company, whose founder envisioned a network of battery-swapping stations, is turning its attention toward two core markets.

5 | February 6, 2013 2:29pm | By Kirsten Korosec

One of the largest venture capital backers of cleantech has stopped raising a new fund because a lack of interest.

3 | February 6, 2013 12:20pm | By Kirsten Korosec

A new white paper commissioned by the American Institute of Architects points out the advantages of raising money from "the crowd" to finance bridges, skyscrapers, and other large projects.

3 | February 5, 2013 6:33am | By Reena Jana

An Alaskan brewery will save thousands using a beer-making byproduct to power its operations.

4 | February 4, 2013 2:49pm | By Tyler Falk

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about cybersecurity concerns.

February 4, 2013 12:55am | By Charlie Osborne

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has given the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda carte blanche to ignore U.S. intellectual property rights as reparations for a longstanding trade dispute.

25 | January 30, 2013 8:07pm | By David Worthington

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about technology's place within education.

1 | January 30, 2013 12:41am | By Charlie Osborne

New study from HfS Research and KPMG International finds few plans to cut back on outsourcing any time soon; more IT, finance and HR to be contracted out.

37 | January 28, 2013 9:10am | By Joe McKendrick