Innovation

Netflix is waving around $100,000 dollars in prize money for people with the best ideas to tune up and improve Netflix's data cloud. Netflix cloud systems director of architecture Alex Cockcroft joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to talk through the challenges of managing the company's remote data.

Seems like every time you turn on the news, there's some new danger to our health or our financial well-being.

The Technology Innovation Program helped fund a lot of innovations, but now the program has been eliminated.

Amid cries of a "lost decade" and economic stagnation, the real Japan looks and feels much different.

Commentator Vijay Vaitheeswaran says America's culture of creativity and innovation beats out China's state-run capitalism.

Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner on one scientifically-proven way that helps women embrace risk.

Over the past 30 years, digital technologies have up-ended all corners of business and industry, making some obsolete and inventing new ones all together. Here's the view from those of us who grew up digital.

This final note today. A true story: I was on my way home last night, listening to my public radio station, when the local All Things Considered...

Two criticisms I heard about the iPad were that you couldn't monkey around with it and develop your own software and that you can't send text...

Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on patent reform. The weeds are tall on this one. If you're not a lawyer, and I'm not,...