Business / Technology
Monocolumn
Friday 1 February
Europe’s comfort zone
The ease of getting projects off the ground in Berlin might start to attract economic dead weight.
Friday 1 February
The ease of getting projects off the ground in Berlin might start to attract economic dead weight.
Friday 14 December
Cities are in competition over many things, whether it’s attracting business or edging into the top spot of a quality of life ranking. It’s the urban age, where cities rather than countries face-off for investment, tourism…
A young Swiss electronics company has a plan to corner the low-tech market with a range of no-fuss, well-made products that just do the job.
Kyoto is the traditional home of Japanese artisans who make highly detailed ceramics and perfectly woven silks. That same set of skills has also helped it become the country’s hi-tech heartland.
Thanks to its excellent universities, international transport links and super bright, skilled workforce, this former mining city in Germany’s Ruhr valley has been transformed into a hive for hi-tech firms.
It’s done a good job getting everyday essentials into our homes, hands and driveways but it would like to do so much more. Faced with stiff competition from China, South Korea sees a future for itself as a centre for hi…
Wednesday 27 February
Shopping for children is tricky enough and hi-tech toys aren't making it easier.
Estonia has a brand image as a modern hi-tech nation, but today it’s dealing with some old-fashioned troubling issues. In his private offices at Stenbock House in the capital Tallinn, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to…
From hi-tech US military labs to the traditional textile mills of northern Italy, wool pioneers are forging new fabrics that could change the procurement practices of the world’s frontline forces. We investigate how a…
Thursday 4 October
How often do you show up for a meeting in unfamiliar territory and are suddenly slammed with an extreme case of office envy?
In 1991, impoverished Estonia broke free from the old Soviet Union. Today it is Europe’s fastest-growing economy. No surprise then that the nation has just voted back into power the coalition government which has overseen…
Thursday 22 March
In a cosy wine bar in San Francisco I had a romantic moment with a senior executive at one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Tuesday 25 September
Live-blogging isn’t terribly new to journalism. The minute-by-minute format has been a feature of reporting via the web for over a decade, used in force by tech websites and then fully incorporated by most, if not all,…
Monday 7 June
Steve Jobs is a showman. Instead of verbose PowerPoint slides – industry standard in the tech world – his presentations are known for screens with so few words on them that they’re almost terse.
We throw the spotlight on the sartorial style of Libya's Saif al-Gaddafi and Somaliland's hi-tech elections.
While post-industrial towns such as Detroit languish in a ‘rust belt’, Pittsburgh is bucking the trend, teeing itself up as a major hi-tech hub and an alternative to California’s Silicon Valley. Monocle visits its thriving…
The regions, sectors, markets and companies to watch, including Australian wool, Venezuelan rum and Palestinian tech entrepreneurs.
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