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Japan’s First ‘Regulatory Sandboxes’ Could Open Next Spring

Suspending rules in selected zones aims to free innovators and entrepreneurs. TOKYO — Japan is looking to create so-called regulatory sandboxes in three locales as soon as next spring to test technologies such as self-driving cars and [...]

Alibaba founder Jack Ma says "the world will experience far more pain than happiness" in the next 30 years.

Jack Ma: In 30 Years, The Best CEO Could Be A Robot

Even top tech executives think they could be replaced by robots. Sherisse Pham reports: Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma, the man Fortune Magazine just named one of the world’s great leaders, predicts that technology will make many CEOs [...]

Japan Startups Seeing Cash but Few Innovators

Yuri Kageyama reports: Japan Inc., where companies with roots going back decades, if not centuries, have long dominated, is finally warming up to startups. Major banks and venture capitalists are keen to tap into faster growth by investing in [...]

It’s Time to Negotiate a New Economic Relationship with China

Simon Lester and Huan Zhu write: When China completed its 15-year accession process and joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, it was a rising power, but still clearly a developing country. Its GDP per capita was $3,227,1 and its share [...]

Ride to Nowhere: Uber President Abruptly Quits, Deepening Turmoil

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Ride services company Uber Technologies Inc. has been thrust deeper into turmoil with the departure of company President Jeff Jones, a marketing expert hired to help soften its often abrasive image. Jones quit less than [...]

[VIDEO] New Camera-Equipped Pocket Drones Make Spying Easier Than Ever

Giuseppe Macri writes: The Drone User Group Network unveiled the latest — and smallest — in drone technology at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday night, the Pocket Drone, which surpassed its Kickstarter funding goal by more than [...]