Jennifer L. Schenker

Recent Articles by Jennifer L. Schenker

September 2, 2010

Tech Pioneers of 2011: The Brightest Ideas on the Planet

Meet 31 innovative startups selected by the World Economic Forum for their potential impact on technology, health, the environment, and human welfare

December 3, 2009

Tech Pioneers of 2010: Future Innovation Leaders

The annual Tech Pioneers award from the World Economic Forum highlights 26 startups this year with revolutionary breakthroughs in tech, mobile, health care, and energy

January 5, 2009

WPP's Digital Push

Walking around in a black T-shirt and jeans at a beach resort near Athens, Sir Martin Sorrell looks impatient. Then again, this is no vacation. The chief executive of ...

December 3, 2008

TraceTracker Tracks Food Safety on the Net

Talk about an image problem. For weeks, newspapers around the world have carried stories about dairy-poisoned babies—at least six have died, and 300,000 have been ...

December 2, 2008

Cows to Kilowatts: A Bounty from Waste

It's a problem facing many African cities: In Ibadan, the largest city in southwestern Nigeria, abattoirs routinely pour untreated animal waste into local rivers and ...

December 2, 2008

Qifang: College Loans for the Chinese Masses

Fifty million: That's how many young Chinese cannot afford to go to college, a huge underclass that risks being locked out of the economic boom transforming China. ...

December 2, 2008

MPedigree's Rx for Counterfeit Drugs

In October, Belgian customs officials confiscated 2 million counterfeit pills, one of the biggest such seizures ever made in Europe. The seized drugs, which were ...

December 2, 2008

Tech Leaders of Tomorrow

The group of 20 young, fresh-faced computer programmers in jeans and polo shirts embossed with the company logo could have been with any Silicon Valley startup. But ...

December 2, 2008

E-Commerce for Indians, on Their Cell Phones

A decade has passed since telecom operators and handset makers first tried to get Europeans excited about mobile-phone commerce by demonstrating it was possible to buy...

December 2, 2008

Intelligent Medicine: Proteus' Very Smart Pills

"Being digital" is about to take on a whole new meaning. The phrase was popularized by a prescient book of the same name written by computer guru Nicholas Negroponte, ...