By bringing some Silicon Valley-style innovation to a dusty, through increasingly popular, sector, Neighborly hopes to make supporting local infrastructure projects both cool and profitable.
The unfortunate future is likely to be a consumer technology market that splits along class lines.
The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.
After a week of reporting and writing on booms and busts—everything from the economy of big oil boomtowns to the growth of the mental-health counseling field—Jamie Wiebe considers five of the biggest booms—and five of the biggest busts—of the past year.
Kickstarter and Indiegogo together bring in more than half a billion dollars annually for creators, but a new wave of crowd-funding sites are hoping to correct for some of their flaws.