August 6, 2010 11:28 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte said that in two years the company has managed to rebuff one of the biggest critiques of his effort–the idea that you can’t just give a kid a laptop connected to the Internet and walk [...]

June 8, 2010 9:01 PM PDT
by Ina Fried

The massive earthquake in Haiti in January destroyed a third or more of the country’s banks and ATMs, but even before the quake fewer than 1 in 10 Haitians had ever used a traditional bank.

Aiming to broaden access to financial institutions and aid in [...]