IN 2016, 22-year-old Charles Lim established his own company Veer Immersive Technologies, Inc. (Veer), dismissing a possible corporate career in line with his background in computer science.

WHY AREN’T PEOPLE starting more start-ups? That might seem like a weird question to ask, in an age when Silicon Valley ventures are hot commodities and money and talent is flooding into machine learning companies. But in fact, Americans don’t start businesses like they used to.

WHEN HEAD-HUNTING and executive search firm Manila Recruitment first rented out office spaces by ASPACE in Makati City in 2013, it started out with a “plug and play” concept— incorporating designs and work stations based on their immediate needs.

FROM ABOUT THE EARLY 1970s to the mid-1980s, both the Philippines and South Korea were under brutal authoritarian regimes. Filipinos ousted the dictator Ferdinand Marcos via people power in February 1986, which coincidentally was the watershed event that inspired South Koreans to remove their own despotic leader.

WITH THE GROWING demand for data scientists in today’s time of big data, machine learning, among others, and demand pegged to continue to outgrow supply (as said by McKinsey & Co.), two educational institutions in the Philippines have kick-started their own data science graduate programs.

EARLY in Warren Buffett’s life, his father failed to get hired at the family grocery store during the Great Depression. Without a job, and without any money after a run on the banks, the family of four ran up a tab of grocery bills at the store to put food on the table, and even then, his mother sometimes skipped meals. Leila Buffett, beset by stress and with a mind likely impacted by linotype fumes she inhaled as a child, would often berate her two small children.

YOUNG, RICH and surrounded by high-end toys.

DOMINO’S KNOWS IT — IHOP, McDonald’s and Panera are catching on.

THE FAMOUS BRAND is using a 21^st century workshop to speed its rebound from sparkly oblivion.

ONE BY ONE, publishers around the world are shutting down as newspaper sales continue to decline. Amid this gloomy headline, is the print industry likewise seeing its impending demise?

FILTERED SELFIES ‘liked’ a thousand times online. Tutorial videos watched a million times. An opinion written in less than a 280-character limit that goes viral. Behind these posts that proliferate across social media platforms everyday are content creators that continue to attract a growing number of audiences online.

IT’S THE FIRST DAY of class at Instagram. Students check in at two security desks and sign non-disclosure agreements before heading up to the photo-sharing app’s Manhattan offices. The 20 or so guests, almost entirely women, stride past the cluttered workstations of Facebook, Inc. engineers and into a conference room.