Suvarchala Narayanan

The gig economy — and the growing group of digital nomads within it — requires a wider variety of new products and services than businesses and governments are currently prepared to deliver. See also “Digital Nomads."

Valentin Stalf, chief executive of German financial-services startup N26, wants banking to be like music downloading.

What do feature phones, regional newspapers, and smartphones have in common? They’re all vehicles for the country’s remarkable move to digital broadband.