From Brainstorm: Our new $1 million prize, and more

The Legatum Fortune Technology Prize will encourage business to tackle poverty through technology. At Brainstorm Tech, the discussion ranged from Apple to the next XO laptop, and from changing tech standards to changing the world. NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Fortune this week announced the Legatum Fortune Technology Prize, an annual $1 million award intended to reward for-profit efforts to provide products and services to the poor through the use of technology. The announcement of the prize was for me the high point of an amazing three days at our Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., where many of the world's top techies gathered to network, exchange insights, and engage in some spirited debate. We launched the Brainstorm conference series in Aspen in 2001, and this year we made its longtime tech connection... [read full story]