Everyone enjoys the voyeuristic thrill of FORBES ASIA’s annual listing of the world’s billionaires, but as an emerging market investor I use the list as a tool to spot what I call Breakout Nations–economies poised to beat expectations, and rivals, over the next five to ten years. Analyzing the list can provide a quick read on an emerging economy.

Medical device companies and financial institutions are hardly known for making waves in social media; the strict regulation of these industries is a deterrent for most.

The digital health technology market will be worth $5.7 billion by 2015, with chronic care, wellness and medication management leading the charge.

Cutting-edge entrepreneurs are stepping up to crunch the vast (and ever-growing) stockpile of information too large for companies to store and analyze in-house.

Wondering about the office of the future? It might take more imagination than you think. "Who says there'll be an office at all?" asks Tom Austin, vice president at Gartner, a Stamford, Conn.-based technology research firm. "Already we work from Starbucks, in the car and at our kids' softball games."