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Will Marketplaces Take Over eCommerce Completely?
Will Marketplaces Take Over eCommerce Completely?
May 08, 2019  |  eCommerce

The world is becoming one big marketplace — even if the marketplace doesn’t always look like one. That’s not some ancient riddle updated for these...

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Freelancer.com CEO: Platforms And The Future Of Product Development
Freelancer.com CEO: Platforms And The Future Of Product Development
April 22, 2019  |  Gig Economy

A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one.  And as Freelancer.com CEO and...

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Can A Digital Platform Make The Grade With Teachers Trying To Buy Homes?
Can A Digital Platform Make The Grade With Teachers Trying To Buy Homes?
April 15, 2019  |  Innovation

Talk with old-timers from the Bay Area – or people approaching old-timey status – and there’s a good chance you’ll hear stories, lamentations and rants...

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Utility Data’s New Identity
Utility Data’s New Identity
April 10, 2019  |  Data

There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a...

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Can Visual Search Help Retailers Find New Sales?
Can Visual Search Help Retailers Find New Sales?
April 09, 2019  |  Retail

Amazon failed Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce, a visual search firm, when it came to the cheesy sweater — the one with, in his words, “little...

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Can Platforms And Payments Solve Restaurants’ 73 Percent Turnover Problem?
Can Platforms And Payments Solve Restaurants’ 73 Percent Turnover Problem?
April 08, 2019  |  Matchmakers

Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73...

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One-Stop Digital Procure-To-Pay For One-Person Shops
One-Stop Digital Procure-To-Pay For One-Person Shops
April 05, 2019  |  Matchmakers

While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a...

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How Platforms Turn Agents Into Digital Real Estate Quarterbacks
How Platforms Turn Agents Into Digital Real Estate Quarterbacks
April 02, 2019  |  Matchmakers

The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between...

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Will Consumers Want To Monetize Their Own Data?
Will Consumers Want To Monetize Their Own Data?
March 18, 2019  |  Data

If headlines are any indication, data breaches have made off with consumers’ most sensitive bits of information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card info...

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