Tag: business models
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The dominance of a small number of big companies over the global food chain is increasing, aided by the rising use of “big data” and artificial intelligence, new research has… more ›
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One day in March 2020, just as New York City was sliding into lockdown, Devon Turnbull got a cryptic text message from his friend Virgil Abloh. “I didn’t even get… more ›
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One of the biggest frustrations of text-to-image generation AI models is that they feel like a black box. We know they were trained on images pulled from the web, but… more ›
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Most obviously, we’re discussing two very distinct and seemingly competing media environments. For creators, there’s the bottom-up, democratized access to tools, enabling massive amounts of content to be made and syndicated frictionlessly. In… more ›
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Conflict minerals have fueled and continue to help sustain armed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), linking them to the deadliest conflict globally since World War II. The… more ›
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Web3-native creators like Daniel represent the vanguard of a new model for the creator economy. We’ve written extensively about how networks and platforms can distribute user ownership through tokens in order to… more ›
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In September 2021, when China banned all cryptocurrency-related activity, it reshaped an industry for which it had provided a haven. Miners scrambled into crypto-friendly Kazakhstan, propelling the country into world’s second-biggest Bitcoin production… more ›
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Digital wallets, for the uninitiated, are typically software-based online services that enable people to carry out electronic transactions with other people and businesses — some of the most popular wallets… more ›
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Rapper and designer Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, says he’s done with his corporate partners and plans to branch out solo. “It’s time for me to go it… more ›
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Freeports and special economic zones (SEZs) are established policy tools to attract foreign investment at specific locations, based on the de-coupling of sovereignty and territory. As a result, they emerged… more ›