Tag: business models
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As Amazon-type e-commerce—personified in Jumia—flounders, African entrepreneurs are finding ways to sell online that combine how people shop in malls with the convenience of retail corner shops, the shops that… more ›
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One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto is that it allowed for the creation of a toy financial system. There was already a regular financial system, a set… more ›
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We’ll see thousands of kinds of AI driven businesses in the coming years doing things totally impossible with regular code. Expect to see musical hit generators, on the fly video… more ›
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When NFT (non-fungible token) sales surged in the spring of 2021, the art world held its breath for a digital culture shift. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/nft-artist-royalties-under-threat more ›
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Globalization is not the only—or even the real—story of the global economy over the past four decades. In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, Shannon K. O’Neil shows that the… more ›
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But there is a reason we’ve taken a step back at Stability AI and chose not to release version 1.5 as quickly as we released earlier checkpoints. https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai more ›
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The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and their doomsday scenarios of machines going rogue and destroying… more ›
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When we built the Google Home app nearly 10 years ago, our average user had fewer than three devices. Now the average US household has 25 connected devices and it’s… more ›
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Many people still think of Unity as simply a game engine maker, which is a technically accurate description but risks giving people a slanted impression of the company’s business. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/is-unity-still-focused-on-making-games more ›
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Created in late 2021, Critterz incorporates nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency into the Minecraft universe, bringing a “play to earn” model to the best-selling video game of all time. Players… more ›