Tag: business
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It’s official: 2009 was the worst year for the record labels in a decade. So was 2008, and before that 2007 and 2006. In fact, industry revenues have been declining… more ›
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Five-year-old company is first challenger to loosen Alibaba and JD. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-pinduoduo-beat-alibaba-to-become-chinas-top-shopping-site-11616232601 more ›
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The pandemic has thrown the future of work into flux. This is especially true in tech, an industry notoriously concentrated in several expensive U.S. cities. But as Covid-19 takes a… more ›
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This is my first collaborative essay, and my collaborator is someone I’ve been following for a while: Ben Tossell. Ben is the founder of Makerpad, a website that teaches anyone… more ›
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Amazon Live is a prominent example of how interactive video shopping, popularized by TV networks like QVC, has moved online. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/business/amazon-ecommerce-livestreaming.html more ›
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Amazon is expanding an existing program that gamifies warehouse work to encourage its fulfillment center employees to improve their efficiency and compete against others for digital rewards like virtual pets,… more ›
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High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it/ more ›
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The 21st-century economy has been a two-decade series of punches in the gut. The century began in economic triumphalism in the United States, with a sense that business cycles had… more ›
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The end of WWI gave rise to the Roaring ’20s, a time of economic rebound and recovery. Future release from Covid-19 restrictions will likely invite us to gather again in… more ›
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Zapier CEO Wade Foster avoids thinking about fundraising as much as possible. Profitable for years, his startup, which provides automation tools that connect apps together, gets plenty of interest from… more ›