Tag: business

• Father Doesn’t Know Best: The Unlikely Rise Of Turkey’s E-Commerce Queen

  July 14, 2019

  On a cold winter morning, Hanzade Dogan-Boyner rushes into her office on the fourth floor of the Trump Towers in Istanbul, overlooking the historic city’s skyline. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2019/07/11/father-doesnt-know-best-the-unlikely-rise-of-turkeys-e-commerce-queen/ more ›

• Readers, Families, Users and Mobs

  July 8, 2019

  Theo Wangemann (center), phonograph recording in Edison Laboratory Music Room, circa May 1905. NPS image 29-430-003. (Credit: National Park Service) Who do I think you are? When I sit down… more ›

• The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

  July 8, 2019

  In 2014, Rich Niemann, president and CEO of the Midwestern grocery company Niemann Foods, made the most important phone call of his career. He dialed the Los Angeles office of… more ›

• Instagram users can now buy influencer looks. Eva Chen explains why

  July 8, 2019

  It’s been four years since Eva Chen left magazine publishing to become director of fashion partnerships at Instagram, and now it’s adding a feature Chen wanted even before her tenure… more ›

• Yoox Net-a-Porter CEO: “We sit on a gold mine of data”

  July 8, 2019

  Almost 20 years after founding Yoox as an off-price e-tailer, and four years after a merger with Net-a-Porter that culminated last year with a €2. https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/yoox-net-a-porter-ceo-federico-marchetti-ynap more ›

• Bonsai Brands

  July 2, 2019

  The energy in the DTC sector is undeniable. In just about every vertical we see new businesses taking advantage of the evaporation of friction in launching an ecommerce brand. With… more ›

• Inside the Shifting Plans for Toronto’s Smart City of Tomorrow

  June 26, 2019

  What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city… more ›

• Uber’s Path of Destruction

  June 18, 2019

  Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share… more ›

• Should Spotify Change the Way It Pays Artists?

  June 16, 2019

  British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable… more ›

• What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars?

  June 16, 2019

  Think of the biggest-earning artists on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the usual megastars might come to mind. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/what-is-happening-to-streamings-superstars-845395/ more ›