Tag: Competition

January 4, 2017

Our world is already starting to look like the scenarios imagined by science-fiction writers. Google just announced that the company is spinning off a separate self-driving car entity called Waymo, meanwhile Amazon is a robotics powerhouse, experimenting with drone-based delivery […]

October 20, 2016

When you go to your local grocery store do you notice how many kinds of the same products there are? How about the fact that many cars now look the same? This new shopper reality is called commoditization. There isn’t […]

October 4, 2016

As soon as you open up the Marketplace – there’s a new icon at the bottom of the Facebook app – you’ll see various photos of items people near you have listed. In case a random selection of people’s junk […]

April 8, 2016

Facebook has long been trying to catch up YouTube as a source for videos, but it’s faced one big problem: you could only see videos shared on your News Feed or individual pages. The company is now changing that by finally […]

March 28, 2016

Image Credits: digitalistmag.com The IoT, an interconnected ecosystem of internet-enabled objects—networks, devices, sensors, microprocessors, machines, data hubs, artificial intelligence software and analytics programs—already has many applications in the financial services industry. Whether it’s tracking driving habits for the purpose of […]

November 20, 2015

With mobile payment platforms slowly but steadily gaining traction — and trust — with consumers, another platform is due to hit the market soon, this time coming from South Korean consumer electronics giant LG. The company is planning to unveil […]

July 24, 2015

Flouting rules for performance-enhancing drugs has felled some of the biggest names in sports. Now that list could include competitive video game players like Mr. Friesen, after he boasted that he, his teammates and other professional gamers took prescription drugs […]