Uber, LinkedIn and Airbnb take different approaches to integrating data into their businesses, but they all agree that data is a crucial signal of whether their products and services are serving… Read more »
Services like Airbnb, Lyft and others that are part of the rapidly-expanding “sharing economy” rely on trust for their peer-to-peer approach to work — but can they maintain that as they… Read more »
What Uber calls “surge pricing” makes a lot of sense from a rational, economic point of view — but when it is used during disasters like the floods in Toronto, it… Read more »
We’re used to how the social web has disrupted media, but that same wave is moving through other industries, driven by startups like Airbnb, Coursera and Uber — and while regulators… Read more »