Ecosystems

Alexa’s Expanding And Advancing Ecosystem
Alexa’s Expanding And Advancing Ecosystem
November 29, 2017  |  Ecosystems

Amazon seems to have a lot to be merry about this holiday season. As of holiday 2017, three-quarters of all Americans are Prime members, and Amazon could...

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Professional Driving’s Coming Automation Crisis
Professional Driving’s Coming Automation Crisis
November 08, 2017  |  Ecosystems

As of today, the trucking industry is facing a severe shortage of workers. The digital economy has created a boom in the shipping industry, and...

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The Pixel And The Google Ecosystem
The Pixel And The Google Ecosystem
October 18, 2017  |  Ecosystems

The Pixel 2 isn’t Google’s first smartphone. It’s not even really technically its second phone — there were the Nexus devices of the past, and in...

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Dolphin Hacking And The Invisible Threats To Connected Commerce Economy
Dolphin Hacking And The Invisible Threats To Connected Commerce Economy
October 05, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

In a world where one of the three big credit bureaus can be hacked — and, as an American adult, one’s most sensitive financial information is...

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Apple’s $48B Dent In The Supplier Universe
Apple’s $48B Dent In The Supplier Universe
September 28, 2017  |  Ecosystems

Call it the “X Factor.” Apple’s X Factor, to be precise. And that Factor has taken a bit of a toll on the Apple ecosystem,...

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The Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
The Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
June 14, 2017  |  Apple

HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne: fine-tuned, exclusive and...

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Facebook’s Content Conundrum
Facebook’s Content Conundrum
May 24, 2017  |  Social Commerce

In 1942, the U.S. Office of War Information created a marketing slogan that has since become a favored colloquialism for the importance of secrecy: Loose Lips...

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Amazon’s Exponentially Expanding Ambitions
Amazon’s Exponentially Expanding Ambitions
March 29, 2017  |  Amazon

When Amazon launched a little over 20 years ago, it might have been easy to write off as a footnote in internet history in the...

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Self-Driving Cars Going Into High Gear
Self-Driving Cars Going Into High Gear
March 08, 2017  |  Innovation

As recently as a year ago, self-driving cars were basically science fiction. Sure, there were early buzzings that Apple or Google were going to build...

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