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10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy

10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
August 27, 2025  |  Connected Economy

In 2016, David Evans and Richard Schmalensee published the Harvard Business School Press book, Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms. The book explained what...

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Modern Healthcare Marketplaces Use Data and Digital to Match Provider and Patient Demand
Modern Healthcare Marketplaces Use Data and Digital to Match Provider and Patient Demand
December 04, 2023  |  Matchmakers

The healthcare industry is a massive, fragmented and — above all — necessary force in American life. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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AI 1.0 Is Already Accelerating Industry 4.0’s Innovation Pace
AI 1.0 Is Already Accelerating Industry 4.0’s Innovation Pace
December 01, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving industry 4.0 a shot in the arm.  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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What Lighting a Fire Tells Us About Igniting Threads and the Billionaires’ New City
What Lighting a Fire Tells Us About Igniting Threads and the Billionaires’ New City
October 31, 2023  |  David S. Evans

It never hurts to brush up on basic skills, like how to make a roaring campfire in the woods before taking that next backpacking trip. How...

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The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
October 04, 2019  |  Business

We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us...

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How Digital Platforms Are Revolutionizing The $100B Flower Biz
How Digital Platforms Are Revolutionizing The $100B Flower Biz
September 06, 2019  |  B2B Payments

There are worse ways to start a business than what happened when John Tabis was getting direct-to-consumer and subscription flower operation The Bouqs off the ground....

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Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That
Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That
August 06, 2019  |  Digital Payments

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal...

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Vesicash Uses Escrow To Ignite eCommerce In Africa
Vesicash Uses Escrow To Ignite eCommerce In Africa
July 29, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The common view about Africa – once found in recent PYMNTS coverage – is that the vast, varied and massively populated continent represents the next frontier for eCommerce....

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Mapping The Maps For Self-Driving Cars (And Drones)
Mapping The Maps For Self-Driving Cars (And Drones)
June 13, 2019  |  Innovation

If one doesn’t know where they’re going, sang one Beatle, any road will get them there — but not easily or efficiently. In an age...

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