It’s time to take the “e” out of e-commerce. We added that vowel to explain the digital mediation of buying and selling, some 20 years ago. It seemed so cool and so novel that governments granted e-commerce a short-term tax exemption. The idea: spur this groovy new way of doing business. Flash forward to the [...]
Tags: Amazon, digital, e-commerce, newspapers
November 12 2012
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November 7 2012
Major events that occur in the physical world like Hurricane Sandy often remind me of how far we have come as a society in the great analog-to-digital conversion of our times. While weather forecasting and a significant amount of civil preparedness and communication rely on the internet, the devastating impact of the storm is a [...]
Tags: Amazon, digital, Hurricane, Sandy, storm
Tags: Amazon, digital, Hurricane, Sandy, storm
April 19 2012
Worrying about business models used to be the preserve of strategy gurus and management consultants. Nowadays, even journalists are in on the act. Not because they suddenly think business models are sexy but because it has become a matter of life and death for their trade, particularly in the West. Every new monthly report on [...]
Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, digital, Facebook, journalism
Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, digital, Facebook, journalism
