The Best Camera is the One That’s With You
As smartphone cameras become more advanced, they have replaced the need for consumer-grade, and soon, professional-grade, digital cameras.
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The Rise of the Smartphone Ecosystem and Kodak’s Fall
A brief history of photography, The basic concepts of photography can be traced back to China, 5th century B.C. where it was discovered that an upside-down image is formed on the opposite wall when viewed through a “pinhole”. In the 4th […]
Zillow’s Big Bet: digitizing the home buying and selling process
Bolstered by access to years of rich housing data, Zillow launches Instant Offer, a new home buying and selling program that threatens to disrupt the opaque and lengthy agent-based process.
The Battle to Book and Host Travelers Continues to be Changed by Digital Innovation
Digital disruption has had a huge impact on the hospitality industry. Companies like Airbnb and Priceline have done a great job of creating digital platforms and applying pressure to traditional hotels, but hotels are fighting back with consolidation and differentiation.
How Slack Helps Employers Give Employees Some Slack on Workforce Communications
Slack is a cloud-based, workplace collaboration platform breaking traditional assumptions of how people communicate.
Rent the Runway and the Future of Retail
Rent the Runway continues to challenge the need of brick-and-mortar retail stores by providing a compelling and accessible online platform to rent high-end women’s fashion for work, evening, and any event in between.
onX maps: A GPS app for hunters
onX is a one-sided platform for outdoor enthusiasts. It combines GPS technology with public records to provide data in an intuitive, integrated, and visually rich format.
Fitbit Care: Making Health a Platform
When a consumer electronics company needed to pivot, it turned into a platform healthcare company.
TATERU: Bringing Digital Innovation to Japanese Real Estate
TATERU uses a web-based application to allow landlords to source, acquire, and develop apartment buildings all over Japan, and to integrate IoT capabilities into their operations.
Modernizing Millions of Mom-and-pop Stores in China – Alibaba’s LST platform
While Alibaba may be best known for its B2C and C2C ecommerce platforms (Tmall and Taobao), it recently developed a massive B2B platform modernizing millions of mom and pop convenience stores in China. The Challenge Mom-and-pop stores: In China, offline […]