Mobile Payment in Tencent China

Whoever wins in mobile wins the market for the next decade. This is a generally held belief by internet companies in China. With many potential fights to pick up, mobile payment has become the battleground. Tencent, one of China’s biggest […]

The New York Times is Not a Paper: The Face-off with Twit/Book

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Digitization and democratization of information are generally viewed as benefiting the public good, even if private incumbent enterprises are disrupted or dismantled in the process. Does journalism present a potential counterexample where both are harmed? And what can one of the world’s leading news organizations do about it?

Data-Driven Dress Dealing

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Retailers have historically made decisions based on intuition, but what happens when companies like EDITED begin leveraging Big Data to track runway trends, analyze product movement, and recommend pricing and promotions?