AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?
An exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.
Read moreAn exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.
Read moreAmazon has a long and sordid history of stealing the designs of companies that sell on its platform– and making their products themselves, to be sold at a lower price. One company decided to troll them in response.
Read moreThe platform economy dominates the economy today. This book offers numerous valuable lessons for how we can think about the architecture of systems in public infrastructure.
Read moreCan autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.
Read moreDigital piracy has made a comeback in recent years as the market for content streaming becomes more crowded and more expensive, leading to serious questions about the long-term sustainability of the sector.
Read moreLong a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?
Read moreOn a recent trip back to my hometown, I poked around the eastern suburbs, visiting a friend who had just
Read moreThis morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for
Read moreI guess this is it. The Amazon, the globe’s largest carbon sink, is burning, the yield curve has inverted, there
Read moreThe water cooler topic du jour in Detroit is the grumbling about why Amazon won’t move here because the region
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