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TrainingPeaks enables coaches to build customizable training programs for their athlete clients, and permits both coach and athlete to track and analyze data online or on mobile devices.
One of the most obstinate businesses to change – both digitally and otherwise – is the luxury goods industry. Years of tradition, in some cases centuries of tradition (read: Hermes, Chanel), have ingrained certain practices and modes of operation that [...]
Internet radio service Pandora has been on a buying spree in the last several years - a costly but necessary move to compete in an online music economy that is undergoing large scale consolidation. Can the company survive independently or [...]
Consumer goods industry has been dominated by big players in the past. Traditional recipe of success was to spend millions of dollars on TV campaign and to secure right shelf space in brick and mortar retail chains. This recipe is [...]
In all-too-typical online fashion, the Internet was abuzz with rage in early 2014 when Facebook announced that users of its mobile Messenger product would soon be forced to download a stand-alone app in order to continue using the service. The [...]
What do shifting macroeconomic conditions, emerging online business models, and Russian wood have in common? This blog will explore how these seemingly random things might make sense when put together.
Under the right regulatory framework, online sharing economy platforms have the potential to transform the informal economy in emerging countries, creating unimaginable benefits to its participants and their governments.
There is great opportunity for advancement in the quality of early learning through data-driven school optimization. AltSchool is an early innovator in this space and has the potential to change the entire face of early education through personalization of content [...]
The relationship between users and organizations in enterprise software is changing. Purchasers of IT should understand the shift, and developers should make conscious design decisions in light of it.
Digital entertainment channels are changing the future of television in India by targeting younger generation and leveraging the power of internet. Digital entertainment industry witnessed a growth of 300% in traffic in just one year. YouTube which was primarily a channel [...]
How, if at all, do shrewd algorithms enhance the playlist creation process for online on-demand music streaming services? Is there an effective balance between ‘man and machine’? Is this dichotomy relevant at all?