Enormous growth and a redrawn supply chain required a new system
Technology and mobile finance needed as nanostores’ compete against online behemoths
Reduce fares in adjacent areas to draw more drivers to where demand is high
Balancing vaccine efficacy against need to quickly inoculate more people
VC money for tech pushes up costs for everyone else
Information helps users decide when, and whether, to venture outside or exercise
With a business model built on fewer employees, their dominance saps dynamism.
A separate motivator: friends living in areas abundant in solar panels
Individuals using the Robinhood trading app appear to beat the market
19th-century French cotton mills suggest halting, uneven progress
A model predicts with 80% accuracy which orders get handed off
Complexity and a failure to boost platform revenue were culprits
Smartphone GPS tracks staffers between facilities
Do bigger companies win even when they lose out on corrupt deals?
Technology and “industrialization” are reshaping services as they did manufacturing
Using smartphones to track lockdown compliance, paying employers to keep workers on the payroll and gauging nursing home availability