Hey Siri, can you help yourself?
How Siri blew its lead in the race to become the ultimate virtual assistant
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“Stay Famous” with FameBit: A Self-Serve Marketplace for Creators and Brands
How a two-sided marketplace connecting creators and brands democratized sponsored content and got acquired by Google
Amazon in the Clouds
Amazon Web Services has quickly grown to one of the most powerful forces in cloud computing today. With an aggressive product launch tempo and willingness to take on big rivals, AWS is poised to continue its explosive growth.
Nay on Waymo: A Prediction for the Self-Driving Car Race
Predicting the future of the self-driving car industry. Making a bet and going short on Waymo.
Google Maps: the winner that begets winning
The forces behind how Google Maps keeps winning and helps others to win too
Starbucks: Brewing up a data storm!
Starbucks’ use of data from geographic information systems (GIS) allows the coffee chain to optimize store location, perhaps explaining why it’s feasible to have four Starbucks stores within a 1-mile radius in Harvard Square!
Google: Data-driven Value Creation and Value Capture
Google uses data and analysis creatively in every aspect of it’s operating model, value creation, and value capturing.
Crowdsourcing Entertainment: has Amazon found the Magic Bullet for Content Creation?
This post examines the value creation and capture model of Amazon Studios in regards to its use of crowdsourcing and attempts to answer the question of whether crowdsourcing is the future of entertainment.
Who’s Down to Help Google Categorize How You Spend Your Time Offline?
"Who's Down", Google's new app aimed at college campuses wants to know what you're looking to do… where… and with whom.
Waze, or how to crowd-source your way
From a modest Israeli start-up to one of the highest valuation during its acquisition by Google, Waze embodies the success of crowdsourcing ventures, and allows for a much cheaper method of data collection than that used by major corporations – like Waze’s new mother company, Google.