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The history of IBM shows how a technology titan can grow and change, while still remaining focused on its core business.
Economic research suggests tax incentives and other corporate subsidies don’t have the positive impact they’re supposed to.
Dash Buttons have been ruled illegal under Germany’s consumer rights law. They might also contravene Australian consumer law.
Tech companies portray virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri as our helpers. In reality, we’re helping them gather the behavioural data they need to turn a profit.
Amazon nixed plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City after some New Yorkers questioned the wisdom of offering billions in tax breaks in exchange for job promises. A Texas study suggests they had reason to worry.
The tensions between platforms and their workers can be better understood by studying the mutual expectations of both parties.
For decades, advertisers and marketers struggled to predict the consumption of leisure products such as movies and books. Now, big data reveals how people really spend their leisure time.
Until last December, Internet service providers were required to respect the principle of web neutrality. This is no longer the case in the United States. What are the consequences?
Monopolies are bad for innovation and dismantling them would help the US economy compete.
If you’re worried your phone is recording your private conversations, look closer at the data you’ve already agreed to give away.
Forget Brexit or online competition. Millennials are just not consuming with the same fervour as their mums and dads.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla are redefining key aspects of daily life such as work, mobility and leisure, using our cities as laboratories for their innovations.
Some say the more than 230 cities that lost their bids for Amazon’s second headquarters were dupes in the retailer’s game. In fact, they were willing participants with their own aims.
Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
Amazon, Facebook and Google have lofty goals for their effects on global society. But people around the world are still waiting for the positive results. Here’s what the tech giants could do.
Expecting algorithms to perform perfectly might be asking too much of ourselves.
More than two-thirds of Earth’s remaining wilderness is in the hands of just five countries, according to a new global map. A concerted conservation effort is needed to save our last wild places.
Australia’s unemployment rate may have to fall much more before we see any wages growth.
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and Director of Research, Texas A&M University
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
