It’s getting easier to tote up the damage from the Uberization of the U.S. economy -- especially by Uber itself. The victims include taxi drivers and owners, whose business is being cannibalized, and ...
The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Leena Iyar Flagging down ...
Image cleanup operations at Uber are no doubt working in overdrive just now. New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is apologizing, compromising and reengineering the company’s culture as fast as possible in hopes ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The uberization of trucking, or freight consolidation, refers to using app-based technologies to utilize empty truck space — to make the ...
In high school, I worked in a movie theater that offered half-price tickets on Tuesdays. I asked the manager, a septuagenarian named Joe, “Why Tuesday?” He answered in two words: “Milton Berle.” No, I ...
The worst aspect of the “Uberization” of our economy may not be the transformation of workers who could once earn a living wage into “independent contractors” who can barely make ends meet (though ...
According to Business Insider writer Eugene Kim, that 800-pound gorilla isn’t Uber itself, who as we’ve written have clear intent of moving into freight brokerage themselves. Kim reported from sources ...
Imagine that you want to buy a home. You might find a real-estate agent to show you around, which is a very 20th-century way of doing things. Or you might go 21st century and use the Web to research ...
Originally published by Gérald Karsenti on LinkedIn: Uberization is an opportunity ! My first two posts discussed new players reshuffling the cards of the global economy - forcing traditional ...
Last month, a professor at Pratt Institute posted an enthusiastic note on an all-faculty email forum dreaming of what ‘Uberization’ might do for education. The author posted the following response: I ...