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"A SWOT analysis is a simple tool to help you work out the internal and external factors affecting your business. It is one of the most commonly used business analysis and decision-making tools ... "

"The following is an example of a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis conducted by a business trying to decide if they should introduce a new product to their range ... "

"Airbnb is an online community marketplace where people can list any accommodation for rent and others can book the space for use. Designers Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky, and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb in 2008. Airbnb lodgings, which can range from a single room or apartment to a castle or yacht, could be found in 192 countries around the world as of 2015 ... "

"Airbnb began in 2008 when two designers who had space to share hosted three travellers looking for a place to stay. Now, millions of hosts and travellers choose to create a free Airbnb account so they can list their space and book unique accommodation anywhere in the world ... "

"Airbnb is an online community marketplace that allows people to rent or sell lodging. Users all over the world can post spaces available for rent; in turn, Airbnb allows customers to rent out those spaces, which could be available anywhere from a couple of days to a month."

"Airbnb, an online marketplace for accommodations, has experienced a staggering growth accompanied by intense debates and scattered regulations around the world. Current discourses, however, are largely focused on opinions rather than empirical evidences. Here, we aim to bridge this gap by presenting the first large-scale measurement study on Airbnb ... "

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia's largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries.

"The article discusses the company profile of rental and lodging website Airbnb named Company of the Year for 2014 by "Inc.". Topics covered a brief history of Airbnb, how the activities of Airbnb were legalized and taxed, and the goals and mission of Airbnb according to Airbnb chief executive officer (CEO) Brian Chesky. "

"Reaching over 2 billion users around the world as of early 2019, the social-networking site Facebook has brought people together in unprecedented ways and provided innovative sharing and communication tools. Nevertheless, the site and its policies have also raised concerns about privacy and safety ..."

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia's largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries.

"Australian competition tsar Rod Sims says Facebook and Google must shoulder blame for cuts to thousands of journalism jobs in Australia over the past decade, and that the rise of the digital platforms at the expense of traditional media is not simply a case of "creative destruction" ... "

"Facebook is celebrating its first decade. Its success is remarkable – but what about the changes to society? ... "

"The Federal Government has ordered the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct to govern commercial dealings between tech giants and news media companies ... "

"“Today I want to focus on the most important question of all,” wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Are we building the world we all want?”

The “social infrastructure” built by the company Zuckerberg founded is now regularly used by almost two billion people. His ‘Building Global Community’ essay, which he posted on Facebook in February, is an ode to the virtues of connectivity ... "

"This research aims to empirically examine how Uber has transformed the traditional taxi industry in New York. To this end, we employed a time-series regression model, controlling for various factors that may affect taxi trips, and found no direct evidence that the number of taxi trips, the revenue per driver, or occupancy rates have decreased since Uber entered the market. However, a closer investigation into other dimensions, specifically the degree of dispersion of pick-up and drop-off locations, reveals that taxi drivers have been forced to change their way of conducting business in order to retain their market position. "

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia's largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries.

"Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on digital platforms. This creates economic and other value but raises concerns around racial bias, safety, and fairness to competitors and workers that legal scholarship has begun to address ... "

"Thousands of taxi and hire-car drivers will launch what is expected to be one of Australia’s biggest class actions when it takes on Uber in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday ... "

"There’s an old sporting sledge, coined by a 1930s Springboks rugby forward after an unlikely win, that applies equally in business: “Look at the scoreboard!” Andrew Skelton, CEO and Managing Director of A2B Australia, the old Cabcharge business running the 13cabs network, said as much to Uber in the AFR last week in releasing the company’s FY19 results ... "

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia's largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries.

"Do streaming services like Spotify and Pandora hurt musicians? Artists, established and aspiring, can flow both ways on the debate, but there’s no denying that the new model has had a dramatic impact on the industry and its profits. Hari Sreenivasan reports ... "

"Many have hailed online streaming as the music industry’s savior. Streaming revenue surpassed traditional format sales in 2017, and services like Spotify are even making it possible for artists with no mainstream presence or even record label contracts to make a living ... "

"The contemporary retail landscape is in flux, and there is a growing perception that shopping at bricks and mortar stores is more expensive and time-consuming than shopping online. For music, illegal downloading and streaming have restructured the retail landscape and put thousands of record shops out of business ... "

"Spotify has been able to build lean and agile principles and practices into its culture since the very beginning. There is no doubt that having this mindset from day one was a huge advantage for the organization: it allowed us to support our extremely fast growth by attracting the right talent and by innovating ... "

"In 1999 the global recorded music industry had experienced a period of growth that had lasted for almost a quarter of a century. Approximately one billion records were sold worldwide in 1974, and by the end of the century, the number of records sold was more than three times as high ... "

"Record companies are suffering due to a downturn in recorded music sales. Innovative firms have created digital music services that offer recorded music products to customers in new ways ... "

"Bitcoin is a payment system that involves electronic currency that is exchanged using open-source software. It is part of a category of digital currency called cryptocurrency. The currency is created and stored electronically, typically on computer hard drives and cell phones, and is protected from third parties by cryptography. Bitcoin allows users to make online transactions that are secure and untraceable ... "

"... Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency which, unlike the money found in virtual worlds, such as Second Life's "Linden Dollars", can be used to purchase goods and services not just online but in the real world (most recently in a chain of British pubs). Its creator or creators remain a mystery, but its innovative peer-to-peer structure and sophisticated code have helped establish Bitcoin as the leader in its field ... "

"A hearing Tuesday on the regulatory future of Bitcoin instead turned into a forum on the shortcomings of the traditional banking industry. The hearing, called by New York State's top financial regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, gave five Bitcoin advocates the chance to discuss what they view as the advantages of Bitcoin over current systems of moving money around the world ... "

"The purpose of this study is to explore whether the diffusion of cryptocurrencies represents a disruptive change and what is the potential magnitude of this change ... "

"Bitcoin heralds a new age more disruptive than that of today’s Internet. Disruption can be a good thing, especially when it affects banking, a failing set of business models which, for all the tweaks, have been virtually unchanged for millennia ... "

"A financial network is a technological platform that people build businesses on top of. And the traditional banking and credit card networks are closed platforms ... "

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia's largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries.

As digital media continues to expand, competition between cable television and
online streaming services increases. Acquiring customers today takes more than
just advertising; it requires tailoring business objectives to the needs and wants of
consumers ... "

"Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time ... "

"With 130 million subscribers, reaching an estimated 300 million people worldwide, Netflix has become an international phenomenon that has millions of people now binge-watching a variety of TV shows and movies. Netflix has completely disrupted and changed the distribution and content creating landscape in the entertainment industry ... "

"Australian television has always been dominated by free-to-air television. Once protected from extranational competition by its geography and by a regulatory structure which controlled the conditions for entry, the dominance of the commercial channels, in particular, has until now been relatively unaffected by the introduction of pay television and local subscription or streaming services ... "

"When customers evaluate a product or service, they weigh its perceived value against the asking price. Marketers have generally focused much of their time and energy on managing the price side of that equation, since raising prices can immediately boost profits ... "