Category Archives: Business

What You Can Learn From the Success of the Sharing Economy

The sharing economy, or collaborative consumption, has quickly overtaken many business sectors. Most people have, or know someone who has, tried Airbnb, Uber, Etsy or another share-based business. To be successful in the sharing economy, your brand must be efficient, trustworthy, innovative and community-centric. These principles aren’t just indicative of successful share-based businesses; they also play an […]

How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory

Strange things have been happening in the news lately. Already this year, members of US President Donald Trump’s administration have alluded to a ‘Bowling Green massacre’ and terror attacks in Sweden and Atlanta, Georgia, that never happened. The misinformation was swiftly corrected, but some historical myths have proved difficult to erase. Since at least 2010, […]

Snap’s IPO Made Its Employees Millionaires—Why Not DJ Khaled?

Snap’s IPO last week was good to investors, but it was even better to the company’s employees. Cofounders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each walked away with $272 million, in addition to each owning at least $5 billion worth of stock, and other early employees likely made themselves an extra comma in their bank account. But […]

Amazon’s Alexa Takes 88% Of Global Intelligent Home Speaker Market

Over four million Intelligent Home Speakers were sold globally in Q4 2016 and the report finds that Google’s Assistant achieved ten percent share in the quarter following the launch of its”Home’ speaker in November. “Amazon has had a near two year head start over its rivals and has done an excellent job of building out […]

KFC opens a cooking school

Want to know how KFC is made. Canadian shops will show you  KFC is answering some persistent questions about the way it prepares its food by opening pop-up cooking schools in its restaurants and letting Canadians see it first-hand. At three KFC locations in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver on March 12, consumers who sign […]

PROSPER at the Proper Show. Part of ASD Market Week

You may remember reading last year’s post about the PROSPER Show, where we shared some of our impressions of the conference. It was a resounding success, and we enjoyed it very much. So much so, in fact, that we decided to attend this year’s edition as well. This is just one of the reasons ASDmarketiweek is a must […]