Despegar.com (and its Brazilian affiliate Decolar.com) was created to solve one of the main bottlenecks that travellers faced in Latin America: queuing for hours in front of a travel agent to book a flight. With Despegar.com, passengers were able to […]
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Athenahealth: The Quest to Unbreak Healthcare
Can athenahealth ease the burden for small and medium size physician's offices?
Digitalization And Cows: A Productive Marriage. MOOOOOO
Can digitalization transform the dairy products industry? There are good reasons to think it is.
Nike’s Play in the Digitization of Fitness
In the mid 2000’s Nike seemed poised to be a leader in the athletic and fitness digital revolution. In 2014 the company found itself exiting the wearable technology device market with the failure of its Nike+ Fuelband. How did Nike become an early leader in the fitness digital space, why did the FuelBand fail, and what can we learn from it all?
If an Algorithm Wrote This Blog Post, Would You Be Able to Tell?
Narrative Science's value proposition is to transform data into a narrative indistinguishable from the writing of a human. How will software-generated content impact the future of journalism?
A Tablet a Day Keeps the Dropouts at Bay: How Bridge Leveraged Tech to Become Africa’s Largest School Chain
Cashless $6-a-month payments for Kenyan private school tuition? Scripted, US-developed lessons pushed to Ugandan schoolteachers' tablets? The equivalent of 32% more schooling in English in a year? Thanks to technology, Bridge International Academies claims to have it all.
Digitizing the globe one pixel at a time – Google Maps
A short story of Google Maps’ past, present and future
Whirlpool: Are these the appliances of your dreams?
Imagine a world where your stove identifies and cooks your food for you. Whirlpool is making it a reality.
PAYTM and India’s Cash Driven Economy: Opportunity for Online Payments
The immense opportunity for online payments in the world's fastest growing major economy
How Technology is Reinventing the Supermarket: Whole Foods in the Digital Age
Whole Foods is incorporating technology into its model to bring customers the grocery store of the future.