Powerful tech firms are altering not just the way we buy things, but could sweep away an entire economic model Hardly a day goes by without some tech company proclaiming that it wants to reinvent itself as a platform. Back in March, when South Korea banned Uber, the company promised to let local taxi drivers use its platform - along with its matching services. Facebook pulled a similar trick in early May: having run into trouble with its pseudo-humanitarian effort to provide free internet access...
Powerful tech firms are altering not just the way we buy things, but could sweep away an entire economic model Hardly a day goes by without some tech company proclaiming that it wants to reinvent itself as a platform. Back in March, when South Korea banned Uber, the company promised to let local taxi drivers use its platform - along with its matching services. Facebook pulled a similar trick in early May: having run into trouble with its pseudo-humanitarian effort to provide free internet access...
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