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Amazon vs Walmart: The battle to control the future of retailing

The face of retail is changing fast, and perhaps fastest of all in the United States, the birthplace of the internet and of e-tailing. Amazon has so far dominated the online retailing game, but low-cast retailer Walmart has decided that the time has come to get serious about online, and the stage is set for … Read more

Bezos approach to newspaper business – focus on readers. Rocket science not.

My latest Rational Alternative column for the Financial Mail provided the opportunity for some navel gazing. That’s not terribly comfortable when you’re in an industry experiencing the sharp end of economist Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of Creative Destruction. But in every collapse, opportunities do emerge. So those of us in the mire seek inspiration from creative … Read more

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