Is politics being privatised by tech giants like Uber?

Being ‘digitally disruptive’ has become a buzzword in recent years. Radical new business models from the likes of Uber and Airbnb have shaken-up entire businesses on a global scale. This is the ‘sharing economy’, the ‘gig economy’ or the ‘Uber economy’, and its membership is growing. The big players, at least by status, are Uber, Airbnb and Etsy, but others

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Uber’s vision for a driverless future begins with embracing technology

At Dreamforce 2015, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sat down with Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, to talk about the ride-sharing company’s business model and its vision for a future filled with robots and self-driving cars. Talking about how Uber is not only disrupting the taxi business, a nervous Kalanick lit up when he discussed how his company is changing

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House Rep Says Congress Uses Tech Like The DMV, But Should Be Like Uber

Interacting with Congress has more in common with going to the DMV than opening an Uber app. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.) thinks that’s a problem. The chair of the House Republican Conference told the 2015 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Friday that the Congress of the future will embrace technology the same way the private sector

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