The results of Uber's legal battle could reshape the sharing economy, which is built around Internet companies that serve
as marketplaces matching people who provide a service with others looking to pay for it.
Not exact matches
And
as my fellow columnist John Nemo pointed out just last month, the company recently launched Profinder, a freelancer - for - hire
marketplace that
matches clients with freelance product and service providers.
In large part, Grubhub has been able to pursue these partnerships
as it shifted its business from being a pure online
marketplace that
matched diners to restaurants to a company that offered delivery services with Grubhub - employed drivers.
Graf joined Uber in late 2015
as head of
marketplace dynamics, managing the algorithms that
matched drivers with riders and set prices.
The fanfare soon turned into near apathy once the tablet launched that April,
as the T - Mobile version simply went ignored compared to other tablets offered by the carrier, chief among them Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Dell simply could not
match the pace of development that was quickly becoming the norm in the
marketplace, to the point that it lagged behind major Android versions before the decision was made to discontinue all mobile development in the US last October and further discontinue support for the Streak series in December, but not before rolling out Android 3.2 for the Wi - Fi version.
The
matching of investors to borrowers is done in a
marketplace such
as Lending Club or Prosper.
Plus,
as you say, I did get more familiar with making games, and indeed the
match - 3 genre and
marketplace, which helped me with making a game that hit the right spot.
As an example, the Legaler platform will use AI to
match lawyers and clients in a global
marketplace whilst allowing them to transact instantly via tokens without paying any commission or fees; something that is only possible through decentralized technology.
Marko Kobal, co-founder of NiceHash, the Slovenian startup that serves
as a
marketplace for
matching spare computing power to miners, stepped down from his role
as CEO last week.
Osuntokun hopes to launch a «
marketplace» on top of the Lightning Network that would help
match users, willing to pay small fees, with these watchtowers,
as well
as provide other services that help the network run.
The startup functions
as a two - sided
marketplace,
matching job seekers and employers in a process that sets deadlines to make and accept offers.