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Time To Downsize Hypermarkets? A Reboot For Argentine Retail

Responding to changing consumer habits, big box retail in Argentina have started converting outlets to offer an easier and cheaper shopping experience.

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In The News

Delivering Amazon To The Middle East

CAIRO — Amazon announced this week that it had acquired Souq.com, the major e-commerce website in the Middle East, in a deal that has long been speculated over and whose final value came in at $650 million. While Amazon described both companies as “sharing the same DNA,” the question remains as to how the company’s […]

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Economy Future Society

Digital Totalitarianism: How Big Data Is Killing Free Will

Humans are being degraded to the status of objects of an algorithm-based evaluation to be sold on the market. This exploitative form of “hypercapitalism” must quickly be reversed.

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Economy Society

The Spreading Psychodrama Of Being Rated Online

User ratings systems on service apps and websites are making some people obsessive about their online reputations, even as customers. Where is all this headed?

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