This week in GAFAnomics #38
Amazon reinvents shopping / Snapchat’s mutation / Pandora is taking on Spotify
Amazon keeps expanding into in the physical world. The retail giant intends to open over 2000 “Amazon Go” grocery stores in the US in the next decade. By providing a frictionless shopping experience (no payment, no lines), Amazon helps customers save the most valuable asset they have, Time. In exchange for this time, Amazon becomes a one-stop shop for everything you buy, online AND offline. — Curated by Elisa Jo Harkness
Snap Inc.’s job listings increasingly feature 3D experts and augmented reality specialist. Snapchat slowly shifts from being a social network to an augmented reality company. Before that, Facebook and Twitter have become new medias, Messenger, Slack and WeChat have become service providers. For all these companies, being a social network was just a first step to scale their user base exponentially, and then mutate into a service provider. — Curated by Joachim Renaudin
Internet radio Pandora announced that it’ll launch a Spotify competitor in the beginning of 2017. Many wonder how it intends to gain marketshare when Spotify has grown to 40 million paying users and Apple Music just reached 20M. Pandora sits on a data goldmine to offer the most personalized experience: it has 78M users that have listened to the service for many years. — Curated by Joachim Renaudin
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