Discover how the peer-to-peer economy differs from traditional capitalism, emphasizing direct transactions without intermediaries for increased efficiency and innovation.

P2P lenders have sprung up in recent years online. Zopa in the UK pioneered the model, and has raised significant funding. And the P2P finance model has even spread to insurance. Now the model is ...

Online digital entertainment distributor Altnet has confirmed plans to share revenue generated by advertising on popular peer-to-peer applications with independent music labels. The independent label ...

When it comes to lending, P2P--for peer-to-peer--providers like Lending Club are now complementing, if not challenging, traditional banks by using social technology to bring together those who wish to ...

Business owners are understandably reluctant to allow employees, contractors and freelancers take the company credit card. But asking them to use a personal card raises other issues, such as scanning ...

After Beepi shut down its service and transferred its operations to stealth Fair.com, its closest competitor Shift is facing some downsizing, too — a measure of the challenges of the peer-to-peer car ...

The online video service Joost has killed off its desktop software client, telling users to instead access the service through the website — much the way Hulu, Tv.com and others are doing. The demise ...

A growing number of cleanweb startups have entered the solar sector, with the latest attempting to allow homeowners whose own roof is not solar suitable to purchase PV electricity through an online ...

As more and more content delivery start-ups crop up with peer-to-peer technology for easing the Internet's traffic problems, one new company is betting that the future of content distribution lies in ...

P2P.org, a validator for the Ethereum blockchain, has hit a new growth milestone and is launching a new staking model designed for businesses. The Ethereum validator has seen its total value locked ...

Here stands the manager of corporate information systems: an autocrat, a dictator of data who rules with an iron fist. It's nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, it's probably in the job description.