The sharing, or collaborative, economy is a new type of business built on the concept of shared resources. This ability to share what is available allows customers to access goods or services when ...

Moderated by Dorian Warren, Ph.D., fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, MSNBC contributor, and board chair of the Center for Community Change, “The Sharing Economy” panel at TechConneXt 2016 ...

The sharing economy will build trust between people, reduce resource consumption, and stretch tight pocketbooks. All that may well be true. There are aspects of the sharing economy that are cool ...

By far the most prominent sharing services are those based around accommodation and cars. The best-known example is Airbnb, based in San Francisco, which has helped 4m people find places to stay ...

“Obviously ‘the sharing economy’ is a misnomer, which the industry no doubt likes a lot,” said Dean Baker, an economist and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

This business-to-consumer (B2C) sharing economy took off so quickly that, in 2015, PwC projected the B2C sharing economy would grow from $15 billion in 2013 to a whopping $335 billion by 2025.Fast ...

Author Rachel Botsman, one of the preeminent writers on the sharing economy, shared this vision in a 2012 TEDGlobal talk. "It's only a matter of time before we'll be able to perform a Facebook- or ...

Statista, a provider of market and consumer data, said there were 44.8 million adults using sharing economy services in the U.S. in 2016, and forecast that this will increase to 86.5 million by ...

In 2008, a startup called Airbnb began to popularize the sharing economy. The concept was simple: If you have extra space in your home, list it on Airbnb and people will rent it out. You get paid ...

Sharing economy can help financial struggles Date: November 24, 2015 Source: Queensland University of Technology Summary: The power of the sharing economy in shaking up traditional industries can ...

Cities make the sharing economy work, and the urban environment is the critical differentiator for experimentation, change and scale. In just a few years, the sharing economy has grown from a ...