On Monday, one of the byproducts of disintermediation hit me with the force of, well -- a hurricane, to be exact. We are more connected globally than ever before. This Monday and Tuesday, three ...

With some justification, skeptics have questioned whether cyberwar is a realistic scenario for concern or merely a scary story to earn funding for security companies and writers. Unfortunately, there ...

A flood of behavioral targeting company news coincided with the OMMA Behavioral conference at the Marriott Marquis in NYC this past Thursday. “There are many more intermediaries becoming involved in ...

Miley Cyrus, the pop starlet who hosted MTV’s "Video Music Awards" on Sunday, surprised the world when she announced she had produced a new album independent of her record label and is making it ...

One of the most pervasive phenomena of the Internet age has been disintermediation -- threats to established brokers or middlemen between consumers and service providers. This has very much hit the ...

If you’ve even casually followed the startup world over the last five years there’s a word that you’ve surely heard – disintermediation. It’s a fancy new word for a plain old business concept: cutting ...

Middlemen soon may need to find another line of work. We are seeing it everywhere — industries are finding more ways to cut out the intermediaries and bring customers closer to their products or ...

The future of health care and medical research is not going to be bigger and shinier hospitals. It will be care that is delivered directly to the places where people live. It will be data streaming ...

Most of you know that I've been tracking closely the inversion of control seemingly being ushered in en masse by the Web. That the interesting parts of the Web are increasingly contributed by its ...