Crowdsourced delivery explained: making same day shipping cheaper through local couriers

Retailers and their logistics partners have been pushed to meet growing customer demands for increasingly speedy shipping. And the steady rise of e-commerce has caused the daily volume of parcel shipments to skyrocket — two trends that, for the foreseeable future, are only going to continue. With fulfillment giants like Amazon constantly nipping at their […]

Should Police Turn to Crowdsourced Online Sleuthing?

We’ve all been riveted by stunning criminal mysteries and whodunits. Most of America was horrified, for example, by the brutal murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey in Colorado in 1996. Theories abound as to why she was killed and whether she was sexually assaulted. But 22 years later, we still don’t know exactly what […]

Numerai will give $1 million in crypto tokens to Kaggle users who sign up to its crowdsourced hedge fund

EXCLUSIVE: You may have heard of Numerai — the unorthodox hedge fund that crowdsources predictive stock market models from data scientists around the world. It is now seeking more brain power and announced today that it is giving away $ 1 million worth of cryptocurrency to Kaggle users who sign up. The San Francisco-based hedge […]

THE CROWDSOURCED DELIVERY REPORT: How crowdsourcing is helping to improve the troublesome last mile of e-commerce delivery

BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. As the steady rise of e-commerce pushes logistics companies and their retail partners to deliver more parcels, faster, speedy delivery is becoming a major competitive advantage.  And no company has capitalized on this opening like Amazon, […]

Otoy’s Jules Urbach believes the blockchain can produce a crowdsourced rendering engine

Once upon a time, you had to submit a program to the computer department. They would run it, and send the results back to you in the form of a printout. That worked well in the days when there was one big computing resource that everybody had to share. In a way, Jules Urbach, CEO […]

Moovit wants to use its crowdsourced mapping data to transform public transportation

Since launching five years ago, Moovit has quietly developed a powerful mapping tool for public transportation that is used by millions globally. Now the company is preparing to take its next big step by leveraging the community of mappers who helped build its service. To do that, Moovit has opened its treasure trove of data […]

Google Duo video-calling to be integrated into crowdsourced caller ID app Truecaller

Truecaller announced a number of additions to its popular caller ID and crowdsourced phone directory app today — but one upcoming feature in particular stood out from the rest. The company revealed that it will soon integrate with Google Duo, the standalone video-calling app announced by Google last May and launched on both Android and […]