Internet middlemen help ordinary people share cars and apartments.
Many exhibitors were Internet middlemen, promising evaluation, exposure and marketing — for a percentage of course.
But Microsoft has careened wildly off course in its pursuit of being the Internet's middleman.
(Don't buy from these guys. Buy direct from fleet and cut out the middleman!) Internet buying services prefer to send their referrals to the dealership's Fleet Departments.
But what if the falloff was caused by something more profound — an existential crisis brought about by the Internet, which eliminates middlemen like agencies, and by consumers, who increasingly hate being interrupted by ads?
By cutting out the middleman, the Internet removes this source of cross-checking.Lastly, electronic money is likely to make tax evasion easier.
Groupon, based in Chicago, was an early leader in the business of offering discounts on things like restaurant meals and local tourism over the Internet, profiting as a middleman on the deals.
The internet has squelched inefficient middlemen in other industries, from insurance brokers to travel agents.
Do you feel any empathy toward the Hollywood middlemen the Internet is putting out of business?
They are trying to end any vestige of what's come to be known as "network neutrality", the idea that we users of the internet, not the corporate middlemen, should make the decisions about what bits of information get delivered to our devices.
