— Ashwin Seshagiri Now Serving Ice Cream Uber.com | Uber, the car-service app, is offering to sell on-demand ice cream in 33 cities tomorrow.
The excitement has come from its public cloud operations, where it competes against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure, selling on-demand computing and services.
The company also uses sophisticated technology that efficiently positions aircraft and analyzes fares, making it the leading innovator in selling on-demand, per-seat fares.
Enterprise companies for the most part do not sell on-demand services with automated, transactional sales.
Salesforce, of course, has its AppExchange where smaller companies can sell on-demand software to Salesforce customers (and have Salesforce host the apps).
Earlier this month, General Electric 's NBC Universal agreed to team up with MobiTV to sell on-demand viewing of full-length, ad-free episodes of The Office, Heroes and other shows for $1.99 each, under an arrangement that would work like on-demand cable TV programming.
Other investments include Aspire Health, a Nashville-based provider of home and outpatient-based palliative care; Feedzai, a San Mateo, Ca.-based startup that uses machine learning to reduce financial fraud; and Trov, a next-generation insurance platform in Danville, Ca., that sells on-demand micro insurance for products.
Going back to 1999, the record company would use radio as a way to get fans to discover a new act, then monetize that investment, primarily via selling "on-demand" access in the form of CDs and, finally, drive additional discovery by subsidizing touring (known as "tour support;" a label would underwrite some of the cost of touring to help build an audience to whom to sell CDs).
If they did well, they came back for more and in time they built their businesses on the supply of securities from Drexel.The key to their loyalty was Mr Milken's commitment to buy or sell on demand the bonds that Drexel had underwritten: he thus offered them a liquid market and a way out of investments they no longer wanted.
You cannot make money selling on-demand movies if all your passengers are glued to their iPads.
