Chris Bredin: How platforms are innovating
Five innovations
By his own admission, most of Chris Bredin's articles in the past year have focused on negative aspects of the platform sector and so, having been back in the office for a couple of weeks, he has written about five 'cool' or genuinely helpful developments the market made in 2019...
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