Davos Stalked by Tech Disruption as Intel to Wal-Mart Tested
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As the Internet took off, newspaper publishers, record labels and travel agencies were all walloped by the emergence of free online alternatives.
Today, the range of threats to businesses is widening as companies from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Intel Corp. and Siemens AG grapple with similar dilemmas. At this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, technological disruption -- and what companies are doing to prepare for it -- is on executives’ minds, and was the subject of a Bloomberg Television panel today on the slopes of the Alpine resort town.