2015: The year the sharing economy went B2B

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From transportation to real estate, the past year has ushered in a sea change in who is buying and selling underutilised assets

Over the past few years, startups pitched as alternatives to individual mass consumption — Uber, Airbnb, Zipcar and the rest of their sharing economy cohorts — have become big business. In industries...

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