Competition in the Digital Age
Back in 2000, Stephen King tried something new in selling a novel, The Plant. He decided to offer it exclusively online — in digital format — knowing that there was effectively no protection against copying. Of course, King was well aware that selfishness may be against him and so decided to offer his book in installments. …
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We are told that some large fraction (possibly 80 percent) of small, entrepreneurial businesses fail. The hard part is working out why. You may notice a restaurant has closed in your neighborhood. If it seemed popular, you wonder if the owner left for greener pastures or there was some hidden health issue no one had …
Despite the vast amounts of computing and communication power in corporate hands, companies are at the early stages of using IT to revamp business practices, become more efficient, and drive the next wave of national productivity growth. That's the intro the an interview that David Talbot, Technology Review's chief correspondent, did with Erik Brynjolfsson last week. The first …
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Pull into a parking lot, open the right [mobile] app and you may be able to save a dollar or two on your next fill-up. Over the course of a year, you might even save enough money for a decent meal out. That's from an article by Bob Tedeschi in the New York Times on an emerging …
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Digitopoly 