In a previous post, I described the success story of Alex Tew who managed to raise $1 million for his university education by selling one million pixels on a web page, at at price of $1 per pixel. In exchange for the pixels that they bought, purchasers had the possibility to display tiny images on them, […]
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The hidden treasure of piracy?
By 2 December 2013 41
You probably know “Game of Thrones”, the most popular TV series of the moment. The first two seasons were a huge hit and the third season premiered on March 31, 2013 on HBO (the American premium cable network that produces the series). There are about 4.5 million subscribers who follow the series. But overall, the […]
A closer look at the Google Books decision
By 21 November 2013 0
Last Thursday Judge Denny Chin of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [yep, the same one who rejected the proposed settlement agreement in 2011, holding that it was too unbalanced in favour of Google] issued his much-awaited ruling in the Google Books Library Project saga, which started back in 2005. It was then that the Authors’ Guild and the Association of […]
Browser War: The Return
By 10 November 2013 0
This is the fourth post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post (originally written by Fanny Avaux, Maxime Georgin, Marie-Laure Le Déodic & Sophie Naert) has been honed and complemented by Olivier Simons. The first browser war took place in the late 1990s when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer replaced Netscape’s […]
Still on Pinckney: end of the story?
By 30 October 2013 0
A few weeks have passed since the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its decision in Case C-170/12 Pinckney (here) and, since then, (some of) the thoughts of this blogger have been devoted to this ruling. As readers will promptly recollect, this case concerned interpretation of Article 5(3) of the Brussels I Regulation in the context of alleged online […]
What is the future of BlackBerry?
By 20 September 2013 4
This is the second post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post (originally written by Loïc Esselen, Zhang Hong, Sebastian Malmport and Vianney Picavet) has been polished and complemented by Olivier Simons. Once Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, has been market leader in […]
Building on Batibouw to understand two-sided platforms (2)
By 25 August 2013 0
I start here a series of posts that are adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. I have asked Olivier Simons, a former student of mine, to polish these papers and complement them with his own insights. This post (originally written by Thibaut Debruxelles, Pascaline Renard, Daniel Scurtu and Marielle […]
Beware! Privateers patrol these patent waters.
By 3 June 2013 12
In 1572, Queen Elizabeth I of England commissioned Francis Drake to sail for America and encouraged him to plunder Spanish vessels on his way. Drake had thus all the attributes of a pirate, except that he was not working for his own account but for a government. This type of pirate was known as a […]
What to think of targeted advertising?
By 19 April 2013 48
“Know Thy Customers!” This is the very first motto of marketing. The idea behind this motto is simple: the more information a firm has about its current and potential customers, the more it can segment its customer base into smaller groups, to which specific prices, product features and ads can be adjusted. Thereby, the firm […]
Will we all soon be hooked on MOOCs? (1) Introduction
By 3 April 2013 0
I have been willing to devote a blog post to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for quite some time now, but I never found the energy, nor the right timing to do so (the only step I took was to propose the “market for MOOCs” as a master thesis topic for students of the […]
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