Can Obama’s initiative ensure that ‘internet fast lanes’ do not develop to the detriment of standard access?

  On November 10, 2014, the US president called the agency in charge of regulating the media, the Federal …

Media Ecosystems: Economic issues and policy implications

This is the fourth and last post of a series on Media Ecosystems. The first post draws the outline of the …

Mind. your own. business school – a case study of a multi-sided platform

This blog post is based on the comments of Master students to an article posted by Paul Belleflamme in …

A ‘multisourced’ case-study of a multisided platform

To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a …

Prezi: a successful freemium model?

Last year, I had to deliver a speech about the economics of Internet to a non-technical audience. To make …

Can IPdigIT start a snowball effect?

In a previous post, I described the success story of Alex Tew who managed to raise $1 million for his …

The hidden treasure of piracy?

You probably know “Game of Thrones”, the most popular TV series of the moment. The first two seasons were …

Browser War: The Return

This is the fourth post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Why does Microsoft keep chasing Google’s taillights with Bing?

Four years ago, Microsoft released a new search engine: Bing. It was aimed to be an improved version of …

MyMicroInvest, a Belgian crowdfunding platform for European entrepreneurs

This is the third post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …