Entrants’ strategies to compete with incumbent banks

  In our previous post, we explained that non-banks (Google, Apple, start-up companies) compete with banks to offer retail …

Innovation and regulation in the retail banking industry

Over the recent years, several innovations have emerged on the retail banking market: mobile payments, Internet Banking, peer-to-peer lending …

The risk of patent trolls in the U.S. and in Europe: a sequel to a never ending story

The issue of ‘patent assertion entities’ (PAEs) or ‘patent trolls’, i. e. of companies that acquire patent portfolios to …

Planned obsolescence in the digital age

In about two weeks, on April the 8th, Microsoft is ending its support services for its popular operating system …

What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?

The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers …

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 …

The smartphone patent wars: nothing really surprising…

(This is an updated and slightly modified version of this post, published on April 25, 2012.) In April 2012, …

Will ‘Patent trolls’ soon appear on the European market?

It is under this title that a series of articles (published in the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique on …

Les ‘patent trolls’ bientôt sur le marché européen? Mise à jour fin 2014

C’est sous ce titre qu’un dossier du journal La Libre (19 oct. 2013) préparé par Laurent Lambrecht (voir ici) se …

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 …