Google’s latest claimed antitrust get-out-of-jail-free-card is that Google is effectively immune from antitrust prosecution because it has a constitutional free speech right to free speech to rank and present its search results any way it wants, per a new Google-sponsored white paper by UCLA Law...
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Top Ten Untrue Google Stories
The FCC’s Google Street View wiretapping investigation proved that Google’s public representations it was just a mistake one rogue engineer — that the FTC and foreign law enforcement relied upon to close their investigations — were untrue. Going forward, law enforcement must remember the old...
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Google’s Poor & Defiant Settlement Record
Google’s poor and defiant track record in respecting government agreements and settlements is likely one of the reasons the FTC hired an undefeated former Federal prosecutor and litigator to lead their Google antitrust probe and potential litigation against Google. The EU and the FTC are...
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Mobile Payments Ignite New Competitive Free-For-All
Mobile technology advances are dramatically increasing the intensity of competition broadly online and offline. The technological convenience of using a smart phone, tablet etc. rather than a card or cash to pay for goods and services, wherever one may be, is igniting a competitive free-for-all....
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Where’s the Market for Online Privacy?
Why are market forces so weak in protecting users’ online privacy? The main reason is that the online marketplace is economically structured around users being a commodity, data, to be aggregated and mined, not customers to be served and protected in a competitive marketplace. That’s...
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Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
Since most people focus on how the Internet is changing the world, few focus on the reverse — how much the world is changing the Internet. See My Forbes Tech Capitalist blog post to learn the “Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet.” ...
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Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
The kerfuffle that paints the Google Wallet App as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles. To see what...
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Grand Theft Auto-mated! Online Ad-Economics Fuel Piracy & SOPA Opposition
The likely passage of online anti-piracy legislation (SOPA/PIPA) in 2012 has put a spotlight on the substantial ad-based business interests aligned with piracy and against piracy enforcement. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why Grand Theft Auto-mated is such big business and so...
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Why Anti-Piracy Legislation Will Become Law
Pending anti-piracy legislation (Senate: PROTECT IP, House: SOPA) is very likely to become law in 2012. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why, and why it’s important....
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The Metamorphosis of Communications Competition — A New Framework
For those seeking to better understand how communications competition has evolved, expanded, and accelerated to cloud communications competition, don’t miss my new six-chart powerpoint presentation: “The Metamorphosis of Communications Competition,” here. My bottom line conclusion: The transformation of communications competition requires a transformation in communications...
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