Insights
From User Exploitation to Data Coops: The Never-Ending Battle for Control of Users and the Online, and Offline, Experience
Digital technology is finally able to give control of the Internet to the users and workers. However, history suggests user/worker-controlled networks will lose to the centralized server-spoke model of the Silicon-Valley data brokers.
How a Digitally-Native Small Business Retailer Engages & Sells: Q&A with Michael Wieder, Co-Founder, President and CMO of Lalo
We discuss with Michael Wieder, Co-Founder & President of Lalo, how a digitally-native SMB sells, uses innovative tech, and the potential impact of tech legislation on such a business.
Backseat Driver: Data Privacy, Your Car, and You
Without federal legislation around the ownership and privacy of data collected by sophisticated personal vehicles, the legal rules of the road about such data are unclear.
Go time: On the Doorstep of a Recession, Rural SMBs Find Success Using Multiple Selling Methods
On the doorstep of recession, U.S. rural small business sellers find success, resilience, and agility by using multiple sales methods, both online and offline.
Acquisitions, Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust, and Harming Innovation: The Unusual, Experimental Case of Meta, Within, and the FTC
A partisan move by FTC Commissioners seeks to block Meta from acquiring a small VR company. This move upends decades of antitrust standards and likely causes more harm than good.
The Lorax in the Monkey House: Injecting Innovation and Competition into Platform Services Markets
State and local governments can supercharge market competition and innovation by better empowering alternative business models like worker cooperatives.
Should Big Tech Acquisitions Be Restricted?
Analysis of datasets on M&A and venture activity shows Big Tech's startup acquisitions don't reduce competition or dampen innovation.
Should Platforms Be Banned from Selling in Their Own Markets?
New policies propose to ban platforms from selling in their own marketplaces but disregard the economic benefits of seller-operated marketplaces.
The New State of Data Privacy: Q&A With Jake Ward, CEO of Data Protocol
We discuss with Jake Ward, CEO of Data Protocol, how they create education programs and certifications to help software developers view data privacy as a feature of every product.