“Party’s over for US music downloads”: what could cheer up the music industry?
Today (27 Sept. 2010), the Financial Times, under the title “Party’s over for US music downloads”, reports that the online sale of music during the first half of 2010 is flat compared to the same...
View ArticleWhat to think of ‘patent trolls’?
Early october this year, Apple was condemned by a US court to pay $625.5 million damages to a small company, Mirror Worlds LLC, for infringing three patents related to how files are displayed on...
View ArticlePatent trolls et marché des brevets
Au début du mois d’octobre 2010, l’entreprise Apple a été condamnée par la justice américaine à payer pas moins de 625,5 millions de dollars à la petite société Mirror Worlds, LLC pour avoir enfreint...
View ArticleDavid (Apple) est devenu Goliath et intéresse les autorités de la concurrence.
La compagnie Apple a construit son image en opposition à celle de Microsoft. On l’a souvent présenté comme David luttant contre Goliath. Microsoft-Goliath, a fait l’objet de poursuites par les...
View ArticleGoogle et ses concurrents (I): le prochain géant américain visé par les...
Trois images qui résument les tensions entre Google et d’autres géants du net et de l’informatique (tous américains!). Google concurrence Microsoft et son moteur de recherche, Bing (à moins que ce...
View ArticleThe smartphone patent wars and competition policy
Source: http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/mobile-patent-suits-graphic-of-the-day/ Last Wednesday (April 18, 2012), Lucy Koh, a US District Court Judge, may have paved the way towards a truce on...
View ArticleNike+ and its competitors: a running battle?
For a few years now, Nike has been operating, in collaboration with Tomtom and Apple, a series of devices that allow walkers and runners to record and follow various parameters related to their walk...
View ArticleThe 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, Lucy Koh, a US District Court Judge, tried to force a truce on one of the fiercest fronts...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: l’icône de la marque Apple
Le film Jobs, sorti en 2013, déroule le parcours biographique du célèbre fondateur de la marque à la pomme, de ses années d’étudiant à la sortie en 2001 de l’iPod qui allait révolutionner...
View ArticlePlanned obsolescence in the digital age
In about two weeks, on April the 8th, Microsoft is ending its support services for its popular operating system (OS) Windows XP. With the date drawing closer, one can increasingly read the claim that...
View ArticleMedia Ecosystems: advertising and publishing protocols
This is the second post of a series on Media Ecosystems. The first post draws the outline of the series. Advertising as a complementary good Since George Stigler’s paper on information costs (1961),...
View ArticleEntrants’ strategies to compete with incumbent banks
Source: mashable.com In our previous post, we explained that non-banks (Google, Apple, start-up companies) compete with banks to offer retail services, but that entry costs are high. What are the...
View ArticleApple Inc. en justice: quand les droits intellectuels rencontrent le droit...
La vie des petites et grandes entreprises, en particulier de celles qui sont innovantes, est parsemée de difficultés et de différends. On les retrouve très souvent impliquées dans des litiges en...
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