Facebook’s Currency Dream Shrivels On
Libra, or, um, Diem is a dim shadow of its original idea.
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The Facebook-WhatsApp Lesson: Privacy Protection Necessary for Innovation
WhatsApp founder Jam Koum's breakup with Facebook speaks to how the internet economy could evolve, how competition and innovation could be encouraged, if regulators simply do their job.
How the FTC Could Have Prevented the Facebook Mess
The FTC issued a 2011 consent order against Facebook to protect the privacy of user data. But the Commission never enforced the order, even as Facebook disregarded its provisions. If the order had been enforced,...
How to Regulate the Sharing Economy
Techonomists Arun Sundararajan and Andrew McAfee were among seven who contributed to a debate in The New York Times last week about how to handle the disruptive economic effects of the emerging sharing economy. The...
Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Websites
As a go-to search engine and powerful online advertiser, Google has great influence over online consumers. But is this influence illegal? As Google has moved beyond search and search advertising and into online commerce and...
