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Today’s news: Google vs Government

Putting Google’s business model at risk by forcing publishers to collect fees, makes the long term outcome of the new Spanish Google-tax highly unpredictable. Network effects On January 01, 2015 a new Spanish law comes into effect forcing search engines and third party news aggregates to compensate publishers for linking to their content. The new […]

Over-innovation limits Facebook’s future

Facebook has an innovation problem for which it compensates by “over-innovation” of existing products. That strategy backfires, hurting the company’s reputation, making it hard to expand into business software with its recently announced Facebook@Work, a tool for messaging and collaboration, The company is successful because of its first mover advantage, networking effects and the backing […]