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2007: The Year of Cleantech
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
12.28.2007 1:30:00 PM
Amidst growing public concerns over rising fuel prices, instability in the Middle East, and global climate change, a new ‘clean technology' industry dominated tech sector investment in 2007. Despite the influx of private capital, the birth of innovative new startups, and the success of market-based solutions, policymakers stubbornly hold onto an obsolete model where only governments can tackle environmental challenges. If lawmakers cannot resist the temptation to pick winners, set standards, and micromanage research, a thriving new cleantech industry will be strangled in its cradle.
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Microsoft’s Antitrust Opera Continues
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
12.18.2007 9:50:00 AM
Only two months after ending a four year legal battle and bowing to the demands of European antitrust regulators, Microsoft may be right back where it started. Opera Software, a Norwegian web browser manufacturer, filed an antitrust complaint last week with the European Commission, hoping to breathe new life into decade-old charges. Unable to match the popularity of competing browsers, Opera hopes to gain market share by replacing consumer choice with government mandates.
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House Reconsiders Its Start-Up Shutdown Tax Plan
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
12.10.2007 5:30:00 PM
The House this week reconsiders a plan to double the tax rate for investing in high-risk, innovative technology ventures. Venture capitalists are entrepreneurs with the business skills and vision to capitalize on creative ideas, working hand-in-hand with inventors to help launch and build start-ups. Without venture capitalists, companies like Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, and Genentech would never have gotten off the ground. Why would Congress seek to discourage these investments?
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A Virtual Economy Case Study
By: Sebastian Wisniewski
12.4.2007
What if there was a way to live a life without meaningful consequences? What if individuals could participate in a virtual economy largely separate from the one surrounding us in the real world? What if policies could be applied to real people, but with laboratorial consequences? Second Life, an internet-based virtual world often compared to a computer game, and its derivatives may offer answers to those questions.
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How AT&T Lost the iPhone
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
12.3.2007 4:47:00 PM
As this year's holiday shopping season kicks off, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson revealed last week that a newer, faster version of the iPhone is headed for stores...next year. Holiday sales are certain to suffer as shoppers reconsider purchasing a soon-to-be obsolete product. How could a 25-year industry veteran make such a huge blunder? Not only has Stephenson potentially cost his company $1 billion, but this announcement likely signals the beginning of the end for AT&T's exclusive relationship with Apple.
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