May 18, 2012
Mobile Banking: The Financial Services Onramp
Bloomberg’s William Pesek depicts Apple’s iPhone as a double-edged sword, where payments provides the positive: combined with the latest innovations in financial inclusion and mobile banking, the very device being...
May 17, 2012
The iPhone, Mobile Banking, and Reducing Poverty
The businessperson’s perspective on mobile banking is easy to follow: get the three billion people who have smartphones but not bank accounts onto an electronic financial network; deploy new services;...
May 17, 2012
iPad no longer exempt from import duty, now classified as...
Russia’s Federal Customs Service has stopped classifying the iPad as a computer. The classification had allowed Apple to get away with paying no customs duties, whereas other tablet computers with...
May 16, 2012
eBook class action to proceed against Apple, five other publishers
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote denied Apple and five other publishers’ motion to dismiss an eBook price-fixing class action lawsuit. The suit, originally filed on August 9, 2011, is separate...
May 15, 2012
A Skeptical Optimist’s Look at Facebook
Optimists see Facebook’s prospects as almost unbounded. After all, it has almost a billion users and its users spend an astounding amount of time on the site. Even if you...
May 14, 2012
A Skeptical Optimist’s Look at Facebook
We’re soon going to see how much the equity markets think Facebook is worth. Optimists see Facebook’s prospects as almost unbounded. After all, it has almost a billion users and...
May 10, 2012
Facebook Announces App Center, Accepting Sign Ups Now
Facebook has launched the beta version of an “App Center” that lets developers charge Facebook’s users to install their apps, TechCrunch says. The Facebook App Center will differ from Apple’s...
May 02, 2012
Technology Licensing: Evolving Antitrust Standards in the Smartphone and Other...
Paul Lugard, Apr 30, 2012 Antitrust review of business transactions involving intellectual property has never been entirely undisputed. On the one hand, there is a general belief that antitrust intervention...
April 30, 2012
A Roadmap to the Smartphone Patent Wars and FRAND Licensing
Apr 30, 2012 The smartphone industry today is characterized by a thicket of patents and wars based on those patents. Every day brings a new lawsuit or development between Apple,...
