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    Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire?

    By: Karen Webster on April 21st, 2010

    There’s a lot of speculation about the recent move by

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    Once You Tip, There’s no Tipping Back

    By: Catalyst Code on March 11th, 2010

    “Network effect” strategy – once you tip the scale, growth is (hopefully) soon to follow. At least that’s what long time platform master Microsoft has experienced and what

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    The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry

    By: Catalyst Code on December 8th, 2009

    The Review of Network Economics Journal features “The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry” by David S. Evans.
    This article considers the Internet-based technologies that are revolutionizing the global advertising industry and the public policy issues they engender. Will a single ad platform emerge or will several remain viable? What are the consequences of alternative […]

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    How will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?

    By: Catalyst Code on December 1st, 2009

    The Federal Trade Commission will hold two days of workshops today and tomorrow, December 1st and 2nd to explore how the Internet has affected journalism.
    Watch David Evans present live at 4:30 PM EST Today, December 1st.
    The workshop will assemble representatives from print, online, broadcast and cable news organizations, academics, consumer advocates, bloggers, and other […]

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    Will the Web Kill Free TV and Should We Care

    By: David Evans on November 15th, 2009

    It costs a bloody fortune to produce a television series like Mad Men. All those cast members, the period costumes, the smart writers. Right now production companies make these efforts profitable by doing deals with networks like A&E that sell advertising spots. Many of us are recording our favorite shows and watching them later, […]

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    The Effect of Card Acceptance on Sales: The Case of Taxicabs in New York

    By: David Evans on November 9th, 2009

    Does taking plastic get people to spend more money? The card networks certainly think so and have often touted increased sales as one of the reasons why merchants should accept plastic and be happy to pay for it. My skeptical economist colleagues question this. They argue that the main effect of accepting cards is to […]

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    The Invisible Engine Wars: Amazon and PayPal’s App Strategy; Will MasterCard and Visa Fight Too?

    By: David Evans on November 9th, 2009

    Amazon and PayPal have both announced aggressive efforts to persuade developers to use their payment technologies. Each has opened up a gateway into their payment platforms. They are providing developers with tools for writing applications that use their payment technologies. And they are “evangelizing” their payment platforms to encourage lots of developers […]

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    Mobile App Wars’ Impact on the Payments Biz

    By: David Evans on November 6th, 2009

    The application wars in the mobile phone business are heating up. They will result in significant threats and opportunities for the payments biz.
    Just recently the Apple iPhone topped more than 100,000 apps. It was just two years ago, on October 17th, that Steve Jobs announced that Apple was going to allow third-party developers to build […]

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    HBS Summit Says Social will Soon Ring the Register

    By: Karen Webster on October 12th, 2009

    I was part of an interesting panel discussion on Saturday on what social networking means for business and what the future holds. This panel was part of the Harvard Business School’s African American Alumni Associations Annual Leadership Summit and included Kevin Colleran from Facebook, Laela Sturdy from YouTube/Google, Juliette Powell, entrepreneur and author of 33 […]

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    The Welch Interchange Fee Bill to Consumers

    By: David Evans on October 9th, 2009

    Last Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Financial Services on the “The Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009” sponsored by Representative Welch. The Act would allow merchants to impose surcharges on cards, prevent card networks broadly defined from charging higher interchange fees for reward cards, require card networks to disclose publicly […]

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