The Web has become a major laboratory of what consumers search, comment upon, and purchase in the real economy. This paper leverages a mash-up of online Google search and of social media (Twitter, Facebook, and others) to “nowcast” the relative product sales performance of telecoms companies...

Digital convergence is quickly leading to various telecommunications and media sourcing triple play services of voice, television and internet. This article describes the extent to which bundling strategies have been recently deployed by access providers, and their impact on competition in...