Among the recent attempts at developing a stable electronic payment system, Bitcoin is one of the few that shows actual progress in establishing its status as real money. Despite the progress it is making, due to inherent price volatility and instability, Bitcoin is still considered as more of a...

The Internet enables businesses to acquire a great deal of reference information, including the price in the open markets, for estimating appropriate prices of the assets to sell off. However, companies may be unsure whether this information is useful for their pricing strategies. In particular,...

The objective of this study is to examine the effects of regulation policy on online gambling, an increasingly popular type of entertainment in the online game industry. Prior information systems (IS) studies on online game focus primarily on user behavior. However, there is a growing need to...

NHN Corp. is a top Internet portal operator in Korea. The Internet giant was created by merging Naver, the search engine company, with, Hangame, the game portal company, in early 2000s. The merger was evaluated as one of the most successful M&A s in Korea. Large user base and good cash flow of...