In February, the FCC approved a plan to require Pay TV providers to adopt new technical standards for set-top boxes, one that would open multiple “Information Flows,” including licensed programming and the viewing habits of consumers, to unregulated third parties. While the Commission’s...

Open innovation allows large organizations to collaborate across a wide ecosystem of potential partners, reducing risk and increasing the potential for successful disruptive products and services. In China, appliance giant Haier has experienced significant success using its HOPE platform, which...

The Internet of Things is at risk of becoming a victim of its own popularity. Today, the IoT market is generating $200 billion in revenue, a number expected to triple in the next 10 years. But a rush to market by developers of consumer IoT products and services has been accompanied by shortcuts...

The U.S. federal government has brought major antitrust cases against Microsoft and Google. Regulators likely don’t expect to win either case outright, but the government doesn’t need to win these cases for them to have an impact. For one, an aggressive litigation strategy can provide a...

This article offers a critical reading of the Federal Communications Commission’s December 23, 2010 Report and Order entitled “Preserving the Open Internet.” In the end, the agency failed to produce any evidence of a need for regulatory intervention to “preserve” this robust ecosystem....

Some of the most significant transactions singled out recently for intensive federal review involve the communications industry. Unfortunately, communications providers face serious and potentially fatal problems of supply. Radio spectrum -- the chief input and most severe constraint on the...

The FCC has come to play an increasingly problematicâ€â€and largely unstructuredâ€â€role in the government’s review of transactions in the communications industry. Larry Downes (Larry Downes Consulting Group) & Geoffrey A. Manne (International Center for Law &...

Downsizing, outsourcing and decentralization are all symptoms of a fundamental change in corporate structure triggered by the ‘killer applications’ — revolutionary new goods or services — being spawned by the exponential growth potential of information technology. The secret of why they...