Platform Work: How the Proposed EU Rules Could Impact Millions of Self-employed Europeans
Being reclassified as an employee doesn’t necessarily improve working conditions for freelancers. Many important benefits of freelance work could be […]
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Sizing Up the Creator Economy
The Internet has empowered creators—writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other content creators—to showcase their creativity. The “disintermediation” of traditional publishing houses […]
FTC Hearings #3: Multi-Sided Platforms and Competitor Acquisitions
From October 15-17, the FTC held the third in its series of hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the […]
Fortnite: A Tale of Two Operating Systems
Fortnite is the number one game on the planet. If you think that means that Fortnite’s developer Epic Games has […]
Why Online Platforms Lose Sleep Over Disruption
A new paper by economist David Evans takes aim at the notion that Internet platforms are, in the words of […]
Android, iOS and Market Power – What Does Mobile Platform Competition Really Look Like? – Part II
A while back I wrote about the European Commission’s competition investigation into the Android operating system (OS) and today’s mobile […]
