Why Big Tech is not Tech at All »

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21 October 2015 | Stefan Herwig

A Critical Look at the #DigitalSingleMarket strategy Part 2 The brand value studies refer to GAFA as “technology companies”, and US bloggers simply call them “Big Tech”. But not only does each indi... »

The Mystery of the Digital Economy: Where Is the Money? Where Are the Jobs? »

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20 October 2015 | Stefan Herwig

A Critical Look at the #DigitalSingleMarket strategy Part 1 Time and time again we were promised innovation, progress and not least added value from the digital economy. But now economists are incr... »

The Never Ending Personality Test… Featuring YOU ! »

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9 October 2015 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

In the early days of internet online personality test websites promised to deliver a telling assessment of one’s IQ based on a few simple multiple choice questions. The results were formulaic and m... »

“Copyright Reform Is Where Commissions Go to Die” »

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7 May 2015 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

The Digital Single Market is the European Commission’s grand plan to fix jobs and growth. Netopia readers may have followed this writers’ analyses on jobs and growth, from the leaked documents and com... »

The Revolution Beyond 140 Characters »

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27 November 2014 | Mariam Kirollos, Blogger and democracy activist

A Pharaoh was the most important and powerful person in the kingdom of Ancient Egypt. He or she (but mostly he) was the head of the government and the highest rank of everything, including religious t... »

The European Internet »

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13 November 2014 | Jane Whyatt, Journalist

Hundreds of European digital startups are working together across national boundaries to create an 'alternative internet for Europe', away from the prying eyes of American and British intelligence age... »

Weblining – Why eating at Nando’s could cost you your mortgage »

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26 June 2014 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Weblining sometimes called Redlining is a potentially discriminatory practice of offering preferential products and services on account of a person's standing, or behaviour on the internet. Nando... »

The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 2) »

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12 June 2014 | Birgit Hütten, external contributor

Robots and the Internet of Things The vast majority of machines is of highly anonymous nature and, like background music, has crept into our lives almost without anybody noticing. They include refr... »

The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 1) »

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10 June 2014 | Birgit Hütten, external contributor

“The truck regarded them calmly, its receptors blank and impassive. It was doing its job. The planet-wide network of automatic factories was smoothly performing the task imposed on it five years befor... »

Spawning a Monster – Sharing Economy Disruption Examined »

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9 May 2014 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

In 1980 futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that consumers and producers would merge into prosumers. He might be proven right by the sharing economy. Start-ups are forming a peer-to-peer economy using... »