From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Is Prosper prospering?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on January 28, 2010 • View Comments

Prosper’s lending statistics for the end of 2009 are in and is once again lending is on the rise.

A Modest Proposal to Improve the State of the Union Speech

by Jerry Ellig on January 27, 2010 • View Comments

The State of the Union Speech, and the opposition party’s resposne, would be more productive if the audience held their applause until the end.

A New Meaning for “Holding Pattern”

by Gabriel Okolski on January 26, 2010 • View Comments

While consumers have expressed disgust at Ryanair’s proposed fees for onboard lavatory use, such fees may actually turn out to be beneficial for most of the airline’s passengers.

There’s no reason an NYT paywall won’t work

by Jerry Brito on January 22, 2010 • View Comments

Contra the digerati, there’s no economic reason the NYT could not segment its customers and erect a paywall.

The internet Bill of Rights?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on January 21, 2010 • View Comments

Secretary of State Clinton has outlined essential internet freedoms that go beyond the Bill of Rights and into universal service.

Regulatory Whack-A-Mole, Part II

by Jerry Ellig on January 21, 2010 • View Comments

Recent contorversies over early termination fees for wireless devices show that policymakers still don’t understand the limits of what they can accomplish.

After the Quake

by Gabriel Okolski on January 19, 2010 • View Comments

With record charitable gifts from Internet and text messaging sources for the earthquake in Haiti, donors ought to be careful as to where they give their money.

Publicly traded but closely held

by Jerry Brito on January 18, 2010 • View Comments

Google’s recent China move is not about protecting its business interests, in fact quite the opposite. It possible because the founders have majority control of the company.