From the category archives:

Competition

Holistic regulation of P2P lending?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on March 11, 2010 • Comments

Prosper Marketplace CEO Chris Larsen welcomes a holistic regulator to encourage and support the peer-to-peer lending industry. Is such a regulator possible?

Thoughts on alternative lending

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 25, 2010 • Comments

Alternative lending forms have existed since lending began. Their specific models, practices and success may vary but all are flexible and individualized, providing opportunity to those left out of traditional lending.

Competition and patience

by Jerry Brito on February 22, 2010 • Comments

Market processes–especially those surrounding new technology and distribution channels–can be less than instantaneous, but they have a way of ultimately conforming to economic reality.

Railroading Broadband?

by Jerry Ellig on February 18, 2010 • Comments

Can broadband policymakers learn from more than 100 years of American experience with railroad regulation?

What’s Behind Google’s Broadband Plan?

by Gabriel Okolski on February 16, 2010 • Comments

Is Google’s high-speed broadband network plan an entrepreneurial, competitive foray into the market or an elaborate lobbying attempt to secure government funding in the future?

A Little Competition Goes a Long Way

by Gabriel Okolski on February 11, 2010 • Comments

Increased competition in the e-book reader market may offer several lessons for Google’s book scanning settlement with authors.

Is Prosper prospering?

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

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

Regulatory Whack-A-Mole, Part II

by Jerry Ellig on January 21, 2010 • Comments

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

Publicly traded but closely held

by Jerry Brito on January 18, 2010 • 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.