El mercado de videojuegos da como ganador a Playstation 4

La guerra de las consolas ha terminado, y tenemos un claro ganador The Economist La sede central de PlayStation en San Mateo, California. Los comunicados de noviembre pasado de Sony PlayStation 4 y Xbox de Microsoft One fueron vistos como el último hurra de las consolas juegos hogareños de alta gama. Las versiones anteriores de cada dispositivo fueron duramente golpeados por la baja tecnología Nintendo Wii. Y los juegos más simples jugadas en los teléfonos inteligentes y las tabletas están ganando popularidad rápidamente. La estrategia de Sony era hacer su nueva consola de un dispositivo más sofisticado, especializada orientada a los jugadores empedernidos. Microsoft se fue a la inversa, por lo que la nueva Xbox un dispositivo multimedia...

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Cómo Silicon Valley puede matar el emprendedorismo

How Silicon Valley can kill your startup In the last year I have lived in San Francisco, Toronto, New York City and Vancouver, where our team currently resides. Our team comes from a small city in Canada, called Saskatoon, where startups are few and far between. Dealflow, angel investing, strategic partners, mentors and basic startup information is scarce. The angel investing group that once was has disbanded and is just getting started again. The fabric and tools necessary to scale, be disruptive and understand the true ideology of what it takes to build a startup, dramatically pales in comparison to the ‘Valley’ and ‘Alleys’ of the world. It was evident that if our team wanted to build a start up, grow past a regional market and...

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Antimonopolio en Mercados de Plataformas Multilaterales

The Antitrust Economics of Multi-Sided Platform Markets David S. Evans† Multi-sided platforms coordinate the demands of distinct groups of customers who need each other in some way. Dating clubs, for example, enable men and women to meet each other; magazines provide a way for advertisers to find an audience; and computer operating system vendors provide software that applications users and applications developers can use together. When devising pricing and investment strategies, multi-sided platforms must account for interactions among the demands of multiple groups of customers. In theory, the optimal price to customers on one side of the platform is not based on a markup formula such as the Lerner condition, and price does not track...

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