Organizations and Markets

Raising Rivals’ Costs

3 February 2009 at 8:58 am Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

| Peter Klein |

Last spring, Microsoft supported bills in the New York and Connecticut legislatures to impose strict regulations on businesses that gather personal information online for marketing purposes. The bills would hurt Microsoft, too, given that it also wants to sell advertisements based on customer behavior. But the self-inflicted wound may be worth it for the damage it causes Google.

Thanks to Jesse Walker for finding the passage in Wired’s very interesting story on the political economy of digital competition, which is just as nasty as in “old economy” industries. And don’t even get me started on Apple’s threat to go nuclear on Palm.

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