Digital Dominance

Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society. It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require new legal and conceptual tools if they are to adequately understand, and if necessary check the economic might of these companies. Equally, that we need to better comprehend the ability of such firms to control personal data and to shape the flow of news, information, and public opinion. In this volume, Martin Moore and Damian Tambini draw together the world's leading researchers to examine the digital dominance of technologies platforms and look at the evidence behind the rising tide of criticism of the tech giants. In fifteen chapters, the authors examine the economic, political, and social impacts of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, in order to understand the different facets of their power and how it is manifested. Digital Dominance is the first interdisciplinary volume on this topic, contributing to a conversation which is critical to maintaining the health of democracies across the world.

Boost your online presence and unlock the power of digital marketing with 'Digital Dominance: Mastering Online Marketing Strategies'. This comprehensive guide offers invaluable insights and practical tools to help you create compelling digital marketing campaigns that drive growth and engagement. 'Digital Dominance' explores the core components of effective online marketing, including search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, pay-per-click advertising, and more. It provides a detailed breakdown of each strategy, explaining how they work and how to implement them successfully. Beyond just explaining the strategies, the book provides a step-by-step guide to crafting your own digital marketing plan. It offers advice on setting goals, defining your target audience, choosing the right marketing channels, and measuring success. Each chapter includes real-world examples, practical exercises, and case studies, helping you apply the lessons to your own business. 'Digital Dominance' also addresses the challenges of online marketing, from managing your online reputation and ensuring data privacy, to staying up-to-date with the ever-changing digital landscape. It provides actionable tips and solutions to navigate these challenges, ensuring you can maintain your digital dominance. Whether you're a small business owner looking to boost your online presence, a marketing professional wanting to update your skills, or a student studying digital marketing, 'Digital Dominance: Mastering Online Marketing Strategies' is your essential guide to the world of online marketing. Unlock your potential for digital dominance today.

Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society. It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require new legal and conceptual tools if they are to adequately understand, and if necessary check the economic might of these companies. Equally, that we need to better comprehend the ability of such firms to control personal data and to shape the flow of news, information, and public opinion. In this volume, Martin Moore and Damian Tambini draw together the world's leading researchers to examine the digital dominance of technologies platforms and look at the evidence behind the rising tide of criticism of the tech giants. In fifteen chapters, the authors examine the economic, political, and social impacts of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, in order to understand the different facets of their power and how it is manifested. Digital Dominance is the first interdisciplinary volume on this topic, contributing to a conversation which is critical to maintaining the health of democracies across the world.

"The market size and strength of the major digital platform companies has invited international concern about how such firms should best be regulated to serve the interests of wider society, with a particular emphasis on the need for new anti-trust legislation. Using a normative innovation systems approach, this paper investigates how current anti-trust models may insufficiently address the value-extracting features of existing data-intensive and platform-oriented industry behaviour and business models. To do so, we employ the concept of economic rents to investigate how digital platforms create and extract value. Two forms of rent are elaborated: 'network monopoly rents' and 'algorithmic rents.' By identifying such rents more precisely, policymakers and researchers can better direct regulatory investigations, as well as broader industrial and innovation policy approaches, to shape the features of platform-driven digital markets"--

When technologies, products, and services converge in radical, creative new ways, a killer app emerges-a new application so powerful that it transforms industries, redefines markets, and annihilates the competition. The steam engine, the cotton gin, and the Model T were all killer apps of their time. Today's killer apps spring from the digital realm: the personal computer, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. Tempted by the promise of such devastating power, companies large and small, from vast multinationals to lean entrepreneurial start-ups, are remaking themselves into organizations that nurture killer apps rather than succumb to them. How is it done? In this groundbreaking new book, strategists Downes and Mui identify the twelve fundamental design principles for building killer apps and offer a progressive guide to transforming your company into a place where killer apps are born. Unleashing the Killer App provides the tools, the techniques, and the proof that you need to incubate the killer app within your organization--and perhaps even release one.

Boost your online presence and unlock the power of digital marketing with 'Digital Dominance: Mastering Online Marketing Strategies'. This comprehensive guide offers invaluable insights and practical tools to help you create compelling digital marketing campaigns that drive growth and engagement. 'Digital Dominance' explores the core components of effective online marketing, including search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, pay-per-click advertising, and more. It provides a detailed breakdown of each strategy, explaining how they work and how to implement them successfully. Beyond just explaining the strategies, the book provides a step-by-step guide to crafting your own digital marketing plan. It offers advice on setting goals, defining your target audience, choosing the right marketing channels, and measuring success. Each chapter includes real-world examples, practical exercises, and case studies, helping you apply the lessons to your own business. 'Digital Dominance' also addresses the challenges of online marketing, from managing your online reputation and ensuring data privacy, to staying up-to-date with the ever-changing digital landscape. It provides actionable tips and solutions to navigate these challenges, ensuring you can maintain your digital dominance. Whether you're a small business owner looking to boost your online presence, a marketing professional wanting to update your skills, or a student studying digital marketing, 'Digital Dominance: Mastering Online Marketing Strategies' is your essential guide to the world of online marketing. Unlock your potential for digital dominance today.

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.