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The article focuses on the efforts to expand Internet infrastructure to developing countries in 2015. Topics include technology companies' plans to use satellites to offer Internet access to developing countries, the cost of developing satellite-Internet technology, and the satellite plans of Greg Wyler, founder of the communications company OneWeb.

Discusses the economic impact of the Internet. Benefits from the Internet over those from information technology in general; How business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce cuts costs for companies; Argument that the Internet might force inflation down and support economic growth; Increase in marketing efficiency from global competition.

Introduces a series of articles dealing with the effect of globalization on taxation. Role of the Internet in globalization, including the ramification of Internet commerce on taxation; Possible definition of globalization and fears of various governments of globalization and tax competition; Difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion; Decline of the nation-state and the effect on taxation; Questions concerning the health of competition between governments.

Discusses a proposed merger between America Online Inc. (AOL) and Time Warner Inc. How stock prices and various media companies will be affiliated; `Old media' links to `new media' companies in the United States; Effect of the Internet on media companies and the distribution of media; Reasons for the merger, including AOL attempt to gain access to a cable network.

The article focuses on the growing centralization of the Internet. It provides the history of how the Internet lost its decentralized innocence. The influence of the power of Microsoft and its Windows software on the Internet is discussed, as well as the impact of the Internet on the economics of all sorts. Also discussed are the technical changes that created an opportunity for a few companies to become the Internet's memory.

Discusses Internet gambling, as of 1999. Statistics on its predicted revenues for 1999; Attempts to regulate Internet gambling; How it removes the possibility of local regulation; Complexities of gambling legislation.

Discusses technology and banking. How banks can market products more effectively with technology; The collation and interpretation of data for credit risk; The effect of technology on wholesale and investment banking; How the Internet will decrease the profit margins in retails banking; The concern over electronic money.

Comments on investing in the stocks of Internet companies. View that Internet stocks are overvalued; Forecasted growth of electronic commerce; Percentage of retail sales accounted for by electronic commerce; Profits of Internet companies; Why retailing on the Internet is difficult.

Examines the growing links between the entertainment industry and the computer industry. Role of the telecommunication companies in the distribution of digital entertainment; Overlap of the entertainment and computer industries regarding the Internet; Opportunity that digital television provides for computer companies.

Discusses electronic commerce via the Internet. Its difference from other methods of electronic commerce like credit cards, automatic teller machines, and electronic data interchange; The quiet doubling of the Internet over the years; Its potential to reshape companies, create communities, eliminate geography, and revitalize the art of letter writing; The shift in power from merchant to consumer; Ways in which online merchants can differentiate themselves from physical-world competitors.

Examines economic questions surrounding the Internet. Fact that increasing numbers of users are bypassing the public Net, in order to avoid bottlenecks; Reasons for the increasing popularity of corporate intranets and extranets; Discussion of the academics' plan to set up Internet II, a network solely for scholarly use; Question of how or whether the Internet's economic model should be changed.

Looks at the possibilities of electronic money and warns that it may cause problems for traditional banks and regulators. Lee Stein and First Virtual Holdings; Why the Internet has so far been a cashless society; Discussion of e-cash; More.

The article discusses the economic benefits of strengthening mobile-phone and internet penetration in poor African countries including Kenya. Topics include the impact of an increase in mobile-phone penetration on a country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth per person, other innovations enabled by mobile phones such as mobile money, and the findings of a study which looked at African economies before and after they got internet connections between 2006 and 2014.

The article discusses the role of technology in building Africa's manufacturing economy. Topics include the decline in Africa's share of the developing world's manufacturing in 2014, the reason cited for the trend such as the higher labour costs and capital cost of employing a worker in Kenya and a study suggesting the increased productivity of employees at African firms using the internet. Also cited are the efforts of Flutterwave and Paystack to build electronic payment systems in the region.

The article discusses the role of technology in addressing agricultural market failures in Africa caused by poor communications. Topics include the introduction by MasterCard of a 2KUZE electronic commerce system to virtually link farmers and traders using mobile phones, the significant role of mobile phones and computers in sharing agricultural information, and the emergence of internet-connected sensors in combination with mobile financial services.

The article discusses the poor performance of rural areas in Great Britain due in part to government policy. Topics discussed include the struggle of businesses in the countryside to get into the online economy, increase in the proportion of British households with an Internet connection since 1999 and the decline in agriculture and total income from farming.

The article discusses the legal orders of Judge Marcel Montalvão to temporarily suspend the web resource WhatApp in Brazil, with a particular focus on the suspension's impact on business and commerce in the country.

The article discusses a September 23, 2015 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in favor of activist Max Schrems against the online social network firm Facebook Inc. Other topics include a 2000 safe-harbour pact for internet data between the U.S. and the European Union (EU), alleged spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), and the economic impact of restrictions on data flow to preserve privacy rights.

The article considers the introduction and sale of over 1000 new generic top-level domain names (GTLD), the part of an Internet domain name following the period, by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN). The introduction of GLTDs in alphabets other than Latin such as Arabic, Chinese and Russian is noted. Purchases of new GTLDs by corporations including Apple Inc., Ford Motor Co. and Amazon.com are examined.

The article discusses the adverse economic impact of the Internet on the sales of media companies as of August 2013, reporting that increasing digital sales of music, movies, and Internet content is helping some companies recuperate. Topics include video and audio streaming, the television movie "Sharknado," the newspaper industry, and electronic book sales.

The article examines the Internet in China, focusing on the Internet industry and electronic commerce. It is noted that China has the world's largest population of Internet users. A trend is considered in which many successful Chinese Internet industry companies have adapted previously successful creations of Western companies to have more appeal to Chinese consumers. The company Taobao, which operates an Internet auction site modeled on that of the firm eBay, is among the examples cited.

The article looks at how mobile Internet access will influence the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia (BRICI). Examples of how the economics of BRICI countries will benefit from wireless communications are presented. The author assumes that most poor people from BRICI countries will use the Internet through their mobile telephones, since many cannot afford a personal computer.

The article examines efforts to provide Internet access to developing countries. Access to cellular telephone systems is forecast to be effectively universal by 2020. The increasing ability of cellular telephones to provide Internet access to users and improvements in so-called netbook low-cost laptop computers could lead to rapid increases in Internet access.

Argues that Internet companies are subject to the same rules as companies rooted in the old economy. Opinion that it is right to judge the performance of Internet firms on such criteria as the soundness of their business plans and prospects for sales; Conclusion that regulation by the United States government should be decided on the same criteria, whether online or offline; Effect of the Internet on businesses.

Discusses a business strategy unveiled by Reuters on February 8, 2000. Details of the strategy, which plans to restructure the company's core business around the Internet. History of Reuters and its various business, including its news service and an investment fund; Threats that the Internet poses to Reuters' news service network; Plans by Reuters to retail its products over the Internet; Possible problems that strategy raises, including the effect of a retail business on its wholesale business.

Discusses the growth trend in contract manufacturing as of 2000. Statistics on the growth of and consolidation within the contract manufacturing industry; Involvement of contract manufacturers in the design of products, purchasing of components and in distribution and repair; Role of the Internet in allowing the separation of innovation from production; Predictions as to the future direction of the contract manufacturing growth trend.

Discusses efforts by various financial companies to market bonds electronically over the Internet, such as Warburg Dillon Read, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith Barney, the World Bank and others. Experience of finance companies with the equity market and the growth of electronic commerce of equities; Closed nature of the fixed-income markets in the United States and concerns over the lack of openness by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The article focuses on the benefits of electronic commerce in 2015. Topics include how electronic commerce increases consumer choice and the benefits of electronic commerce for the vendor. Information is provided on 'long tails,' which describes the expansion in the variety of products available for sale online.

Discusses Internet retailing in Europe, in light of the launch of BOL, the Internet division of Bertelsmann. Amazon.com's move into Europe; Cautiousness of Amazon's move; Other competitions in European Internet commerce; The difficulties involved with launching an Internet website.

Discusses the consolidation in the ownership of radio stations. Reasons for the trend; Statistics on the trend; Threat presented to the industry by the Internet; Growth in radio advertising; Outlook for radio.

Discusses the state of European Internet shares and companies, as of September 1999. Volatility of Internet stocks worldwide; Early 1999 prices of Internet stocks in Europe; Their decline; Effect of venture capital on stock prices; Prediction on the growth of the technology market in Europe; Possible limitations.

Profiles rock star David Bowie, as of 1999. His career and image incarnations; His attempts to build a media empire; Various deals involving Bowie; His interest in computers and the Internet; His announcement that his next album will be available over the Internet two weeks before it reaches stores.

Discusses the future of Internet commerce, as of August 1999. Former predictions about the domination of Internet retailers; How those predictions have not come true; Statistics on number of retailers with a web presence; Predictions on the number of retailers moving and the amount of business to be transacted over the web.

Examines the status of stock exchanges around the world in the summer of 1999. How the rise of electronic trading of securities via electronic communications networks (ECN) has impacted exchanges; Efforts by exchanges like the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to move from mutual ownership to shareholder ownership; The role of ECNs and the Internet in transforming trading; The changing definition of what a stock exchange is.

Reports on economic conditions in Germany. The rising popularity of remote trading and stockbroking; More investment in shares, less in bonds and bank accounts; High Internet use as compared to other European countries; Online brokers in Germany, such as ConSors; The impact of online brokers on banks such as Deutsche Bank.

Focuses on the theory of the new economy to explain the performance of the United States economy. The paradigm of the information technology (IT) revolution; Changes to business practices due to the Internet and IT; Rising productivity centered in the computer manufacturing industry; Very low unemployment and inflation rates; Question of whether the revolution predicted by IT enthusiasts has happened yet.

Reports on business over the Internet in Asia. How Asia's Internet business is different from electronic commerce in the West; Business-to-business e-commerce or e-business being the greater part of online transactions; Jack Ma Yun's exploitation of the Internet's potential in China.

Argues that Internet stocks are overvalued. Inexperience of Internet traders, who do not know how to value stocks; Rapid change of the Internet; View that Internet companies are unlikely to earn profits to justify the price of their stocks; How a collapse of Internet shares could affect the United States economy.

Discusses difficulties faced by financial services who wish to reach foreign customers through the Internet. Allure of Internet sales; Example of on-line broker E*trade of Palo Alto, California; Regulations by Britain's Securities and Investments Board; Three options for resolving Internet regulation conflicts relating to financial services.

Informs that a lucky few high-technology firms are likely to profit from the Internet, and they are Cisco Systems, 3COM and Bay Networks. Firms that make the gadgetry that the Internet is built from are benefitting, as Internet use continues to surge; Network equipment deals in the nine months to September 1995; Reasons for the deals.

The article focuses on the television broadcasting industry in the U.S. in 2014. Topics include the television network HBO's plans to offer services to Internet users, the satellite television company DISH's plans to begin selling less expensive channel bundles, and how the television industry has been impacted by the Internet.

The article looks at the financial technology (fin-tech) industry as of fall 2013. It discusses the industry's growth, citing businesses founded in recent years including American money transfer company Xoom and British short-term loan company Wonga. It analyzes the effect such companies and the growing role of the Internet and cloud computing may have on traditional financial services firms.

The author discusses the impact of the Internet on labor productivity and the work-life balance of some employees as of 2013, arguing that firms must invest in increasing productivity to balance out the economic impact of workforce declines that will be caused by the retirement of members of the Baby Boom generation. Topics include self-employment and technological innovations involving computers.

The article focuses on how the Internet has opened income streams for 'old media,' which includes the music, television, and book industries. Topics include the popularity of mobile devices among consumers, the introduction of streaming services in old media industries, and the rate of digital media usage in the U.S. per day.

The article examines the economic dominance of the digital currency Bitcoin as of April 2013. Topics include how a hard limit on the number of circulating Bitcoins helps regulate their prices, why many financial regulators are concerned that the currency is being used among drug dealers, and why digital currency is not a long-term threat to hard currencies.

The article focuses on the economic impact of the Internet on people's lives. It states the amount of internet activity that registered in gross domestic product such as internet advertising understates its contribution to welfare by excluding consumer surplus that accrues to users. It mentions a study by web-advertising industry group IAB Europe that estimates households would pay 50 dollars a month each for services currently acquired for free, and talks about internet search time savings.

The author offers forecasting on the impact of the Internet and mobile computing on economics, politics and government. The effects of those innovations on urban life are cited as examples of what is stated will be a complex relationship dominated by the demands of Internet users for free access, the demand for control by governments and the desire for profits of business enterprises.

The article considers the high-speed broadband communication system service offered by EPB, the government-owned electric utility of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The utility's installation of a fiber-optic cable network to deliver Internet access as well as television and telephone service to residents is considered. The economic implications of the system and its use by municipal government are discussed.

The article looks at the economic upturn of Internet businesses in 2011. The author cautions investors against reckless financial risk-taking based on perceived improvements in the technology market. The stock market bubble of the late 1990s is discussed, noting how initial public offering prices may have inflated prices.

The article discusses a set of ideas propounded by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams in their books "Wikinomics" and "Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World." Tapscott and Williams study the ways in which developments in economics have been affected by the rise of the internet. Examples such as independent bloggers providing news coverage of political violence in developing countries are cited.