The music companies seem terrified of Napster and are willing to spend millions closing it down, and the regulators are very twitchy when it comes to the meeting of music and online interests. This all begs two rather important questions.
Watch out on Wednesday for an announcement from BSkyB that it will be closing Open, its interactive home shopping channel. The failure of Open raises questions about the viability of interactive television as a commercial medium.
The faces of some of the young entrepreneurs were suitably red when they crept back to their seats following some well-meaning advice from the presenter, Dasar CEO Alex Vieux. Each VC then posed one or two questions before deciding whether they...
The gains come from closing the inefficient. Yet this is the point at which I want to start asking more questions that so far go unanswered. That is another of the intriguing questions that are opened up.
Earlier this year eBay faced criticism for being slow to shut down sales of pirate software and for not acting proactively on closing such sales. Ask questions. Contact sellers with as many questions as you like regarding the quality of the item.
An LSE spokeswoman said, towards the close of business yesterday there was a technical issue within Infolect - the primary source of the LSE's real-time market data - which affected the ability of member companies to fully participate in...