During our interview, I asked Weiner about near-term drivers of the Internet economy.
Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy.
If America is to remain the global leader of the Internet economy, then it will need a wireless network that is up to the challenge.
Critics fear the over-regulation of the industry and say it will stifle innovation in the Internet economy, which depends on personal data as its currency.
"During the research we discovered very quickly that there is no approved way of measuring the internet economy, " says David Dean, a managing director at BCG.
Even though history--and even Forrester itself--says that predicting e-commerce growth is a dicey proposition, UPS has already made itself a vital part of the Internet economy.
The ethos of the internet economy also discouraged planning.
Each decision in its own way reflected the fierce determination of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his two Democratic colleagues to recast the agency whenever possible for a starring role in the Internet economy.
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The Internet Economy is big and getting bigger.
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Both the actual data roaming and net neutrality orders are being challenged, by the way, on the sensible and likely successful legal theory that the FCC was never given authority from Congress to sink its teeth so deeply into the Internet economy.
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Joel Kotkin of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, author of a forthcoming book on the geography of the information age, sees the favourite cities of the Internet economy, such as San Francisco and Seattle, as boutiques for the young, single and rich.
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Son, the 41-year-old founder and president of Softbank Corp. of Japan, is not as famous as his pals Bill Gates of Microsoft or Jerry Yang of Yahoo, but he has carved out a larger chunk of the Internet economy than either of them--larger than anyone else on the planet, he claims.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
In the 1990s it was the internet that drove the economy, and we all know what happened after that.
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And that was in the U.S., the convenience economy where the Internet is supposed to have entrenched itself into the consumer mindset.
This matters because while the rest of the European economy flounders, the Internet sector is one glimmer of hope.
British Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim warned that there needed to be a greater understanding of intellectual property, pointing out that the internet-based economy was worth almost 10% of a country's GDP.
Individuals or companies claim to own patents to ubiquitous features of the Internet-enabled economy such as using a virtual shopping cart online, updating smartphone apps, scrolling through pages, or serving ads in an online video.
Irrepressible consumer spending has helped the U.S. economy glide through two wars, recessions and the bursting of the Internet bubble--financial mayhem that should have brought the economy to its knees a long time ago.
Despite the Internet's importance to the local economy, by the end of last year nearly a third of the schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo still lacked high-speed connections to the Net.
It's the kind of stuff that is sucking a significant segment of the economy onto the Internet, even if profits remain elusive.
By boosting productivity, the Internet can lift the economy's safe speed limit before inflation starts to rise.
The government says the internet is a growing part of the UK economy - predicted to create 365, 000 jobs over the next five years.
In 1999, at the height of the internet boom, two "old economy"newspaper giants, the Washington Post Co. and the Tribune Co.
Or can we prevent a serious decline of the US or Chinese Internet sector or the US or Chinese economy in general?
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As more and more of the U.S. economy is tied to the Internet and technology, entrepreneurs, by necessity, need to be more involved in these policy conversations.
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" And he warned that the race is on to add more capacity, flatly stating, "if you shut down the Internet, you'd shut down the economy.
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