Paul Zwillenberg of BCG says that entrepreneurs building a digital business are outperforming rivals who do not embrace the web economy.
But if the report's predictions are correct, then speaking of a "web economy" will soon sound about as comical as speaking of an "electricity economy".
Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy Web site says that rising oil and gasoline prices have not necessarily pulled up the price of other goods.
But with an inexperienced new CEO, a badly botched new privacy policy, a marked decline in public trust and a looming EU antitrust investigation, it is hard to see Google dominating today's Web 3.0 world from the same unchallenged position as it once controlled the Web 2.0 economy.
With a growing need to generate magazine sales and Web traffic in a softening economy, media outlets are increasingly turning to stars that are both much-loved and highly reliable.
By 2011, as consumer Web IPO-mania grew in advance of the Facebook IPO, Mr. Mason began saying his goal was to make Groupon the Amazon.com Inc. of local commerce, bringing online the physical retail economy that other Web companies have tried to tap without success.
While other publishers have mainly put their old-economy content on the Web, AsiaOne is starting to look like a real portal.
Three decades later Maloney and others have challenged this notion with the voluntarist school of thought, which views the informal economy as a complex web of heterogeneous activities that are intimately related to the formal sector.
Many store chains that enjoyed a second straight banner year of growth through their Web sites in 2006 appear ready to hit some headwinds this year, thanks to a lack of cutting-edge Internet marketing and continued difficulties integrating store and Web businesses, not to mention a sputtering economy that's got more consumers watching their wallets.
Companies born on the Web were the first to see the possibilities offered by an economy that runs on digital data.
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Hiring is back in style after a long hiatus, thanks to signs of an upturn in the U.S. economy, as well as the continued boom in web, mobile and social media startups.
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The bottom line is that this economy, at its root, is built on a web of scientific knowledge from physics to chemistry to biology.
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In an unprecedented move for a major Internet economy, the government of Egypt appears to have cut off web access for most of its citizens.
The Internet is currently in what Gates called Phase 2, in which users view one site at a time, use the Web mostly to read information and remain chained to keyboards, while the economy's main stage remains offline.
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In talking to Maria, it became evident to me that the informal economy, far from being homogeneous, is heterogeneous, comprising a web of different activities and processes.
Just as Apple has managed phenomenal growth through semi-anonymous business relationships that radically reduce business friction (300, 000 developer relationships and counting), the same principle of using the web to reduce business friction in copyright transactions should make for a more nimble economy and faster growth.
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"With today's economy taking a turn for the worse, it's especially important for Web technology to help consumers solve real-world problems, " says Bessemer's David Cowan.
But as the U.S. economy sputters and companies transfer their IT needs from the desktop to virtualized data centers and to the Web, one computer giant is moving its enterprise products in a new direction: slimmer and cheaper.
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