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Amsterdam Court ruling on the Tom Cabinet case:”Selling second hand e-books through the Tom Kabinet website may for now continue” A month ago we wrote about the second hand e-book site of Tom Kabinet which was accused of copyright infringement and supporting e-book piracy by the Dutch Trade Publishers Association GAU. Although odds were against […] Read more »
According to the Dutch benefits and employment agency UWV, employment in the Dutch financial sector will drop from 249 thousand jobs this year to 234 thousand jobs in 2019, a loss of 15 thousand jobs. From 2006 to 2013 the sector already shed 28 thousand jobs. The main culprits, according to the UWV, are the […] Read more »
In the recent past The METISfiles reported on traditional content publishers. We think they are an endangered species because they don’t seem to be able to come up with digital publishing value-add. And now there is Tom Kabinet, another challenger to the publishing industry. In the world of books an e-book format is considered a […] Read more »
In our previous blog The METISfiles argued that charting the Dutch digital economy should be done in a much broader context than just measuring end-user value of digital products and services. But new digital services based on the principle of sharing, as practiced for instance by Uber, Lyft, AirBNB, Taskrabbit, SpullenDelen or Thuisafgehaald, pose a […] Read more »
The METISfiles presented at the official opening of HP’s second cloud data center in the Benelux in Mechelen this week. HP has been busy building out its cloud data center footprint across the world. In the Benelux customers now have the opportunity to source HP’s managed private and virtual cloud services from twin data centers […] Read more »
Last year The METISfiles reported on the ongoing transformation from a traditional to a digital economy. But as the term ‘Digital Economy’ is increasingly used as a desired direction of our economic destiny we still have not much of a clue what it actually is. Most publications on this topic refer to a narrow concept […] Read more »