Anthony J. Pennings, PhD

WRITINGS ON DIGITAL ECONOMICS, ENERGY STRATEGIES, AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS

Controversies in Intellectual Property – The Business Method Patent

From banking to manufacturing and retailing, business methods are increasingly providing a competitive advantage to companies and understandably they seek to limit others from using the same methods.

E-Commerce’s Billion Dollar Mondays Still Mark Holiday Shopping Season

Reflecting increasing consumer confidence in a recovering U.S. economy, online shopping for the 2012 holiday season is off to a strong start.[1] According to web analytics company Comscore, some $30 billion has been spent online by mid-December 2012, a 13-percent increase over the same period in 2011. Shopping from home and shopping from the work […]

Visiting the Future of the Panama Canal

A relevant question for 2022 is whether shipping ports have prepared sufficiently for increased container traffic? Have ports such as Baltimore, Charleston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and Virginia, modernized their facilities to become “big ship ready”? Ships anchored offshore, containers piling up on docks, long-haul trucks queuing for hours to get to the containers suggest they have not.

Online Media Business Models: The Intercontinental Interview

Recently I was contacted by Stanislav Serdyukov, a second year Master’s program “Media Management” student in Moscow, Russia at the School of Business and Political Journalism at National Research University – Higher School of Economics. He is working on the master’s project with the theme “The Online Media Business Models and their Transformations” and wanted […]

LinkedIn Social Media IPO Raises Questions of a Global Internet Bubble

Linkedin and the recent slew of Chinese Internet IPOs have both revitalized the IPO market and raised concerns about a new “dot-com” bubble. This time, though, it’s global. LinkedIn, the social media site for professionals was priced at $45 last Wednesday May 18, 2011 and closed Friday at over a $100 a share. The social […]

Florida’s Creative Class Thesis and the Global Economy

Richard Florida’s works on the importance of creativity in the global economy has received mixed reviews but stand as an impressive body of work.

Global E-Commerce Report Focuses on Logistics

It’s one thing to have your customer peruse your site, pick a product, and pay for it; it’s another to have it delivered quickly and safely. The recent Global E-Commerce Delivery Report 2011 focuses on the latter, getting your physical product to the customer. The report was produced by the Hamburg, Germany market research firm […]

Seeing from Space: Cold War Origins to Google Earth

President Eisenhower had been secretly coordinating the space program as part of the Cold War since the early 1950s. He had become accustomed to the valuable photographic information obtained from spy planes and considered satellites a crucial new Cold War technology. The D-Day invasion of Europe, which he had managed as the head of the […]

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    Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and strategic communications.

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