Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Save the Date for the SMS Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Palermo, Italy, May 21-23 2025 Title: The Strategic Role of Business in Addressing Unsolved Grand Challenges: Firms, Platforms and Ecosystems. Date: May 21–23, 2025 Location: Palermo, Italy, LUMSA

Elon Musk has complied after all and provided a list of X Holding Corp shareholders who helped the billionaire buy Twitter. And who do you think turned out to be the investors of the X platform? That's right, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich. Now it is absolutely obvious where Musk

Below is a site for those who want to understand US v Google 2. This case could change everything in tech. Hat tip to Jason Kint. usvgoogleads.com

Web browsers are the biggest market you never thought about. In a new paper (with Jérémie Haese), we study what happened in the open source community when Microsoft moved to Chromium as the core technology for their web browser Edge.

Digitalization requires a continuous customer relationship, value delivery and monetization. Systems engineering needs to focus on optimizing total lifetime value, maximizing the amount of functionality that can be updated post-deployment. janbosch.com/blog/index.php…

I’ve been using Google‘s new AI assistant called notebookLM. I am blown away. I can upload research papers and then have a conversation, asking for key points, limitations, extensions, etc. This will significantly change the way I do research. notebooklm.google

The happiest countries in the world tend to have the most heavy metal bands. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/political-bi…

X/Twitter user numbers now down by almost a third over the last year in the UK, and by almost a fifth in the US.

September Newsletter is out! 🌊 In this newsletter: 🔹Hydrogen Safety: Myths, Reality, and Future Prospects 🔹Nomination of BalticSeaH2 External Advisory Board Check out the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/balticseah2val… Not a subscriber yet? Sign up: balticseah2valley.eu/publications/n…

Is hydrogen really as dangerous as some think?🔍 We bust myths and explore the safety measures, real-world examples, and technological advancements that make hydrogen a safe and promising fuel for the future. Read the full article here: balticseah2valley.eu/hydrogen-safet…

🚨I'm hiring!🚨 Join me in my new ERC-funded research project on the geopolitics of cloud computing, and get to live in the happiest country on Earth :) Now hiring a postdoc with computational data collection skills: diesl.eu/open-position-… #GEOCLOUD #DIESL

🚨 Hiring a new postdoc! 🚨 I'm looking for someone with quantitative analysis skills to join me in the ERC-funded project GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing. Hot topic, cool data, excellent career development opportunities! Apply by 9 Jan diesl.eu/open-position-…

Want to do a PhD in B2B Sales? 🌟 This is the best opportunity you can ever have. Apply! 👇 ⁦LUT University 🚀⁩ #businesschool #lutbiz ⁦Paavo Ritala⁩ ⁦Marin Jovanovic⁩ linkedin.com/posts/piahauta…

Junior (doctoral) researcher in business models for B2B platforms at LUT University 🚀 Pia Hautamäki 🌸 Paavo Ritala industryplatforms.org/p/junior-docto…

I was featured in the "Talking about platforms" podcast, and interviewed by Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso Buganza! Listen to the episode if you want to hear my take on ▶️network effects ▶️platform complementarities ▶️future research areas in the topic open.spotify.com/show/2j6OWUJYb…

Papers mentioned in the podcast: Positive, Negative, and Amplified Network Externalities in Platform Markets (published in AMP) journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.546… Vertical and horizontal complementarities in platform ecosystems (Published in IOM) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here in the darkest days of the enshittocene, enshittification is low quality and plentiful, but even in this target-rich environment, one company stands out as pioneering champions of enshittification: HP. 1/

"Trump and his team have not proposed in public a single concession that Putin should make to end this war. Not one." usnews.com/opinion/articl…

Our paper on 'Vertical and horizontal complementarities in platform ecosystems' now out in print: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…