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Musk's conduct during Twitter bid always risked lawsuits and may prove to be "a very costly mistake"
Expert comment from Warwick Business School
'$43Bn is a lot to pay for a hobby, even for Elon Musk, amid questions about how he would add value to Twitter'
John Colley, Associate Dean of Warwick Business School, former MD of a FTSE 100 company, and an expert on Mergers and Acquisitions, said:
Smart succession plan and Bezos on the board should ensure Amazon continues to thrive
Christian Stadler, Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School, said:
Security experts always said they can manage Huawei, 5G throws up bigger challenges
Professor Mark Skilton, a digital communications and cyber security at Warwick Business School, said:
It will take more than 1,000 extra Facebook staff to clean up social media
Professor Mark Skilton, a digital communications expert at Warwick Business School, said:
Tariff threats will follow tech tax but internet monopolies must be addressed
Professor Mark Skilton, digital media expert at Warwick Business School and industry director of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network, comments:
Google pulled the plug on Google+ to avoid a scandal like Cambridge Analytica - expert comment
Expert comment from the University of Warwick on Liam Fox's UK export strategy speech, by Mark Skilton, professor of practice and innovation systems management at Warwick Business School.
Expert comment on Google appealing its £2.2bn EU fine
Zhewei Zhang, of Warwick Business School, Assistant Professor of Information Systems and researches digital innovation and design, comments on Google appealing its £2.2bn EU fine.
Europe need not be afraid of data
"Europe should not be afraid of data" said EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip at the Digital Assembly 2016 in Bratislava, Slovakia this week.
Time to speed up EU's Net power
How digital are we? The European Commission brought out its Digital Economy and Society Index for 2016 (DESI) this week with a favourable report of progress since last year, but warning that a slowdown in the pace of progress threatened Europe's standing at the top table of the most digitalised countries in the world.
New, safe 'Safe Harbour' agreement needed urgently
MEPs from the Civil Liberties Committee have called on the European Commission to come up with safe alternatives to the EU-US Safe Harbour agreement, in the wake of the European Court of Justice ruling that the arrangement - used by companies like Facebook to send citizens' personal data to the US - was invalid.
E-skills the key to unlocking Europe's potential for growth and job creation
Last week governments, industry, NGOs and educational bodies from 22 European countries joined forces with the European Commission to push for further action to stimulate the creation of the jobs needed to build a digital single market in Europe.
EU data protection rules set for overhaul
New data protection rules agreed by justice ministers this week give the Council a mandate to start talks with the European Parliament, now set for 24 June.
Priority to the digital single market
The Digital Single Market was earmarked as one of the Juncker Commission's top priorities, and this week it duly set out detailed plans to create a Digital Single Market, with set of targeted actions which are scheduled to be delivered by the end of next year.
Are EU charges of unfair practices against Google fair?
Internet giant Google again came under EU fire this week when the European Commission formally charged it with abusing the dominance of its search engine, while at the same time launching a sensitive probe into its omnipresent Android mobile phone operating system.
Europeans have the right to re-use and exploit public information
Europeans have a genuine right to re-use open public information. And this week the Commission issued a set of guidelines to help Member States take advantage of the revised Directive on re-use of public sector information.
The digital economy - opportunities for entrepreneurship and taxation
The report on Taxation of the Digital Economy, released by a High Level Expert Group on 28 May, presents an important challenge for tax systems and governments: to balance the need to encourage a vital sector of Europe's economy with governments' wishes to crack down and tax avoidance and tax evasion.
Data collection pervades our lives every day and more and more
Were you out celebrating Data Protection Day on Tuesday? Probably not. Maybe you shouldn't be. The issue of data protection pervades our lives every day and more and more.
Michael Ter-Berg, Director
Nick Prag, Founder, EUbusiness