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Facebook’s new Instagram feature could crush Tik Tok

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor July 25, 2020

These last few weeks have been hard for Tik Tok. The Chinese app was banned from India—one of its biggest markets—in late June. In the United States, the administration is debating whether to restrict it for fears that it could be used as a surveillance tool. Meanwhile, Facebook is taking advantage of Tik Tok’s weakness […]

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Where did Quibi go wrong?

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor July 9, 2020

Three months ago, the streaming service Quibi was launched with some fanfare and we devoted one of our posts to it (read Quibi, the new streaming platform for mobile devices). Its success so far has been quite limited. Its founders have blamed the pandemic for the app’s flop, but its problems may not stop here. […]

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The rise of the healthcare influencer

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor May 15, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown light to a trend that had gone largely unnoticed until now—a lack of medical experts on social media. Since the virus hit Western countries, citizens have turned to the Internet for solutions. But, with the rise of misinformation, most of them decided to put their trust in the few medical […]

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Local outlets struggle during COVID-19

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor April 15, 2020

As we settle in our quarantines, we have more time in our hands to read the news—and sometimes obsessively. Thus, it’s not surprising that since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the Western hemisphere, news readership has surged dramatically. But what has also drastically changed is newspaper revenue. With businesses closing, the number of ads has plunged, […]

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Entertainment in times of quarantine

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor March 28, 2020

As quarantines are implemented throughout the world, users are spending more time on the Internet looking for entertainment options. This makes it, without doubt, the golden age of streaming services and online gaming outlets. But it is also an exciting time for grassroots initiatives, which are flooding the Internet.  As the competition for the audience’s […]

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Josep Valor

Josep Valor-Sabatier is professor of Information Systems and information technology and holder of the Indra Chair of Digital Strategy.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep Valor teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy.

Carmen Arroyo

Carmen Arroyo is a financial reporter for Euromoney Institutional Investor, which she joined after finishing her graduate studies in international politics at Columbia University in New York City. She also freelances for the news agency IPS News Service at their United Nations Bureau, covering migration and climate, and writes a newsletter on narrative journalism.

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