Too much Power?
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/30/facebook-zuckerberg-empire-instagram-whatsapp-antitrust This article focuses heavily on the CEO and co-founder of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Before really diving into the main argument, the author states several statistics about Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook that are quite shocking and intriguing: 1) “Facebook controls the biggest social networks in the world outside China”; 2) “Only China remains unconquered among Zuckerberg’s […]
Robustness of airline route networks
Source : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437115009127 This article analyzes the robustness of airlines and hopes to draw a conclusion that Full Service Carriers (FSC) with a hub and spoke network are more sensitive to central airport closures than Lost Cost Carriers (LCC) with point to point networks. This article reports on the effect of airlines “attacking” nodes, leading […]