The gatekeeper position of app store operators gives them the power to favour their own and the most popular applications in the rankings of search results. Based on parallels with the non-discrimination principle in the European Union's Regulation on Open Internet Access, this article...

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual mobility directly or indirectly connects all...

As the usage of mobile data is significantly increasing, the demand for free public Wi-Fi also continues to grow. The ministry of science & ICT (MSIT) and some municipalities in Korea have been constructing free Wi-Fi networks on mass transportation for the benefit of users. In this study, we...

Since the prevalence of smartphones, the smartphone application (app) industry has penetrated rapidly. Such growth encourages a deeper understanding of mobile user behavior. Using contextual information, previous studies have attempted to understand when users launch different types of app...

Mobile apps (applications) provide services such as information dissemination, knowledge promotion, social media integration, and online shopping, all of which are platforms that enable the strengthening of communication and foster interaction between firms and consumers. The related pieces of...

We examine and compare data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions: Baidu, Toutiao and its international version TopBuzz, Douyin and its international version TikTok, and WeChat. Together, these four applications represent popular Chinese...

Avenues for the delivery of loyalty programs have rapidly shifted from plastic card schemes to mobile-app-based initiatives; yet, our understanding of the economic value presented by the latter (i.e., loyalty apps) has not kept pace with this development. We examine the effects of loyalty app...

Subsidy has been consistently considered as an efficient way to attract consumers with low price, and can be measured through users' price perception. By focusing on car-hailing apps, this study investigates users' switching intention and continuous usage based on value-intention framework and...