Google’s request to receive antitrust amnesty, without providing evidence to support it, reveals the company’s complete disregard for legal processes and national security. Big Tech has gotten away with this antitrust amnesty rhetoric for far too long…
Gail Slater Is the Perfect Pick to Lead the Trump DOJ’s Fight Against Big Tech…
Everyone across the political spectrum — except, of course, tech giants and their paid shills in D.C. — should welcome the nomination of Gail Slater…
Big Tech Doesn’t Yet Realize They Are Now Irrelevant…
Recently Twitter deplatformed permanently Congressman Marjorie Taylor-Greene for posting truth to power on their network. And, it really didn’t matter. Does anyone really care?…
Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger…
When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing product, only to […]
Some Thoughts on the EU’s Latest $5 Billion Google Antitrust Fine…
As was widely expected, earlier today, the EU Commission brought down its latest antitrust fine against Google, this time for an eye-popping $5 billion. The number gets the attention, but it’s worth looking at the underlying details here. This was the result of a two year investigation, specifically into certain bundling practices that Google used […]
Tech Titans Tiptoe Toward Monopoly…
Imagine a not-too-distant future in which trustbusters force Facebook FB 1.15% to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. Imagine a time when Amazon’s cloud and delivery services are so dominant the company is broken up like AT&T . Imagine Google’s search or YouTube becoming regulated monopolies, like electricity and water. Facebook Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc. […]
Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up?…
As a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, Jonathan Taplin isn’t your typical academic. Lately, though, he’s been busy writing somber tomes about market shares, monopolies, and online platforms. His conclusion: Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google have become too big and too powerful and, if not stopped, may need to be broken up…
EU Blocks Stock Exchange Mega-Merger Between Germany and Britain…
EU antitrust regulators have rejected the proposed €29 billion ($31.3 billion) merger of Deutsche Boerse and the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The combined exchange would have become the largest in Europe. “The Commission cannot allow the creation of monopolies, and that is what would have happened in this case,” Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust commissioner, […]
Monopolies Are Worse Than We Thought…
Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the problem of monopoly. This doesn’t mean literal monopoly, like when one utility company provides all the power in a city. It refers to market concentration in general — when an industry goes from having 20 players to having only 10, or when the four biggest companies in […]