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The Case Against Google
Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in? By Charles Duhigg.
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Big Companies Are Getting a Chokehold on the Economy
Even Goldman Sachs is worried that they're stifling competition, holding down wages and weighing on growth. By Noah Smith.
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Amazon's Japanese headquarters raided by nation's regulator
JFTC investigating firm over antitrust allegations that it demanded fees from suppliers for discounting products
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AT&T Would Use Time Warner as a ‘Weapon,’ Justice Dept. Says
The much-watched antitrust trial between the Justice Department and AT&T began on Thursday, with opening statements that presented starkly different visions for how the company’s blockbuster merger with Time Warner would fit into a media industry upturned by the internet. Before a packed courtroom with some of the industry’s leading figures, the two sides zeroed in on the case’s central question: Whether the deal would force consumers to pay more to watch their favorite shows on Time Warner cable channels like CNN and TNT.
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Why the Outrage?
Cambridge Analytica could have harvested, breached, brain-washed and honey-trapped to their evil hearts’ content, but if Clinton had won, it wouldn’t be a story. By William Davies.
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Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs To Be Broken Up
The company is a monopoly whose business model is surveillance and manipulation of users. Regulation alone won’t change that.
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The Tech Giants Must Be Stopped
They destroy jobs, distort markets, and trample on liberties. It's time we directed technological change rather than the other way around. By William A. Nitze.
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U.S. Investigating AT&T and Verizon Over Wireless Collusion Claim
The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into potential coordination by AT&T, Verizon and a telecommunications standards organization to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers, according to six people with knowledge of the inquiry. In February, the Justice Department issued demands to AT&T, Verizon and the G.S.M.A., a mobile industry standards-setting group, for information on potential collusion to thwart a technology known as eSIM, said two of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details are confidential.
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‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley
Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the future of the internet. The government had other ideas. By Victor Luckerson.
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AT&T completes acquisition of Time Warner
AT&T announced Thursday evening that it has completed the acquisition of Time Warner. The announcement comes two days after a judge ruled that the deal does not violate antitrust laws. "The content and creative talent at Warner Bros., HBO and Turner are first-rate. Combine all that with AT&T's strengths in direct-to-consumer distribution, and we offer customers a differentiated, high-quality, mobile-first entertainment experience," Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, said in a statement.
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Google is under siege from conservatives, as a senior Republican demands an inquiry into its market dominance
Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has written to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the competition body to open a new antitrust investigation into Google. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, argued that Google had become "more dominant" since the FTC last investigated Google's conduct in 2013 without major repercussions for the firm. Hatch is a member of the Senate's antitrust committee.
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Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.
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Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer
When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance. By Mike Ludwig.
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Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks? By Thomas Claburn.
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The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit
When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? By Matt Taibbi.
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Supreme Court says Apple will have to face App Store monopoly lawsuit
The case is still at an "early stage"
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FacebookCoin is a Trojan Horse of Corporate Oligarchy
Allowing any person or company this sort of control is absolute insanity. By Michael Krieger.
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In congressional hearing, tech giants face tough questioning over potential monopolies
Facebook, Amazon and Google all weathered many critiques, while Apple got less attention.
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Senator calls for a criminal antitrust investigation into Amazon over 'predatory and exclusionary data practices'
Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday called for a criminal antitrust investigation into Amazon's reported use of third-party sellers' data to benefit its private label brands. In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Hawley said Amazon "has engaged in predatory and exclusionary data practices to build and maintain a monopoly," citing a Wall Street Journal report that said the company uses data from third-party sellers to inform decisions on pricing or features to copy in products by its private label brands, such as Amazon Basics.
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Microsoft president's criticism of app stores puts pressure on Apple
Microsoft has thrown its weight behind calls for an antitrust investigation into App Store monopolies, piling yet more pressure on Apple as the iPhone maker prepares for its annual developer conference on Monday. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, criticised the 30% cut that app stores take from developers this month, and argued that the policy is a far higher burden on fair competition than the issues that led to Microsoft’s antitrust case in the early 2000s.
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