The four U.S. “Big Tech” companies — Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — face an array of antitrust investigations at the…
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China’s high app store fees make Apple’s look cheap
The words “app store” appeared 340 times in a report accusing Big Tech of abusing its market power. They should see China’s app stores …
Without a ‘blue wave,’ Big Tech faces limited risk from antitrust push out of Washington D.C.
The “Big Tech” companies — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook — face limited risk from a renewed antitrust push out of Washington D.C…
Apple ‘vehemently disagrees’ with House Democrats’ antitrust conclusions as 95% of employee contributions go to Biden
After a 16-month antitrust investigation into competitive practices at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, the U.S. House Democrat …
House Democrats say Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook enjoy ‘monopoly power’
After a 16-month antitrust investigation into competitive practices at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, the U.S. House of Representatives…
Hostile to customers and in thrall to China, Apple doesn’t deserve a pass
Monopolists are endlessly inventing ways of extracting rents from their customers and suppliers. In fact, the saying works even outside the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google…
Apple CEO Cook: Monopolies aren’t bad if they aren’t abused
Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the existence of monopolies in business, while also denying that Apple has a monopoly in any sector….
Amazon, Facebook and Google tiptoe toward monopoly, but not Apple
Imagine a not-too-distant future in which trustbusters force Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp…
I’m suing New York City to loosen Verizon’s iron grip
New York City is far behind Wilson, NC when it comes to ensuring ubiquitous, reasonably priced fiber optic internet access…
Google could rig the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, says research team
By manipulating its search results, Google could decide the next election…
