One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force...
If you wear glasses, you might have noticed that they've been getting steadily more expensive in recent years, no matter which brand you buy and no matter where you shop. That's because a...
View ArticleSpotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big...
Spotify has asked the EU Commission to intervene in its business relationship with Apple, citing the fact that Apple takes a 30% vig on all customer revenues from people who join the service or buy...
View ArticleWhy is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco?
I'm 100% down for the trend toward trustbusting, and I'm very glad to see it applied to Big Tech, because, like Tom Eastman, I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five...
View ArticleTim Wu rebuts Zuck's reasons for exempting Facebook from antitrust enforcement
Competition scholar and cyberlawyer Tim "Net Neutrality" Wu's (previously) latest book is The Curse of Bigness: a tight, beautifully argued case for restoring pre-Reagan antitrust approaches. Wu isn't...
View ArticleBill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies
In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates dismissed the idea of breakups as a remedy for Big Tech's monopolistic market concentration; Gates said that breaking up an abusive company will just produce...
View ArticleDoJ to scrap the Paramount antitrust rule that prohibits movie studios from...
Through the 1940s and 1950s, the DoJ went to war on the "studio system" -- a system whereby studios locked up actors in exclusive contracts and then bought or strong-armed all the movie theaters in...
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