Tag: Antitrust
Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Vanderbilt University
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own words play a starring role in the government’s case to break up his social network.
“It...
Why anti-competitive probe into tech giants could spell trouble for Apple...
Greig Paul, University of Strathclyde
If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it’s just how much people depend on a few large technology...
How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger will increase inequality
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
A federal judge gave his blessing to the US$26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint on Feb. 11,...
Amazon’s Whole Foods deal could still be reversed thanks to forgotten...
Ramsi Woodcock, Georgia State University
Amazon formally takes ownership of Whole Foods after the Federal Trade Commission signaled on August 23 that it wouldn’t stop...
EU’s antitrust ‘war’ on Google and Facebook uses abandoned American playbook
Ramsi Woodcock, Georgia State University
The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that European antitrust regulators have declared war on American tech giants.
On June...
Is Europe’s Google antitrust probe a ‘war’ against US tech?
Peter K Yu, Drake University and John Cross, University of Louisville
Last month, the European Commission (EC) filed a formal antitrust complaint against Google for...