KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer Jan. 12, 2021Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 3:59 p.m. FILE- In this April 23, 2018, file photo, the logo for Visa appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Visa Inc. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 called off its planned $5.3 billion […]
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Hillicon Valley: Google denies allegations in DOJ antitrust complaint | Biden faults Trump after hack | Biden campaign says Twitter will wipe POTUS account’s followers
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Big Tech and Antitrust: A Path Forward
As the debate over big tech and antitrust intensified over the past year, certainty reigned. On one side are those who are certain that companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are monopolies, dominant in individual markets like search, social networking, e-commerce and app stores. They are certain that mergers […]
100-Year-Old Antitrust Laws Are No Match for Big Tech
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When U.S. antitrust laws were first written more than a hundred years ago, the word “data” had a slightly different meaning, referring mainly to facts and manually-compiled information. You didn’t hear it much in everyday language, and it certainly wasn’t associated with trust-busting. In the digital world of today, it’s come […]
Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust probe: sources
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google’s $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Alphabet Inc unit Google this month offered not to use Fitbit’s health data to help it target […]
Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust probe
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google’s $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit <FIT.N> will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Alphabet Inc <GOOGL.O> unit Google this month offered not to use Fitbit’s health data to help […]