Tag: Monopoly
Alternative Search Engines Write EU With Complaints About Google
Four search providers—DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and Lilo—have penned an open letter to the European Commission claiming that Google is suppressing search engine competition.
The EU...
Judge OKs Extension For FTC To Refile Facebook Suit
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has until August 19 to file an amended version of its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook after a judge granted...
Open Access, Interoperability, and the DTCC’s Unexpected Path to Monopoly
By Dan Awrey (Cornell Law School) & Joshua Macey (University of Chicago)
In markets with significant scale economies and network effects, scholars and policymakers...
How Biden Can Rein In The Big Meat Monopoly
By Claire Kelloway, Vox
Shortly after President Joe Biden took office in January, a coalition of some 30 groups made a push for a cause that flew under...
UK Probes eBay’s £7B Ads Deal Over Monopoly Concerns
Britain's markets watchdog has launched a full-scale investigation into eBay's bid to create the world's largest online business for classified ads.
The Competition and Markets...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed the U.S. Postal Service into a...
By J. Gregory Sidak, Criterion Economics
Years before the widespread use of email and the World Wide Web, Congress directed in the Postal Reorganization Act...
Indian Startups Meet CCI To Flag Google’s Antitrust Practices
The fight between startups in India and Google over the app store monopoly continues, with a group of startups reportedly knocking on the doors...
Mexico Probes Possible Monopolistic Practices In Waterproofing Products
Mexico's antitrust regulator published a notice in the Federal Official Gazette that it has initiated an investigation into possible absolute monopolistic practices in the...
Labor Organization in Ride Sharing – Unionization or Cartelization?
By Mark Anderson (University of Idaho) & Max Huffman (Indiana University)
The sharing economy brings together the constituent parts of a business enterprise into a...
The Anti-Monopoly Fund Raises $1M To Promote Antitrust Enforcement
A group pushing for more competitive markets is funneling more than $1 million into initiatives that promote stronger antitrust enforcement as US regulators examine...