#anticompetitive — Public Fediverse posts

@BusinessInsider @tech-BusinessInsider
On #meta eating #manus #AI: All the talk and commentary about talent acquisition, #geopolitical #competition, #export controls, etc. Has any respectable analyst, market/tech reporter, #journalist, commentator discussed the #antitrust and #anticompetitive impacts of meta's seemingly #predatory #acquisition of #agenticAI startup manus?🤔 Please share because I personally haven't seen any.🙏

Not so fast! Do the advantages out weight the risks? Or - whatever happened unleashing innovation vs. picking winners and losers!

Quantum-computing companies considering exchanging equity stakes for federal funding. Its sounds simple, but there are REAL dangers.

Companies may face market distortions, conflicts of interest, and politicization of commercial decisions - stifling competition and slowing progress. Federal agencies can only acquire equity stakes in private companies when explicitly authorized by specific legislation. Legislation can be changed/removed after initially being approved.

Companies might get embroiled with scrutiny under antitrust laws or other regulatory regimes designed to prevent unfair competitive practices.

https://www.investors.com/news/quantum-computing-stocks-trump-administration-equity-stakes-ionq-rigetti/ #Quantum #QuantumComputing #USGov #Equity #Investing #Politicization #ConflictsofInterest #AntiTrust #AntiCompetitive #Innovation

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-admits-anti-competitive-conduct-involving-google-search-in-australia

#HackerNews #Google #Australia #AntiCompetitive #Conduct #Search #News

4/ Historical footnote. In 2002 the UK Office of Fair Trading (#OFT) reviewed complaints about #BigDeals and other #anticompetitive practices in academic #publishing. It found market distortions but decided 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to act — because of the then-recent rise of #OpenAccess. "It is too early to assess what will be the impact of this [digital publishing & access] but there is a possibility that it will be a powerful restraint on exploiting positional advantage in the STM journals market."
http://web.archive.org/web/20051025123345/www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/A56C7602-C0BD-428D-BED2-36784363243B/0/oft396.pdf

#Antitrust #Monopoly #Publishers

https://epic.org/google-ad-topics-another-cog-in-the-surveillance-advertising-machine/

#Google under pressure to support #userprivacy & turn off 3rd-party #cookies on #Chrome, but doing so in a way that only gives them more control over #userdata. #AdTopics restricts 3rd parties from Chrome users’ data, but G itself retains control over #surveillance #advertising lifecycle—from #datacollection to #adtargeting. G has been under scrutiny for its #anticompetitive practices in Europe, and is also currently on trial in an #antitrust suit against the #usdoj.

https://epic.org/google-ad-topics-another-cog-in-the-surveillance-advertising-machine/

#Google under pressure to support #userprivacy & turn off 3rd-party #cookies on #Chrome, but doing so in a way that only gives them more control over #userdata. #AdTopics restricts 3rd parties from Chrome users’ data, but G itself retains control over #surveillance #advertising lifecycle—from #datacollection to #adtargeting. G has been under scrutiny for its #anticompetitive practices in Europe, and is also currently on trial in an #antitrust suit against the #usdoj.

https://epic.org/google-ad-topics-another-cog-in-the-surveillance-advertising-machine/

#Google under pressure to support #userprivacy & turn off 3rd-party #cookies on #Chrome, but doing so in a way that only gives them more control over #userdata. #AdTopics restricts 3rd parties from Chrome users’ data, but G itself retains control over #surveillance #advertising lifecycle—from #datacollection to #adtargeting. G has been under scrutiny for its #anticompetitive practices in Europe, and is also currently on trial in an #antitrust suit against the #usdoj.

https://epic.org/google-ad-topics-another-cog-in-the-surveillance-advertising-machine/

#Google under pressure to support #userprivacy & turn off 3rd-party #cookies on #Chrome, but doing so in a way that only gives them more control over #userdata. #AdTopics restricts 3rd parties from Chrome users’ data, but G itself retains control over #surveillance #advertising lifecycle—from #datacollection to #adtargeting. G has been under scrutiny for its #anticompetitive practices in Europe, and is also currently on trial in an #antitrust suit against the #usdoj.

https://epic.org/google-ad-topics-another-cog-in-the-surveillance-advertising-machine/

#Google under pressure to support #userprivacy & turn off 3rd-party #cookies on #Chrome, but doing so in a way that only gives them more control over #userdata. #AdTopics restricts 3rd parties from Chrome users’ data, but G itself retains control over #surveillance #advertising lifecycle—from #datacollection to #adtargeting. G has been under scrutiny for its #anticompetitive practices in Europe, and is also currently on trial in an #antitrust suit against the #usdoj.

So if #Microsoft got blocked from buying #Activision cause it would give them too many gaming franchises, then why is #MatchGroup allowed to own 25 different dating apps & sites and not face similar #antitrust rules? The online dating space is has a severe lack of competition to #Match.
#Competition #OnlineDating #Dating #Tinder #PlentyOfFish #POF #Hinge #AntiCompetitive #anticompetition #OkCupid #Xbox #Gaming #CallOfDuty #ActivisionBlizzard #Blizzard