#antitrust — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antitrust, aggregated by home.social.
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Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'
https://www.techcentral.ie/mozilla-says-stricter-antitrust-measures-against-google-threaten-firefox/
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Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'
https://www.techcentral.ie/mozilla-says-stricter-antitrust-measures-against-google-threaten-firefox/
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L’Antitrust punisce Google, ma a rischiare la fine è Firefox
#mozilla #firefox #antitrust #googleAntitrust #googleNel tentativo di smantellare il monopolio delle ricerche di Google, spingendosi fino all’ipotesi di cessione forzata del browser Chrome, il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti rischia di causare un danno collaterale devastante: la fine dei browser indipendenti e la totale concentrazione del Web nelle mani di pochissimi colossi tecnologici.
https://www.marcosbox.com/2026/08/13/lantitrust-punisce-google-ma-a-rischiare-la-fine-e-firefox/
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L’Antitrust punisce Google, ma a rischiare la fine è Firefox
#mozilla #firefox #antitrust #googleAntitrust #googleNel tentativo di smantellare il monopolio delle ricerche di Google, spingendosi fino all’ipotesi di cessione forzata del browser Chrome, il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti rischia di causare un danno collaterale devastante: la fine dei browser indipendenti e la totale concentrazione del Web nelle mani di pochissimi colossi tecnologici.
https://www.marcosbox.com/2026/08/13/lantitrust-punisce-google-ma-a-rischiare-la-fine-e-firefox/
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WNBA Eligibility Rules, Transgender Policy Invites Legal Debate https://www.rawchili.com/5070238/ #Antitrust #employment #labor #transgender #USSupremeCourt #WNBA
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Kotaku: Stop Killing Games Joins Lawsuit Against Sony Over Its ‘Total Control of PlayStation Store Pricing’ https://kotaku.com/stop-killing-games-joins-lawsuit-against-sony-over-its-total-control-of-playstation-store-pricing-2000723377 @Kotaku #Sony #PlayStation #antitrust
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Kotaku: Stop Killing Games Joins Lawsuit Against Sony Over Its ‘Total Control of PlayStation Store Pricing’ https://kotaku.com/stop-killing-games-joins-lawsuit-against-sony-over-its-total-control-of-playstation-store-pricing-2000723377 @Kotaku #Sony #PlayStation #antitrust
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Le Monde: 300 French newspapers file competition complaint against Google over AI summaries https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/08/11/300-french-newspapers-file-competition-complaint-against-google-over-ai-summaries_6756384_19.html @lemonde #Google #antitrust
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Le Monde: 300 French newspapers file competition complaint against Google over AI summaries https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/08/11/300-french-newspapers-file-competition-complaint-against-google-over-ai-summaries_6756384_19.html @lemonde #Google #antitrust
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Reuters: French press body asks competition watchdog to take action over Google AI. “A French press association has asked the country’s competition watchdog to take action against Google’s artificial intelligence-generated article summaries, which the trade group says deprive newspapers and magazines of readers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/11/reuters-french-press-body-asks-competition-watchdog-to-take-action-over-google-ai/ -
Reuters: French press body asks competition watchdog to take action over Google AI. “A French press association has asked the country’s competition watchdog to take action against Google’s artificial intelligence-generated article summaries, which the trade group says deprive newspapers and magazines of readers.”
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Don’t Believe Paramount’s Hype: California AG Rob Bonta Claims Ellison Muddying WBD Merger Waters With Misinformation & Side Deals; “We Intend To Win” – Guest Column
#Acquisitions #Executives #Legal #Politics #AMinecraftMovie #Antitrust #California #DavidEllison #GuestColumn #Mergers #MissionImpossible #Paramount #ParamountSkydance #ParamountWB #RobBonta #WarnerBros #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/rob-bonta-up-ed-david-ellison-paramount-warner-bros-1237029737/
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Don’t Believe Paramount’s Hype: California AG Rob Bonta Claims Ellison Muddying WBD Merger Waters With Misinformation & Side Deals; “We Intend To Win” – Guest Column
#Acquisitions #Executives #Legal #Politics #AMinecraftMovie #Antitrust #California #DavidEllison #GuestColumn #Mergers #MissionImpossible #Paramount #ParamountSkydance #ParamountWB #RobBonta #WarnerBros #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/rob-bonta-up-ed-david-ellison-paramount-warner-bros-1237029737/
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LA Times: KTLA-TV owner Nexstar violated court order, a federal judge finds
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LA Times: KTLA-TV owner Nexstar violated court order, a federal judge finds
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"If I want to make myself really angry about the enshittified state of the internet, I don’t fume over pages of slop-drenched, spam-drowned Google results; nor about the fake-review garlanded sub-Temu garbage on Amazon. I don’t even rage against Elon Musk’s child porn–choked, bot-infested Twitter.
No, when I want to get good and apoplectic about the internet, I think about policymakers. Specifically, I think about all the policymakers I’ve met and corresponded with and begged with and pleaded with and raged against in my twenty-five years with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
These policymakers are the true authors of our misery. It was they who made decisions that had the foreseeable and foreseen outcome of ushering in the enshittocene, this era in which all of our technology is turning into shit. The thing is, we told them exactly what would happen if they made those policy blunders, and they made them anyway, and now they walk among us, disclaiming any responsibility for systematically rigging the game so that the worst people with the worst ideas make the most money.
It’s as though we used to put down rat poison, and we didn’t have a rat problem, and then these guys told us that we had it all wrong and we didn’t need the rat poison after all. Now, rats are eating our faces off, and these guys refused to accept that their pro-rat policies had anything to do with it. They say we’re living through the Time of the Rat, in which the great forces of history and the iron laws of economics have combined to create rats of unheard-of fecundity. When we point out the rats have bought and shuttered the rat poison factories, they get defiant
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For decades, we allowed companies like Google and Facebook and Amazon to violate competition law. We let them buy their major competitors...https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-was-the-internet/
#Capitalism #OpenWeb #BigTech #PublicInfrastructures #Antitrust #Monopolies #Oligopolies
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"If I want to make myself really angry about the enshittified state of the internet, I don’t fume over pages of slop-drenched, spam-drowned Google results; nor about the fake-review garlanded sub-Temu garbage on Amazon. I don’t even rage against Elon Musk’s child porn–choked, bot-infested Twitter.
No, when I want to get good and apoplectic about the internet, I think about policymakers. Specifically, I think about all the policymakers I’ve met and corresponded with and begged with and pleaded with and raged against in my twenty-five years with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
These policymakers are the true authors of our misery. It was they who made decisions that had the foreseeable and foreseen outcome of ushering in the enshittocene, this era in which all of our technology is turning into shit. The thing is, we told them exactly what would happen if they made those policy blunders, and they made them anyway, and now they walk among us, disclaiming any responsibility for systematically rigging the game so that the worst people with the worst ideas make the most money.
It’s as though we used to put down rat poison, and we didn’t have a rat problem, and then these guys told us that we had it all wrong and we didn’t need the rat poison after all. Now, rats are eating our faces off, and these guys refused to accept that their pro-rat policies had anything to do with it. They say we’re living through the Time of the Rat, in which the great forces of history and the iron laws of economics have combined to create rats of unheard-of fecundity. When we point out the rats have bought and shuttered the rat poison factories, they get defiant
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For decades, we allowed companies like Google and Facebook and Amazon to violate competition law. We let them buy their major competitors...https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-was-the-internet/
#Capitalism #OpenWeb #BigTech #PublicInfrastructures #Antitrust #Monopolies #Oligopolies
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"If Kagi (a startup with a handful of engineers) can extract useful search results from Google's databases, then Google – a thrice-convicted monopolist that's had its pick of thousands of the top computer scientists from the world's most prestigious universities for a generation – could also do so.
They just choose not to.
They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care.
Google's AI search isn't a way to fix its broken core product: it's a way to partially remediate the damage Google itself inflicted on the open internet, while imprisoning the web in a walled garden that would make Steve Jobs drool:
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It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. The too-big-to-care company is still the internet's gatekeeper, but half the guards at the gate have been fired and the other half have pulled so much overtime that they keep falling asleep on the job.Google has become a scammer's paradise.
Take Google's "answer box." This is the part of the search results page that tries to answer your query directly, without sending you elsewhere for that info. Back in 2023, Google's Answer Box was taken over by scammers who impersonated airline help desks. When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves:"
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/
#Google #Search #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #Scams #AIOverview #BigTech #Monopolies #Antitrust
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"If Kagi (a startup with a handful of engineers) can extract useful search results from Google's databases, then Google – a thrice-convicted monopolist that's had its pick of thousands of the top computer scientists from the world's most prestigious universities for a generation – could also do so.
They just choose not to.
They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care.
Google's AI search isn't a way to fix its broken core product: it's a way to partially remediate the damage Google itself inflicted on the open internet, while imprisoning the web in a walled garden that would make Steve Jobs drool:
(...)
It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. The too-big-to-care company is still the internet's gatekeeper, but half the guards at the gate have been fired and the other half have pulled so much overtime that they keep falling asleep on the job.Google has become a scammer's paradise.
Take Google's "answer box." This is the part of the search results page that tries to answer your query directly, without sending you elsewhere for that info. Back in 2023, Google's Answer Box was taken over by scammers who impersonated airline help desks. When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves:"
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/
#Google #Search #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #Scams #AIOverview #BigTech #Monopolies #Antitrust
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NCAA and Wisne Athletes Debate Meaning of 4 Words in Injunction https://www.rawchili.com/5066336/ #Antitrust #basketball #ncaa #NCAABasketball #NCAACompliance #NCAALegalIssues #NCAAB #TransferPortal
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FYI: Teads warns Google could cut its revenue in retaliation for antitrust suit: Risk factor names service disruption, lost revenue and damaged publisher ties as the cost of suing. Second-quarter results land three days after the filing. https://ppc.land/teads-warns-google-could-cut-its-revenue-in-retaliation-for-antitrust-suit/ #Teads #Google #Antitrust #DigitalMarketing #PublisherRelations
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FYI: Teads warns Google could cut its revenue in retaliation for antitrust suit: Risk factor names service disruption, lost revenue and damaged publisher ties as the cost of suing. Second-quarter results land three days after the filing. https://ppc.land/teads-warns-google-could-cut-its-revenue-in-retaliation-for-antitrust-suit/ #Teads #Google #Antitrust #DigitalMarketing #PublisherRelations
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FYI: Teads sues Google, citing 6.88 trillion impressions lost to rival exchanges: Complaint alleges 90% of Google Ads demand flows only through AdX, squeezing rival exchanges. Nasdaq-listed plaintiff wants treble damages and a jury trial. https://ppc.land/teads-sues-google-citing-6-88-trillion-impressions-lost-to-rival-exchanges/ #Teads #Google #DigitalAdvertising #AdTech #Antitrust
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Like comptuer networks, markets are a trust technology that require well established trust boundaries. The recent DOJ egg collusion complaint shows that collusion can happen, not just when producers get together, but when they "hack" an interface the market uses to coordinate activity.
In this case, the prodcuers coordinated to spoof activity to fool a market monitor.
https://misaligned.markets/bad-eggs-market-collusion/
#economics #capitalism #antitrust #monopoly #economy #inflation #cybersecurity
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Like comptuer networks, markets are a trust technology that require well established trust boundaries. The recent DOJ egg collusion complaint shows that collusion can happen, not just when producers get together, but when they "hack" an interface the market uses to coordinate activity.
In this case, the prodcuers coordinated to spoof activity to fool a market monitor.
https://misaligned.markets/bad-eggs-market-collusion/
#economics #capitalism #antitrust #monopoly #economy #inflation #cybersecurity
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#BrendanCarr already sidestepped the ownership cap earlier this year when the #FCC approved Nexstar’s $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna, which would give the country’s largest #TV owner an 80% reach into #US homes. That deal was subsequently blocked by a federal judge after DirecTV & several state attorneys general sued, alleging #antitrust violations. The case is ongoing.
#law #monopoly #billionaires #media #regulations #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
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#BrendanCarr already sidestepped the ownership cap earlier this year when the #FCC approved Nexstar’s $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna, which would give the country’s largest #TV owner an 80% reach into #US homes. That deal was subsequently blocked by a federal judge after DirecTV & several state attorneys general sued, alleging #antitrust violations. The case is ongoing.
#law #monopoly #billionaires #media #regulations #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
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The #FCC’s commissioners voted 2-1 to replace the cap, which prevents a company from owning broadcasting stations that collectively reach more than 39% of #US households, with a case-by-case review. The agency has said that the new process would “empower the FCC to approve deals that promote the public interest while allowing the agency to reject any deals that do not meet that standard.”
#law #antitrust #monopoly #billionaires #media #regulations #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump -
The #FCC’s commissioners voted 2-1 to replace the cap, which prevents a company from owning broadcasting stations that collectively reach more than 39% of #US households, with a case-by-case review. The agency has said that the new process would “empower the FCC to approve deals that promote the public interest while allowing the agency to reject any deals that do not meet that standard.”
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#FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of #TV #broadcasting companies
Chairman #BrendanCarr has long said he would do away with the ownership cap. Critics say only #Congress has that authority.The FCC Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing #regulation constraining the size of large television broadcasting companies, a major #deregulatory move pushed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
#law #antitrust #billionaires #media #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/06/fcc-lifts-cap-limiting-size-tv-broadcasting-companies/ -
#FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of #TV #broadcasting companies
Chairman #BrendanCarr has long said he would do away with the ownership cap. Critics say only #Congress has that authority.The FCC Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing #regulation constraining the size of large television broadcasting companies, a major #deregulatory move pushed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
#law #antitrust #billionaires #media #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
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Reuters: LinkedIn executives can be questioned in antitrust lawsuit, judge rules. “A group of current and former senior LinkedIn executives including billionaire co-founder Reid Hoffman can be questioned in a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally monopolizing the professional social media market, a federal judge has ruled.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/reuters-linkedin-executives-can-be-questioned-in-antitrust-lawsuit-judge-rules/ -
Reuters: LinkedIn executives can be questioned in antitrust lawsuit, judge rules. “A group of current and former senior LinkedIn executives including billionaire co-founder Reid Hoffman can be questioned in a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally monopolizing the professional social media market, a federal judge has ruled.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/reuters-linkedin-executives-can-be-questioned-in-antitrust-lawsuit-judge-rules/ -
Judge Dismisses Consumer Lawsuit Challenging Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
#Legal #News #Politics #Antitrust #Consumerlawsuit #ElectionLine #Paramount #ParamountWB #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/judge-dismisses-paramount-warner-bros-consumer-lawsuit-1237027434/
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Judge Dismisses Consumer Lawsuit Challenging Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
#Legal #News #Politics #Antitrust #Consumerlawsuit #ElectionLine #Paramount #ParamountWB #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/judge-dismisses-paramount-warner-bros-consumer-lawsuit-1237027434/
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Giant corporations should not have the power over our lives the way that they do.
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors - Engadget
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Giant corporations should not have the power over our lives the way that they do.
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors - Engadget
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Regal Cinemas CEO Eduardo Acuna Champions Paramount-WBD Merger, Says Antitrust Trial “Creates More Uncertainty And Distraction”
#News #Antitrust #EduardoAcuna #Mergersandacquisitions #ParamountWBD #RegalCinemashttps://deadline.com/2026/08/regal-cinemas-ceo-paramount-warner-bros-merger-1237027050/
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Regal Cinemas CEO Eduardo Acuna Champions Paramount-WBD Merger, Says Antitrust Trial “Creates More Uncertainty And Distraction”
#News #Antitrust #EduardoAcuna #Mergersandacquisitions #ParamountWBD #RegalCinemashttps://deadline.com/2026/08/regal-cinemas-ceo-paramount-warner-bros-merger-1237027050/
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ICYMI: Teads warns Google could cut its revenue in retaliation for antitrust suit: Risk factor names service disruption, lost revenue and damaged publisher ties as the cost of suing. Second-quarter results land three days after the filing. https://ppc.land/teads-warns-google-could-cut-its-revenue-in-retaliation-for-antitrust-suit/ #Google #Antitrust #Teads #DigitalAdvertising #RevenueImpact
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Pretend I quoted my previous retoot; quote text: "In case anyone following this & not my other account knows about #antitrust, I'm looking for help, I'm not a lawyer."
(I HATE that I can no longer quote my bsky acct. Why, @bsky.brid.gy ?)
Anyway, Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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Pretend I quoted my previous retoot; quote text: "In case anyone following this & not my other account knows about #antitrust, I'm looking for help, I'm not a lawyer."
(I HATE that I can no longer quote my bsky acct. Why, @bsky.brid.gy ?)
Anyway, Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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David Ellison Says Paramount Is “Absolutely Open” To Settling WBD Antitrust Suit, But “We Will Win At Trial”
#News #Antitrust #DavidEllison #Earnings #Mergersandacquisitions #Paramount #ParamountWBD -
David Ellison Says Paramount Is “Absolutely Open” To Settling WBD Antitrust Suit, But “We Will Win At Trial”
#News #Antitrust #DavidEllison #Earnings #Mergersandacquisitions #Paramount #ParamountWBD -
Judge Sets Paramount-WBD Merger Antitrust Trial For March
#News #Politics #Antitrust #ElectionLine #Paramount #RobBonta #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-bros-trial-1237016438/
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Judge Sets Paramount-WBD Merger Antitrust Trial For March
#News #Politics #Antitrust #ElectionLine #Paramount #RobBonta #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-bros-trial-1237016438/
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Teads warns Google could cut its revenue in retaliation for antitrust suit: Risk factor names service disruption, lost revenue and damaged publisher ties as the cost of suing. Second-quarter results land three days after the filing. https://ppc.land/teads-warns-google-could-cut-its-revenue-in-retaliation-for-antitrust-suit/ #Teads #Google #Antitrust #LegalNews #RevenueImpact
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Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger
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Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger
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As Merger Hangs In The Balance, Paramount And WBD Step Into Quarterly Earnings Spotlight
#Executives #News #ParamountWBD #Antitrust #DavidZaslav #Earnings #Mergersandacquisitions #Paramount #Warnerbrosdiscovery #Wbdhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-wbd-merger-q2-earnings-1237016279/