#pricefixing — Public Fediverse posts
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LOLs Their "study" predicts that the price of a Big Mac will hit $9 by 2036 (?!?)
...I paid $13 for a #BigMac meal last weekend - not in #Manhattan but in PA - and where can you buy just a Big Mac for less than $7 right now?!?
Oh, great conservative press machine, please stay out of touch and divorced from reality ~
#inflation #PriceFixing #egg #cartel #useless #fines
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/9-dollar-big-mac-when-fast-food-go-to-meal-could-hit-record-high/91370706 -
LOLs Their "study" predicts that the price of a Big Mac will hit $9 by 2036 (?!?)
...I paid $13 for a #BigMac meal last weekend - not in #Manhattan but in PA - and where can you buy just a Big Mac for less than $7 right now?!?
Oh, great conservative press machine, please stay out of touch and divorced from reality ~
#inflation #PriceFixing #egg #cartel #useless #fines
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/9-dollar-big-mac-when-fast-food-go-to-meal-could-hit-record-high/91370706 -
LOLs Their "study" predicts that the price of a Big Mac will hit $9 by 2036 (?!?)
...I paid $13 for a #BigMac meal last weekend - not in #Manhattan but in PA - and where can you buy just a Big Mac for less than $7 right now?!?
Oh, great conservative press machine, please stay out of touch and divorced from reality ~
#inflation #PriceFixing #egg #cartel #useless #fines
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/9-dollar-big-mac-when-fast-food-go-to-meal-could-hit-record-high/91370706 -
LOLs Their "study" predicts that the price of a Big Mac will hit $9 by 2036 (?!?)
...I paid $13 for a #BigMac meal last weekend - not in #Manhattan but in PA - and where can you buy just a Big Mac for less than $7 right now?!?
Oh, great conservative press machine, please stay out of touch and divorced from reality ~
#inflation #PriceFixing #egg #cartel #useless #fines
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/9-dollar-big-mac-when-fast-food-go-to-meal-could-hit-record-high/91370706 -
$8M settlement proposed in beef #pricefixing class action | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/beef-price-fixing-class-action-proposed-settlement-9.7264745 #Canada
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$8M settlement proposed in beef #pricefixing class action | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/beef-price-fixing-class-action-proposed-settlement-9.7264745 #Canada
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$8M settlement proposed in beef price-fixing class action
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/beef-price-fixing-class-action-proposed-settlement-9.7264745
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Une entente de règlement de 8M$ a été proposée dans le recours collectif sur la fixation des prix du bœuf -
$8M settlement proposed in beef price-fixing class action
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/beef-price-fixing-class-action-proposed-settlement-9.7264745
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Une entente de règlement de 8M$ a été proposée dans le recours collectif sur la fixation des prix du bœuf -
"We have so much to learn from China. This is the reason so many Western politicians and capitalists hate them. In China the bread price fixing would have been the end for Galen Weston. Not a slap on the wrist and getting to keep the money, like he got here." - Jeremy Park
#PriceFixing #GalenWeston #Loblaws #GroceryPrices #Billionaires
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"We have so much to learn from China. This is the reason so many Western politicians and capitalists hate them. In China the bread price fixing would have been the end for Galen Weston. Not a slap on the wrist and getting to keep the money, like he got here." - Jeremy Park
#PriceFixing #GalenWeston #Loblaws #GroceryPrices #Billionaires
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a
#HackerNews #EggBandits #PriceFixing #CrimeNews #BusinessEthics #FoodIndustry
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a
#HackerNews #EggBandits #PriceFixing #CrimeNews #BusinessEthics #FoodIndustry
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"Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have been slapped with a class action lawsuit for price fixing and market manipulation of RAM. This is a big deal because these three companies together manufacture around 89% of the entire global DRAM market.
The suit says that “the DRAM oligopolists have simultaneously cut production, coordinated a pivot to HBM and exit from DDR3 and DDR4, and otherwise decreased and locked up conventional DRAM supply while prices charged up with mind-blowing scale and rapidity. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron continue to squeeze conventional DRAM supply, simultaneously and publicly directing their resources towards less profitable-per-die HBDM – or in some cases, simply junking conventional DRAM supply channels together.”
The suit also claims that the three companies are aware that competitors can’t enter the DRAM market because the cost and knowledge required are too steep for newcomers to overcome. And therefore, they make decisions based on the unofficial market protection they collectively enjoy."
#RAM #RAMMemory #MemoryCrisis #PriceFixing #MarketManipulation #Oligopolies
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"Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have been slapped with a class action lawsuit for price fixing and market manipulation of RAM. This is a big deal because these three companies together manufacture around 89% of the entire global DRAM market.
The suit says that “the DRAM oligopolists have simultaneously cut production, coordinated a pivot to HBM and exit from DDR3 and DDR4, and otherwise decreased and locked up conventional DRAM supply while prices charged up with mind-blowing scale and rapidity. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron continue to squeeze conventional DRAM supply, simultaneously and publicly directing their resources towards less profitable-per-die HBDM – or in some cases, simply junking conventional DRAM supply channels together.”
The suit also claims that the three companies are aware that competitors can’t enter the DRAM market because the cost and knowledge required are too steep for newcomers to overcome. And therefore, they make decisions based on the unofficial market protection they collectively enjoy."
#RAM #RAMMemory #MemoryCrisis #PriceFixing #MarketManipulation #Oligopolies
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Samsung, SK Hynix, And Micron Are Getting Sued Over DRAM Price Fixing #dram #hardware #memory #micron #pricefixing #samsung #skhynix
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/397295/samsung-skhynix-micron-price-fixing/
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Samsung, SK Hynix, And Micron Are Getting Sued Over DRAM Price Fixing #dram #hardware #memory #micron #pricefixing #samsung #skhynix
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/397295/samsung-skhynix-micron-price-fixing/
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US #pricefixing probe on Singaporean tycoon signals consistent #legal approach
"under #US #antitrust #law, the crime of price-fixing cld be prosecuted even if the conduct took place outside US, so long as such conduct had a “direct, substantial and reasonably foreseeable” effect on domestic commerce.. Price-fixing is a serious violation of #competition law around the world"
🤔 When will US #DOJ go after #OPEC? The biggest price fixers in the world?🤦♂️ #energycrisis #justice
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3355281/us-price-fixing-probe-singaporean-tycoon-signals-consistent-legal-approach -
US #pricefixing probe on Singaporean tycoon signals consistent #legal approach
"under #US #antitrust #law, the crime of price-fixing cld be prosecuted even if the conduct took place outside US, so long as such conduct had a “direct, substantial and reasonably foreseeable” effect on domestic commerce.. Price-fixing is a serious violation of #competition law around the world"
🤔 When will US #DOJ go after #OPEC? The biggest price fixers in the world?🤦♂️ #energycrisis #justice
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3355281/us-price-fixing-probe-singaporean-tycoon-signals-consistent-legal-approach -
Singaporean among #shipping execs accused of #pricefixing in US
"Singamas is a subsid of #PIL where Teo is exec chairman. Teo, who's also chairman of te #Singapore Business Federation & sits on 🇸🇬 #Economic Resilience #Taskforce, was later allegedly told abt te plans to artificially restrict #container production. An agreement was formalised in Feb 2020.. prices of 20-foot shipping containers more than doubled, fr ~US$1,600 to >US$3,500 fr 2019-2021"
#antitrust #corruption
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/container-firm-execs-including-shipping-veteran-teo-siong-seng-accused-of-price-fixing-in-us -
Singaporean among #shipping execs accused of #pricefixing in US
"Singamas is a subsid of #PIL where Teo is exec chairman. Teo, who's also chairman of te #Singapore Business Federation & sits on 🇸🇬 #Economic Resilience #Taskforce, was later allegedly told abt te plans to artificially restrict #container production. An agreement was formalised in Feb 2020.. prices of 20-foot shipping containers more than doubled, fr ~US$1,600 to >US$3,500 fr 2019-2021"
#antitrust #corruption
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/container-firm-execs-including-shipping-veteran-teo-siong-seng-accused-of-price-fixing-in-us -
FYI: California exposes Amazon's secret price-fixing network with vendors: California releases unredacted court evidence showing Amazon coordinated retail price increases with Levi's, Walmart, Chewy, Target, and other major brands. https://ppc.land/california-exposes-amazons-secret-price-fixing-network-with-vendors/ #Amazon #PriceFixing #California #RetailNews #ConsumerRights
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ICYMI: California exposes Amazon's secret price-fixing network with vendors: California releases unredacted court evidence showing Amazon coordinated retail price increases with Levi's, Walmart, Chewy, Target, and other major brands. https://ppc.land/california-exposes-amazons-secret-price-fixing-network-with-vendors/ #California #Amazon #PriceFixing #RetailNews #Ecommerce
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California exposes Amazon's secret price-fixing network with vendors: California releases unredacted court evidence showing Amazon coordinated retail price increases with Levi's, Walmart, Chewy, Target, and other major brands. https://ppc.land/california-exposes-amazons-secret-price-fixing-network-with-vendors/ #Amazon #PriceFixing #RetailNews #California #Ecommerce
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...“The evidence uncovered today is clear as day: Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable,” Bonta said in a statement. “The company is price fixing, colluding with vendors and other retailers to raise costs for Americans beyond what the market requires – beyond what is fair.”...
If they do it there...
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...“The evidence uncovered today is clear as day: Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable,” Bonta said in a statement. “The company is price fixing, colluding with vendors and other retailers to raise costs for Americans beyond what the market requires – beyond what is fair.”...
If they do it there...
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🎭 Oh, the drama! The California AG swoops in with "unsealed records" (very Hollywood), revealing Amazon's price-fixing antics—because apparently, dominating global e-commerce wasn't enough of a plot twist. 📈 Meanwhile, The Guardian provides an endless menu of news, like a buffet with no food. 🍽️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit #CaliforniaAG #Amazon #PriceFixing #ECommerce #TheGuardian #NewsDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
🎭 Oh, the drama! The California AG swoops in with "unsealed records" (very Hollywood), revealing Amazon's price-fixing antics—because apparently, dominating global e-commerce wasn't enough of a plot twist. 📈 Meanwhile, The Guardian provides an endless menu of news, like a buffet with no food. 🍽️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit #CaliforniaAG #Amazon #PriceFixing #ECommerce #TheGuardian #NewsDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
#HackerNews #Amazon #PriceFixing #CaliforniaAG #Lawsuit #UnsealedRecords #Antitrust
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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
#HackerNews #Amazon #PriceFixing #CaliforniaAG #Lawsuit #UnsealedRecords #Antitrust
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Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims | Amazon | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit"Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing"
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Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims | Amazon | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit"Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing"
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How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2025/12/18/how-walmart-and-pepsico-rigged-prices-and-supercharged-food-inflation/#inflation #groceries #foodprices #pricefixing #ftc #monopoly #walmart #pepsico #fritolay
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How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2025/12/18/how-walmart-and-pepsico-rigged-prices-and-supercharged-food-inflation/#inflation #groceries #foodprices #pricefixing #ftc #monopoly #walmart #pepsico #fritolay
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From a small Guardian update this morning:
"A highly anticipated federal court battle between the competition regulator and supermarket giant Coles begins today, testing allegations the retailer offered “illusory” discounts on hundreds of everyday products.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking large penalties and community service orders against Coles, which, along with Woolworths, controls two-thirds of the Australian grocery market.
A similar case against Woolworths is expected to be heard at a later date.
The 10-day hearing in Melbourne will scrutinise pricing practices involving hundreds of products, from instant coffee to chocolate biscuits, over an extended period.
The regulator alleges that Coles temporarily inflated prices before marking the items as discounted under promotions like “Down Down,” in a practice known as “was/is” pricing.
Coles is defending the claims, arguing pricing was a response to increased costs from suppliers.
The case starts during a period of reigniting inflation, with groceries and other household costs rising strongly again."
#Coles #Shopping #News #Consumers #ACCC #PriceFixing #Corruption #Law #Supermarkets #Australia
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From a small Guardian update this morning:
"A highly anticipated federal court battle between the competition regulator and supermarket giant Coles begins today, testing allegations the retailer offered “illusory” discounts on hundreds of everyday products.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking large penalties and community service orders against Coles, which, along with Woolworths, controls two-thirds of the Australian grocery market.
A similar case against Woolworths is expected to be heard at a later date.
The 10-day hearing in Melbourne will scrutinise pricing practices involving hundreds of products, from instant coffee to chocolate biscuits, over an extended period.
The regulator alleges that Coles temporarily inflated prices before marking the items as discounted under promotions like “Down Down,” in a practice known as “was/is” pricing.
Coles is defending the claims, arguing pricing was a response to increased costs from suppliers.
The case starts during a period of reigniting inflation, with groceries and other household costs rising strongly again."
#Coles #Shopping #News #Consumers #ACCC #PriceFixing #Corruption #Law #Supermarkets #Australia
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5/ A US federal district judge just dismissed the #antitrust case against six academic #publishers (Jan 30, 2026).
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmqlljdvr/24-cv-06409-HG%20Uddin%20v.%20Elsevier%20B.V.%20et%20al.pdfArticle about the dismissal:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/academic-publishers-defeat-lawsuit-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions-2026-01-30/"The four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."
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5/ A US federal district judge just dismissed the #antitrust case against six academic #publishers (Jan 30, 2026).
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmqlljdvr/24-cv-06409-HG%20Uddin%20v.%20Elsevier%20B.V.%20et%20al.pdfArticle about the dismissal:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/academic-publishers-defeat-lawsuit-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions-2026-01-30/"The four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."
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#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
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#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
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#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
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#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
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#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
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"The adtech problems drew a monopolization case, and Google lost that one too. And though the remedy is still to come, few think Google will be fundamentally restructured.
And that’s a tragedy, because the shift to AI is perhaps more significant than the shift to mobile. As with the early search market, there are several companies offering foundational AI services, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and so forth. The two key resources determining which model wins are, same as search before, data and distribution.
Google, as you’d expect, is repeating its search monopolization playbook with Gemini. It is self-preferencing Gemini across its lines of business, which is what it did with Android and search. It is cutting deals to insert Gemini into every major retail channel, which is analogous to its payments to phone makers to thwart rival search engines. Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what Judge Mehta found to be the original Apple-Google arrangement enabling the illegal monopolization of the search market.
Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the open web, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices
#Google #AI #LLMs #AISearch #PriceFixing #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust
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Exclusive: FTC probes Instacart's AI pricing tool, source says; shares drop | Reuters
#SurveillancePricing #Collusion #PriceFixing #Regulation #AI
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(25 Nov) Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement RealPage agrees to settle suit over DOJ claims software raised rents across the US. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/zebzl #antitrust-law #policy #price-fixing #realpage
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NC Newsline: North Carolina settles with Greystar in AI rent-fixing lawsuit. “A group of nine attorneys general, including North Carolina’s AG Jeff Jackson, said Thursday they had reached a settlement with the rental company Greystar. The group sued the company and several other property management firms earlier this year, alleging illegal rent fixing through the use of AI tools.”
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NC Newsline: North Carolina settles with Greystar in AI rent-fixing lawsuit. “A group of nine attorneys general, including North Carolina’s AG Jeff Jackson, said Thursday they had reached a settlement with the rental company Greystar. The group sued the company and several other property management firms earlier this year, alleging illegal rent fixing through the use of AI tools.”
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Chicago Sun-Times: Nation’s largest landlord, Greystar, settles price-fixing suit with feds . “In the settlement with Greystar, which still needs approval from a federal judge, Justice Department attorneys said the use of RealPage by Greystar was modern-day price fixing. They did not estimate the impact on renters, but one legal filing noted an apartment complex boasted of using RealPage […]
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Chicago Sun-Times: Nation’s largest landlord, Greystar, settles price-fixing suit with feds . “In the settlement with Greystar, which still needs approval from a federal judge, Justice Department attorneys said the use of RealPage by Greystar was modern-day price fixing. They did not estimate the impact on renters, but one legal filing noted an apartment complex boasted of using RealPage […]
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"Last week, the Department of Justice sued #RealPage, a technology company with an algorithm that helps #landlords push #rents as high as possible...
RealPage staffers... sell their software by saying things like 'our tool ensures that [landlords] are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.' And #rent has indeed gone up... almost 20 percent since 2020."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/biden-harris-doj-lawsuit-realpage