Call it a win for common sense, but Meta recently emerged victorious in its antitrust case against the Federal Trade Commission. The U.S. District Court affirmed what the reasonable already knew: Meta does not have a monopoly on social media and is in a constant battle to stay relevant amid competition from ever-changing directions. […]
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In his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired, John Malone writes of attending the 1979 Western Show out in Anaheim, CA. What the TCI CEO witnessed fascinated him, but also terrified him. It was a proliferation of television stations sprouting up to meet the needs of a still small, but growing cable TV subscriber
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With its antitrust lawsuit against Meta, the FTC’s goal is to force the sale of WhatsApp and Instagram, Meta’s up-to-now most successful acquisitions. Wise minds inside the Trump administration will hopefully choose to drop a suit first introduced during by a Biden administration reflexively disdainful of big. While the economic boom of the 1980s
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“Do you honestly think you’re going to replace this?” The previous question should be printed and framed in poster-sized fashion at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust trust division. The question itself was actually posed to Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon, back in the early days of the internet. The president of the Toronto Star was
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Visa is one of the country’s most accepted credit and debit cards, with the company’s motto boasting: “Everywhere you want to be.” To the federal government, Visa’s widespread utility for cardholders is a bad thing. Visa is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the Department of Justice, which accuses the company of acting like a monopoly.
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