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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With Amazon, it was never about the books. No doubt Amazon began as an online bookseller, but what made its stock attractive through years of losses is what books represented. If Amazon could modernize buying habits with an online bookstore, it could eventually be what it became: an everything store. Markets are a look
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Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what’s obvious very much calls into question the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook. Ok, but why the name change? Kodak is still Kodak, U.S. Steel is still U.S. Steel, and in a sense RCA is
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In 1998, fast-food giant McDonald’s invested in a small Colorado burrito chain with just sixteen restaurants: Chipotle. Under McDonald’s leadership over the next seven years — and with an investment of $340 million — Chipotle expanded from its humble Colorado beginnings to over 500 restaurants nationwide. McDonald’s later sold its investment as Chipotle became
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When Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, the deal wasn’t seen as obvious or a slam dunk… for Facebook. Which is a statement of the obvious, one abundantly proven by modern estimates that place Instagram’s standalone value at something north of $100 billion. Which brings us to another statement of the obvious,
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The EU is presently trying to limit a prominent source of income for Meta. The biggest victims will be European businesses. The EU wants to force Meta to provide Facebook and Instagram to users for free, even if they choose to navigate both without ads. Translated, the EU’s actions amount to a price control.
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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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In the 1860s the first transcontinental cable was laid on the ocean floor. While it miraculously connected North America with Europe, communication via the connection was only affordable to the richest of the very rich. If you wanted to send word or news to Europe the cost was $10 per word, with a 10-word
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