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Jun 07 2023
News
LIV Golf’s Monopoly Marriage to PGA Seen Drawing Antitrust Fire
Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia-backed challenger LIV Golf avoided calling their proposed partnership a merger. But their shock announcement is already raising serious concerns with US and European antitrust enforcers, according to people familiar with the matter. The tie-up, which was announced Tuesday, is
BloombergDec 14 2021
Background
Left-Leaning Media Seek a Misinformation Monopoly
Kyle Rittenhouse is a domestic terrorist. Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. Donald Trump won in 2016 only because he colluded with the Kremlin. Nick Sandmann, the boy from Covington Catholic High School on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, was an entitled white bigot. Mr. Trump said the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville were “good people.” Last year’s riots were mostly peaceful. Unarmed black men are
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Nov 29 2021
Background
Left-Leaning Media Seek a Misinformation Monopoly
Kyle Rittenhouse is a domestic terrorist. Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. Donald Trump won in 2016 only because he colluded with the Kremlin. Nick Sandmann, the boy from Covington Catholic High School on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, was an entitled white bigot. Mr. Trump said the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville were “good people.” Last year’s riots were mostly peaceful. Unarmed black
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Apr 22 2021
News
Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
Senators have grilled Apple and Google in Washington over "anti-competitive" behaviour related to their app stores.
Representatives from Tile, Spotify and Match also gave evidence, accusing the two tech firms of charging exorbitant fees and copying their ideas.
Both Apple and Google's app stores charge fees of up to 30% for in-app purchases.
The two companies said the fees
BBC NewsMay 11 2022
Fact Check
Post Misrepresents Democrats’ History of Opposing Platform Monopolies
Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy Twitter was criticized by several prominent Democrats. But a social media post misleadingly claims Democrats didn’t speak out against companies buying out competitors and creating monopolies until Musk bought Twitter. Democrats have opposed monopoly power and encouraged competition for years.
On April 25, Twitter’s board of directors agreed to sell
FactCheck.orgMar 09 2023
News
Community Chest: Monopoly seeks public input on new Richmond game
But in order to do so, Hasbro licensee Top Trumps USA, who is tasked with creating the board, will need to hear from Richmonders just what those signature sites are. The company is asking residents to land on chance, draw a card and submit their ideas at richmond@toptrumps.com as to what they’d like to see featured on the Richmond Monopoly game. Instead of Park Place, players could land on
Richmond Times DispatchSep 13 2023
News
Google Antitrust Lawsuit: DOJ Claims Internet Giant Uses 'Feedback Loop' of Payoffs to Maintain Monopoly Power
The Department of Justice, along with a coalition of state attorneys general, has initiated a groundbreaking antitrust trial against tech giant Google, accusing the company of maintaining a monopoly in the search engine market through strategic barriers and “feedback loops” of paying device makers to defend its power. CNBC reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of state
Breitbart NewsSep 12 2023
News
Google antitrust trial: DOJ claims tech giant pays over $10B yearly to keep search monopoly
The US Justice Department’s epic trial against Google kicked off on Tuesday with the DOJ claiming that the tech giant “pays more than $10 billion per year” to companies including Apple to protect the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine. “This feedback loop, this wheel, has been turning for more than 12 years,” the DOJ’s lead attorney Kenneth Dintzer said during opening statements in a
New York Post (News)Apr 18 2024
Opinion
NPR’s Problems Won’t Be Solved by “Viewpoint Diversity”
I’ve never liked NPR. Throughout its long and venerable half-century run, the public radio network has served as a seamless delivery system for lifestyle smugness. When my mother would reflexively flip it on during long car rides in my adolescence, I’d greet its confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels of cultural consensus in the same manner I did all parent-approved meditations on
The NationJul 09 2021
Analysis
These 7 markets will be the target of Biden’s new anti-monopoly executive order
President Biden will sign an executive order Friday afternoon that takes aim at what the White House describes as the growing problem of corporate consolidation in U.S. and the higher prices, lower wages and reduced choice it imposes on workers and consumers.
The move is the latest salvo in a deepening war between the federal and state governments and big business over monopoly power
MarketWatch