antitrust

Internal divides cloud tech industry’s antitrust defense

Leave a Comment / technology / By max cyril

In July, the head of a leading tech lobbying group published a warning against overly broad antitrust investigations that “could jeopardize American companies’ leadership” — a message that came amid rising regulatory heat on the group’s members Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook. But it soon became clear that some in the Information Technology Industry Council didn’t want …

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Breaking Up Amazon Doesn’t Go Far Enough—We Must Put It Under Public Control

Leave a Comment / antitrust / By max cyril

What should be done with Amazon? While some parts of the company should indeed be broken up, its sprawling scale is not its only problem. Much of what Amazon does is harmful for reasons inherent to the logic of private ownership, and would remain so at any scale. While the public probably does not need to …

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Tech Companies Ordered To Pay Employees $415 Million For Working Together To Lower Wages

Leave a Comment / antitrust, Class Action / By max cyril

A U.S. District Court finalized a $415 million wage settlement for tech workers Wednesday after four-years of litigation. Nearly 65,000 employees for Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit in 2011 after the government uncovered emails between Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and other executives that …

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Internal divides cloud tech industry’s antitrust defense

Breaking Up Amazon Doesn’t Go Far Enough—We Must Put It Under Public Control

Tech Companies Ordered To Pay Employees $415 Million For Working Together To Lower Wages

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