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Internet/Telecom
Why US Antitrust Non-Enforcement Produces Online Winner-Take-All Platforms
by Scott Cleland June 25, 2017If one considers the evidence, it is evident that U.S. antitrust enforcers have enabled the current “new normal” of online winner-take-all platforms.
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Alphabet-Google Big Takeaways from Trump Antitrust Chief’s Senate Answers
by Scott Cleland June 2, 2017Reportedly the EU will rule Google has abused its search dominance this summer, putting the growth and profitability of the ~30% European part of Alphabet-Google’s revenue base at risk.
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Google Fiber Cashing Government Checks – Bypassing Poor Neighborhoods Anyway
by Seton Motley November 12, 2016Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a current market cap value of $544 billion. The entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Taiwan is $524 billion.
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Google Fiber looks like dead business model walking.
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7 Top Takeaways from EU’s Google-Android-Tying Charges
by Scott Cleland April 25, 2016The European Commission has charged Alphabet-Google with abusing its dominance in the market for “general Internet search services,” by implementing an Android “strategy of mobile devices to preserve and strengthen its dominance in general Internet search.” The EU objects to a variety of secret Google contract conditions to manufacturer licenses to leverage the dominant (>90% share) Android OS to secretly restrict and foreclose competition in ways that ultimately harm consumer choice and innovation. The EU effectively charged that Google has already anticompetitively extended its >90% dominance in search to dominance in the >90% share of the “licensable smart mobile operating system,” and to dominance in the >90% share of the “app stores for the Android” market.
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Is Google-Alphabet’s Restructuring about Antitrust and Privacy After All?
by Scott Cleland October 24, 2015What we have learned in the last two months is that Google is much more worried than it says about the risks it faces from a variety of real structural changes it may have to make in its core business overseas in the months and years ahead — where the vast majority of Google’s users are, and from where over 50% of its revenues come.