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www.theverge.com
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| | | | | How big is too big? And when does a company become so big that the government is forced to step in and make it smaller? Politicians have been struggling with those questions for at least a hundred years. But as the latest generation of tech companies has taken shape, the questions are becoming more and more relevant to internet giants like Google and Facebook. There's a new movement in Washington to break up those companies, whether through a Justice Department lawsuit or an old-school appeal to the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's a struggle Microsoft fended off in the '90s, and it has only grown more urgent in the years since. As Amazon has taken a stranglehold of online retail, Jeff Bezos' company has started to attract antitrust attention as well, with figure... | |
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www.eff.org
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| | | | | ¿Podemos hacer que Google deje de ser sinónimo de búsqueda y que otros motores de búsqueda tengan una oportunidad real de competir? La demanda antimonopolio presentada por ambos partidos políticos en Estados Unidos contra Google, que cuestiona las muchas formas en que Google ha mantenido su monopolio en el ámbito de las búsquedas, ofrece una oportunidad. | |
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tribunemag.co.uk
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| | | | | The 'big five' tech giants - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft - have extraordinary control over our lives. Regulating them isn't enough, they have to be brought under democratic public ownership. | |
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www.loweringthebar.net
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| | | Dongmei Li, one of the many consumers who bought the original iPhone for $599 only to see the price go down to $399 two months later, has now sued Apple on behalf of herself and other "early a... | ||
