Publications
Associated Press Reporter Marcy Gordon sits down and interviews Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about her take on the need for greater antitrust enforcement. With the biggest tech companies under government investigation for alleged anti-competitive conduct, her analysis speaks to an issue of growing urgency.
Read MoreProspect: Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a well-deserved victory lap after Amazon announced it would be opening new corporate offices in New York City, months after it pulled out of opening a second headquarters in the area.
Read MoreThe New York Times' Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi report that home-speaker maker Sonos said Google and Amazon stole its technology and abused their power, but it could only risk suing one. "The fear of retaliation is a real fear. Any of these companies could bury them tomorrow. Google could bury them in their search results. Amazon can bury them in their search results,” Sally Hubbard told them.
Read MoreVoice of America’s Michelle Quinn reports that the “era of Silicon Valley’s operating largely free from government may be coming to an end.”
Read MoreThe New York Times' Steve Lohr, who has covered the tech industry for more than two decades, explains how we may be entering a progressive era of antitrust. He speaks with Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn on the changing political landscape. “The environment is radically different than it was even a year or two ago,” Lynn told him. “It’s a grass-roots rebellion against concentrated power.”
Read MoreA reporter who has covered the tech industry for more than two decades explains how we may be entering a progressive era of antitrust.
Read MoreThe New York Times' Natasha Singer "reviews the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry." She cites Open Markets' Researcher and Reporter Matthew Buck's piece on the Washington Monthly, which argues that Amazon, Google and Facebook should stay out of health care, among "Stories You Shouldn't Miss."
Read MoreThe Washington Post's Tony Romm reports that regulators probing Facebook for violations of antitrust law have considered seeking a preliminary injunction against the company, aiming to halt the tech giant’s plans to integrate its social-networking app with the other services it owns. “At a time when Facebook is under scrutiny for its monopoly power and its abuses of its power, to say it’s going to integrate these three platforms is just another monopoly grab,” Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard told him.
Read MoreTony Romm of The Washington Post reports on the federal investigation of Facebook’s antitrust violations and quotes Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at Open Markets Institute, opposing Facebook’s talk of integrating Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Read MoreRoger Parloff reports in Yahoo! Finance about the antitrust backlash against Big Tech and credits Open Markets Institute for elevating the issue and changing the debate.
Read MoreOn Yahoo Finance, Roger Parloff tells the story of how America has come to a turning point in its views of antitrust. He tracks the origins of the progressive neo-Brandesian movement and how key figures have played leading roles in igniting the Big Tech antitrust backlash in Washington including Tim Wu, Barry Lynn, Lina Khan, Matt Stoller, and Luther Lowe. Parloff quotes Former FTC chair William E. Kovacic who commented: "In five years, Barry and his group have changed the debate. They’ve gone from being a largely unnoticed fringe body of commentary to being at the very center of the debate.”
Read MoreDavid Streitfeld reports in The New York Times about the grassroots movement to stop Amazon and quotes Barry Lynn of Open Markets Institute on the Athena coalition.
Read MoreAhead of Thanksgiving, Open Markets' Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway speaks with Bloomberg law about consolidation among poultry producers and how price fixing is only made easier for them. "Turkey, an $18 billion industry, is one of the lone proteins not subject to any publicly known federal investigation or private suit" reports Bloomberg Law "Even though many top U.S. turkey producers, such as Cargill Inc. and Tyson Foods, allegedly sought to fix prices of other foods.
Read MoreThe Hill reports on Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), chairman of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, pressing top officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Google's proposed acquisition of fitness tracking company Fitbit. Cicilline cited a letter by Open Markets and eight other public interest submitted to the FTC calling for the acquisition to be blocked.
Read MoreWIRED's Gilad Edelman writes that Google's moves into health data will test how serious antitrust enforcers are about privacy issues. “These promises about what they’re going to do with data in the context of merger approvals deserve absolutely no weight,” Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard told WIRED. “Especially when you’re talking about a company that has persistently violated the privacy laws, been repeatedly fined—a persistent recidivist when it comes to privacy violations.”
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