In this issue, we discuss the need to protect the child care industry from private equity powers looking for quick profit, particularly with an increase in public subsidies to support the critical sector.
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In this issue, we explore the impact a recent court ruling dismissing allegations of algorithmic price-fixing might have on similar cases such as the one against real estate software company RealPage.
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In this issue, we explore the need for regulation mandating the disclosure of increasingly prevalent AI-generated content by major tech platforms.
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In this issue, we examine whether comments made by the presiding judge in the Google Search trial indicate that the court may be considering structural remedies for the tech giant, such as divestment of certain business units.
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In this issue, we explore what news publishers seeking to be paid by Google and Facebook for news can learn from broadcast media’s fight with cable providers in a previous era.
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In this issue, we describe the UK’s efforts to block the United Arab Emirates from pushing into the country’s media market, and ask whether this offers a model for how the U.S. can handle foreign investment of U.S. media assets.
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In this issue, we broaden the conversation past TikTok to the myriad ways tech platforms and their data-collection practices harm Americans.
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In this issue, we sound the alarm on Amazon’s rapidly growing ad business, which hit record revenues last year and should be cause for concern for U.S. antitrust enforcers.
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In this issue, we preview Google’s September trial, at which the Department of Justice will lay out its antitrust case against the tech giant for its dominance over the digital advertising, or ad tech, market.
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In this issue, we explore new antitrust reforms in Canada, which brings the country in line with recent antimonopoly initiatives in the U.S. and Europe.
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In this issue, we identify the real cause behind this year’s recent wave of layoffs and shutdown in journalism, which is the monopoly power of Google and Facebook.
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In this issue, we preview what to expect from the antimonopoly movement in 2024, predicting more aggressive actions against mergers and a deflation of the AI hype.
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Welcome to our final installment of The Corner for 2023. Over the course of the year, our team continued to drive the reinvigoration of antimonopoly law around the world, as well as policies reining in Big Tech. See some of the ways we did so below.
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In this issue, we explore how private equity titans have set their sights on the care economy, deploying classic rollup strategies to limit competition and raise prices. We also launch two new papers on the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) making the case for the U.S. government to revive enforcement of the RPA in order to help build a fairer, more open, and more decentralized economy.
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In this issue, we explore a novel approach by Danish publishers to claw back funds from tech giants who have monopolized their advertising revenues. We also introduce our report “AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat,” which shows how a handful of Big Tech companies have already monopolized the emerging AI space.
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In this issue, we explore new revelations about how Amazon’s internal ads business aims to deceive buyers and to hurt sellers on its marketplace. We also introduce our seminal report on how to save journalism from Google and Facebook’s destructive business models, which are designed to monopolize all advertising.
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In this issue, we explore the recently passed California Delete Act, aimed at curbing the rampant and invasive collection and sale of personal data by so-called data brokers. Open Markets also filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to put an end to a century-old baseball antitrust exemption.
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In this issue, we preview two other antitrust cases against Google, both focused on monopolistic practices related to its Play Store.
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