Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.
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Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust’s report and recommendations based on its 17-month investigation of America’s largest tech companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
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Congress implored to act swiftly to rein in Big Tech’s anti-competitive behavior and acquisitions at the October, 2020, House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing.
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Open Markets Institute’s report, “Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power,” illustrates the dangers of Amazon’s pervasive worker surveillance and the solutions that can be employed to stop that surveillance.
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New report details the dangers of Amazon’s pervasive worker surveillance and proposes solutions that stop surveillance and increase worker power.
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Open Markets’ report uncovers true culprit of book shortage: destructive mergers.
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Government’s failure to prohibit platform monopolists from discriminating exemplified in Amazon’s continued anti-competitive behavior against publishers and authors.
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Open Markets Institute offers a short history of its work – on Amazon alone – to show how long Amazon has been building power, and why it is vital to fix Big Tech now.
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Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.
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Bloomberg quotes Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets, on rising concentration in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn is interviewed in the Feb. 18 episode of the PBS documentary series Frontline, titled “Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos.”
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"We strongly support the entrepreneurs and independent businesses who are standing up to challenge the dominance of Facebook, Amazon, and Google over America’s markets," said Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn in a statement today.
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Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard spoke to The Washington Post about why smaller technology companies have not been more outspoken regarding the anti-competitive practices of larger technology companies ahead of a House Antitrust Subcommittee field hearing taking place in Colorado where smaller tech firm leaders will have an opportunity to testify. “We don’t often hear from those entrepreneurs because they can't afford to speak out, we haven’t had a look under the hood of these companies,” Hubbard said.
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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.
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Prospect: 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.
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The 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.
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Voice of America’s Michelle Quinn reports that the “era of Silicon Valley’s operating largely free from government may be coming to an end.”
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The 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.”
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