In this issue, we dissect the Department of Justice’s painstakingly constructed case against Google for the illegal stranglehold it maintains over the digital advertising market and in doing so, explain how the ad tech market works.
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Reporter Karina Montoya writes how Amazon prepares to capture another market powered by AWS.
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View the discussion on the issues and opportunities raised in a recent commissioned article in the Washington Monthly, “Jeff Bezos’ Next Monopoly: The Press.”
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In this issue, we explore the ramifications of Amazon’s takeover of One Medical, which broaches both antitrust and privacy issues.
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Sandeep Vaheesan provides a comment on OMI’s statement on the FTC’s Move to Stop Facebook From Acquiring VR App Maker Within.
Barry Lynn broadcasts a statement on behalf of Open Markets condemning Amazon’s announcement to buy 1Life Healthcare Inc., creating a new set of antitrust issues in the healthcare sector.
Chief economist Brian Callaci draws points on the real reason’s that Amazon can put forth such monumental product output: the exploitation of workers beyond limitation.
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Open Markets strengthens calls to regulators to move to protect the public from AWS in light of outage and the NASDAQ announcement.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci illustrates how Amazon’s new “franchising model” for trucking companies is really a way for the corporation to pay lower wages and outsource risk.
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New paper reveals major escalations of Amazon’s invasive worker surveillance.
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This research paper is an update to Open Markets’ 2020 report, “Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power,” and details Amazon’s further attempts to amplify and widen employee monitoring into September 2021.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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Check out our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series illustrating the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available here→
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New report enumerates a plethora of predatory, exclusionary, and unfair practices that Amazon implements to surveil its competitors and consumers.
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Open Markets Institute releases a sequel report on Amazon’s surveillance—This time documenting the scale and scope of Amazon’s consumer and competitor surveillance operations, their adverse impacts, and how to make Amazon stop.
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Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, guest features on a podcast to discuss California’s Proposition 22 ballot initiative and Big Tech at large.
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The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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