Senior reporter Karina Montoya offers a breakdown of the key points from the recent ruling of Judge Mehta in the trial against Google’s illegal online search and advertising monopoly.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn and CJL director Courtney Radsch released statements after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google has violated the Sherman Act by illegally maintaining its monopoly in general online search and search text advertising.
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In this issue, we explore how antitrust enforcers around the world are cracking down on tricks Big Tech uses to dodge merger review.
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Open Markets Institute’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in The American Prospect in an article on private equity investors entering the college sports market.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gave an interview to PlayerFM’s podcast Money on the Left to discuss his upcoming book Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Europe director Max von Thun published an article on the collusive behavior by Big Tech firms that leads to poor product quality, such as Google’s AI hallucinations.
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Open Markets’ editorial director Anita Jain wrote a review of the book The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government, a nonfiction account of the excesses of the lobbying industry
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley provides comprehensive insight on the unfair practices of employers using non-compete agreements and TRAPs, and the advancements in the removal of these practices by the FTC.
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OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in an article in the New York Times on algorithmic price-fixing by companies like RealPage, which helps landlords collude to set rent.
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The New York Times quoted a statement by Open Markets Institute’s Europe director Max von Thun on the global CrowdStrike outage, potentially the biggest in history.
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In this issue, we explain the importance of streaming television service Fubo’s lawsuit against three major entertainment companies poised to monopolize the live sport programming market with a new venture.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun weighs in on today’s widespread IT outage and how it exposes the great risk in monopolistic corporations controlling our communications systems.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, and Brian Callaci, chief economist co-authored a piece about judicial changes to antitrust law that has taken a more permissive approach to coercion and exploitation affecting worker wages.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gives insight on how concentration in the electric power sector is one of the main sources to the greenhouse gas emission crisis, which in turn, contributes to frequent periods of exceptionally high temperatures, climate change, and natural disasters.
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CJL director Dr. Courtny Radsch wrote an opinion piece that lays out the problems and solutions of Big Tech’s latest AI technology being built to inherently exploit the intellectual property of journalists resulting in writer’s unemployment, revenue loss, and more.
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In this issue, we explore how hedge funds degrade freight railroads by stripping operators of valuable assets and skilled workers.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun’s recent article in ProMarket was cited in The Brookings Institute, which dismissed the notion of creating European champions.
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