Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on the United States to rebuild its domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in order to end China’s monopoly on the drugs Americans rely on.
The coronavirus outbreak exposes the need to protect domestic medicine and medical supplies manufacturing as a “strategic national asset,” explains “China Rx” author Rosemary Gibson.
U.S. tech giant Apple has reportedly been fined €1.1 billion euros ($1.37 billion) by France’s competition watchdog for anticompetitive practices.
A recent report outlines how Google has successfully slowed Amazon’s efforts to move into the smart TV market. Google reportedly wielded its monopoly power over the Android operating system that controls most smart TVs to stop Amazon’s competition.
President Donald Trump’s economic advisers are skeptical about rewriting antitrust rules to tackle the growing power of tech giants, according to the latest annual Economic Report of the President. The Council of Economic Advisers argue that the monopolistic power wielded by the Masters of the Universe are signs of “competitive success.”
Rivals of tech giant Google have alleged that the app choice screen on its Android devices still heavily favors Google’s own apps.
Italy’s competition watchdog has reportedly launched proceedings against social media giant Facebook for non-compliance with previous requests relating to improper commercial practices in the site’s treatment of user data.
A group of companies behind now-defunct apps is suing Facebook, alleging that the company took part in an “anticompetitive scheme” that destroyed their business prospects.
The multistate antitrust probe of Google will reportedly not just include the company’s advertising business but will expand into the firm’s search and Android mobile OS products.
European antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager reportedly stated during a recent conference that Google’s efforts to drive more traffic to European comparison shopping rivals have failed.
The online review site Yelp is ramping up its long-standing feud with Google, saying in a new report that the search engine’s monopoly is not only hurting Yelp but is also hurting innovation and consumer choice in the digital marketplace.
New court documents reveal that tech giant Facebook reportedly began cutting off access to user data for app developers in 2012 to squash potential rivals. The company internally called this the “Switcheroo Plan.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook stated in a recent interview that “no reasonable person would ever call Apple a monopolist.”
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal alleges that Amazon altered its search algorithm to boost its own products, to the top.
CNBC published an article recently taking issue with Google’s argument that the tech giant competes with “lots of companies” in the advertising industry.
Hasbro has once again upgraded its iconic Monopoly board game, this time with a more feminine twist.
Hasbro, Inc. has created a version of its iconic Monopoly game that pokes fun at socialism, reports state.
Google’s job listing search tool has grown rapidly in popularity in recent months, but 23 rival job-finding sites are questioning the antitrust implications of the service.
The Supreme Court ruled against Apple in a recent lawsuit, allowing a case claiming that the company’s app store is a monopoly to go ahead.
Amazon competitors are reportedly embracing the company’s online store as some of them close hundreds of brick and mortar shops, opting to sell their products directly through Amazon due to benefits such as the company’s delivery system.
Google denied it held a monopoly on “online searches” and advertising following calls from an Australian regulator for “increased scrutiny” and greater monitoring of Big Tech companies.
Patrick Courrielche, host of Red Pilled America, warned conservatives of the danger of ignoring Silicon Valley’s “unprecedented” monopolistic power and increasing censorship over the flow of information. These threats challenge conservative orthodoxy about the government’s role in regulating private industries, he explained.
Hasbro, the toy and game company, recently launched a new edition of board game Monopoly which is targeted at millennials. The company’s target audience of young people does not seem to be reacting to Monopoly for Millennials as intended.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that given Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s rampant censorship practices, “something has to change,” and they are “going to look at this monopoly situation.”
In 2010, AT&T argued against the Comcast/NBC merger on the grounds that it would create the sort of unfair advantage that AT&T now seeks for itself in its merger with Time Warner.
President Donald Trump took aim at Amazon Monday morning, raising the possibility that the company could face antitrust legal problems and accusing it of using the U.S. Post Office as a “delivery boy.”
While testifying before Congress this week, Mark Zuckerberg stated that Facebook faces fierce competition in the marketplace from at least 8 major apps, but in fact, Facebook owns or has a version of each of the apps that supposedly threatens them.
“You don’t think you have a monopoly?” Graham asked.
“It certainly doesn’t feel like that to me,” Zuckerberg said.
Cue laughter.
Google is “coming after critics in academia and journalism,” according to the Washington Post, who added that the company “is forming into a government of itself.”
Covered California is effectively giving Blue Shield a monopoly over health insurance in almost a quarter of California counties.
