What might be the future effects of their market dominance?
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But it represents the latest challenge to their market dominance.
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This year, it's continuing to exude its stock market dominance.
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In response to Perault's apparent ignorance of Facebook's market dominance, Rep.
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But Audible's particular success is largely tied to Amazon's market dominance.
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Even with its market dominance, AWS is still recording explosive growth.
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This trend to higher profitability and market dominance can cause problems.
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DBS's market dominance was essential to forging these relationships, says Mr Gupta.
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And that, said analyst Peterson, is triggering "a war" for market dominance.
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I also had no scale, little cash flow, and no market dominance.
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When someone gets market dominance, how then they start to destroy competition.
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These companies have translated vast scale into market dominance and soaring revenues.
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The token's market dominance stood at about 40 percent as of Wednesday.
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Qualcomm argued during the trial that it achieved market dominance through technological leadership.
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Or should antitrust law take a heavier hand to stop such market dominance?
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Because Juul has market dominance, they stand to benefit from an ultimate ban.
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They're only able to do that because they have so much market dominance.
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Commentators often conflate ubiquity, or narrow market dominance, with a broad-based monopoly.
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It was about market dominance and the software giant's tactics to stifle innovation.
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But the commission dislikes NS2 and distrusts Gazprom, which it thinks abuses market dominance.
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Google's market dominance would only be reinforced, along with the temptation to corporate sloth.
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New-economy behemoths are exercising a market dominance not seen since America's robber barons.
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But while market dominance is hard to break, that doesn't stop upstarts from trying.
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In the US in particular, Uber's market dominance could be slipping, new data shows.
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This is how Facebook usurped our privacy: with the help of its market dominance.
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"Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under E.U. antitrust rules," the ruling states.
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France has fined Google 150 million euros ($166 million) for abusing its market dominance.
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The European Commission says Google has abused its Android market dominance in three key areas.
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But whichever theory is right, emerging-market dominance has been exposed as anything but inevitable.
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Market dominance is more important than ever as ride-hailing startups look to turn a profit.
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The European Commission in its July decision said Google had abused its market dominance since 2011.
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Google has abused its market dominance by imposing restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites.
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The EU is said to be set to conclude that Google abused its search market dominance.
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But the Communications Ministry has refused on grounds Bezeq may use its market dominance to stifle competition.
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Some argue, however, that the regulatory framework needs to adjust for a new kind of market dominance.
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The rise of Amazon, and its overwhelming market dominance, has accelerated the collapse of traditional retail outlets.
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A few points better on margins, thanks to battery technology, is not enough to assure market dominance.
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These companies are in a race for market dominance around the world, and the gloves are off.
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The European Union fined Google $5.1 billion in July for abusing its market dominance in smartphone software.
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He pointed out that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Big Tech's market dominance and power.
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The European Commission has been investigating Android after rivals complained that Google has been abusing its market dominance.
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The ruling cites deals with Samsung, Huawei, HTC, and others as evidence of Google abusing its market dominance.
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It cites environmental concerns, but may be rather more motivated by a desire to maintain its market dominance.
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Intel now faces a fight for its future as competitors continue to fight against the company's market dominance.
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If Uber were to achieve market dominance, it would have a strong incentive to charge much higher fares.
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There are good reasons to be concerned about market dominance — it limits consumer choice and often increases prices.
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Some of Facebook's biggest acquisitions present a case study of acquiring one's way to nearly insurmountable market dominance.
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Like Amazon, SoftBank is known for pushing executives to think bigger and bolder, trading profits for market dominance.
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"It makes it more difficult to oppose Nord Stream 2 on the basis of market dominance," he said.
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But even so, Amazon is so far only exhibiting signs of market dominance in the market for books.
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And in a free-market system, banks have a natural drive to achieve market dominance and increase profits.
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Valued at $10 billion by several estimates, the country already has multiple cab services fighting for market dominance.
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By my estimates, however, it's clear bitcoin's market dominance should return to 75 percent of the entire space.
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Cable companies have struggled to respond to telecom rivals' internet-based TV services, which have eroded their market dominance.
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In the past the DoJ has been more concerned with horizontal mergers that create market dominance in one industry.
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Germany's antitrust watchdog ruled on Thursday that Facebook abused its market dominance in collecting, merging and using user data.
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That came amid a battle for market dominance centered around America's global campaign against countries installing China's 5G gear.
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The companies were repeatedly pressed to answer for their market dominance and reports of anti-competitive tactics, with Rep.
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Intel was imposed with a fine in May 213, for abusing its market dominance on central processing units (CPUs).
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In turn, the threat of market dominance spawned rules, regulations, and even entire government agencies dedicated to promoting competition.
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This week's decision may precede more moves from regulators to cut down on tech firms' market dominance, experts said.
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The European Commission fined Qualcomm $1.24 billion for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets earlier this year.
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In its Maps API, Google has long offered a free or very cheap product, allowing it to achieve market dominance.
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This latest data by the government shows how its market dominance is solidifying — no matter what the Trump administration does.
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The previous summer it handed Google a $2.7 billion fine for abusing its market dominance with its comparison shopping service.
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Samsung and Xiaomi have market dominance in India, together making up about 60 percent of the country's mobile phone market.
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Last week Germany's antitrust watchdog ruled Facebook had abused its market dominance in how it collects and merges user data.
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OxyContin's market dominance and its high price — up to hundreds of dollars per bottle — hinge on its 12-hour duration.
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Getty alleges that the search company has abused its market dominance, and is urging other photographers to join its cause.
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Margrethe Vestager, Europe's competition commissioner, revealed last week that her office had opened a preliminary inquiry into Amazon's market dominance.
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The world's biggest truck-maker has unveiled two new battery-powered models, as it looks to protect its market dominance.
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This in turn has instigated a parallel flurry of insurance mergers to counter the market dominance of large health systems.
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Some other Big Food peers have been slimming down as their market dominance is threatened by smaller, nimble upstart brands.
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While the company continues to print money, Congress, state attorneys general, and federal antitrust regulators are scrutinizing its market dominance.
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Some agree the privacy challenges haven't been thought through; others believe Epic is opportunistically trying to protect its market dominance.
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It has Alexa and Kindle, sure, but it feels strangely like an also-ran in these spaces, despite enjoying market dominance.
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Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Justice Department is studying the market dominance of the company's DoubleClick platform.
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But antitrust law is a blunt instrument meant to be used in cases of obvious market dominance that's clearly hurting consumers.
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Prompted by the market dominance of Facebook, Google and the like, the European Commission set out suggestions for regulating online platforms.
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EU officials are expected to announce in the coming weeks that Google abused its market dominance to build its shopping service.
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The question is, how does the competition catch up in the face of this market dominance and pure power to innovate?
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Regulators claimed that the company abused its search market dominance to give its Google Shopping service an advantage over other retailers.
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And like Saudi Arabia has done in oil, Gazprom has shown it can use its market dominance to squeeze its competitors.
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Her campaign said it was a sign of Google's meddling in the election, using its market dominance to influence political discourse.
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Now, with giant corporations worrying more about market dominance and regulators than about feel-good missions, that kumbaya sensibility is gone.
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It promises investors that it can buy its way to market dominance and use cutting-edge tech to find unglimpsed efficiencies.
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It promises investors that it can buy its way to market dominance and use cutting-edge tech to find unglimpsed efficiencies.
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He also raised concerns about Amazon's market dominance and said that public officials should not be courting corporations with taxpayer money.
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Amazon's size and market dominance have given it the ability to walk away from even a multibillion-dollar deal relatively painlessly.
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New York (CNN Business)Federal regulators may be inching closer to probing the market dominance of some of the largest technology companies.
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The European Commission fined BEH 77 million euros ($88 million) in December, saying the company abused its market dominance to hinder competition.
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Austria's competition authority said on Thursday it has begun investigating whether Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in relation to other retailers.
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As Facebook expands, however, it will face two tough issues that come with its particular type of triumph: market dominance and privacy.
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There's a prospective future in which Amazon has throttled its competitors to establish total market dominance — and then charge whatever it wants.
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Over the last two months, nearly every state and territory has announced investigations into the market dominance of Facebook, Google, or both.
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Mr. Hughes describes the breathtaking power that Mark Zuckerberg has amassed through a combination of market dominance and lack of regulatory oversight.
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He is expected to discuss the company's work in China, its market dominance and allegations of political bias in its search results.
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In the previous quarter, Alphabet swallowed a $5.1 billion fine from the European Union for abusing its market dominance in smartphone software.
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The project will extend its focus beyond Facebook and Big Tech to combat market dominance across industries with investments until March 2021.
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By March 1998, when Mr. Gates appeared in Congress, Microsoft seemed all but invincible, its market dominance and ambitions at their peak.
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A day earlier, representatives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were sharply criticized by lawmakers in Washington over the companies' market dominance.
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To maintain market dominance and grow its user base, Roku sells its devices for cheap, making hardware sales a low-profit venture.
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For consumer technology companies like Amazon, Apple and Alphabet, meeting the needs of aging Baby Boomers is key to retaining market dominance.
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The DOJ has announced a broad probe into market dominance in the tech industry that could include all those companies and more.
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Granted, as promising as many of these products are, it'll take a lot to upend the sheer market dominance of the vibrator.
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"We will strengthen our market dominance through expanding our premium home appliance lineup in the third quarter," it said in an earnings statement.
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Even in this startup pitch competition there are two HR companies that sound very similar; getting market dominance will be a real challenge.
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Whereas Target is only one of many physical store chains, Amazon enjoys market dominance as a web retailer, and hence attracts more attention.
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Germany's antitrust authority launched an investigation into whether Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retailers in November.
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But now that market dominance has been achieved and its risks are readily apparent, it's time to set real limits on Facebook's power.
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And, despite the company's strenuous apologies, it is continuing to push the boundaries of privacy to ensure that its market dominance remains unchallenged.
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The simple fact that GuiaBolso could raise the amount of capital it did (Latin America's largest round) speaks to the company's market dominance.
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It also comes at a time when companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon face intense scrutiny over the effects of their market dominance.
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Google now has to pay up €2.4 billion (around $2.7 billion) for what the European Commission deems an abuse of its market dominance.
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The EU's enforcement arm, the European Commission, proposed the fine over a number of antitrust disputes involving Intel's alleged market dominance in Europe.
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Intel, which has been determined to reduce Qualcomm's market dominance in wireless chips, has also significantly stepped up efforts to influence 5G standards.
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The lawsuit comes at a time when tech companies, including Amazon, are facing anti-trust scrutiny from Capitol Hill about their market dominance.
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It said e-commerce titans like Amazon use their market dominance to price "below cost," making it hard for other businesses to compete.
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Such a system would allow smaller companies to make individual pieces of networking equipment that interact with one another, breaking Huawei's market dominance.
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Markets are playing fields where finding and maintaining control of supply and distribution is the ultimate goal and the foundation of market dominance.
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Facebook also faces probes from attorneys general in almost all 50 states over antitrust concerns involving the company's market dominance and business practices.
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Cicilline has been among Zuckerberg's top critics in Congress, hammering the tech executive for his company's market dominance and series of privacy breaches.
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New York (CNN Business)Microsoft's market dominance is extraordinary at a time when so much focus is on the immense power of Big Tech.
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China's export reticence and market dominance has spooked manufacturers, including Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp, which said it is moving to find fresh supply.
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Intel is in an odd position of market dominance and emerging threats that, in many ways, echos Microsoft's position before Satya Nadella took over.
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The European Commission has been investigating Android after rivals complained that Google has been abusing its market dominance in software than runs on smartphones.
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This is a crucial insight: Only the social platforms that survive the transition from cool new property to essential utility can maintain market dominance.
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She said in both cases, the companies benefit from market dominance rather than winning against competition based on providing a superior product or service.
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By building in high-powered processors, as well as computing cores for things like artificial intelligence, MediaTek is seeking to challenge Qualcomm's market dominance.
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Pannier-Runacher, a former executive at auto equipment maker Faurecia, said that Amazon's potential market dominance could eventually push it to increase its prices.
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In essence, these old-economy companies are manipulating laws and lawmakers in order to slow-down tech-enabled competition that threatens their market dominance.
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That's just using market dominance, not because they had a better product or because they were somehow more customer-friendly or in a better place.
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In a decision announced Tuesday, the EC said that Google indeed "abused its market dominance" in giving an "illegal advantage" to its own shopping service.
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Germany's national competition regulator has ordered Facebook to change its practices on data collection after ruling the social media giant has abused its market dominance.
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Some traders suggested the proposed price would be unacceptable to big buyers, whose market dominance gives them a fair amount of clout in expected negotiations.
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In a statement, competition regulators say Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine to steer customers to its own Google Shopping platform.
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" But, but, but: "That may not be true in the future: If market dominance means fewer competitors and less innovation, consumers will be worse off.
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Today, Google steps up its public efforts to diminish European concerns over its mobile market dominance, and it's doing it with the power of GIFs.
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Believers in putting market dominance before profits got their biggest IPO opportunity perhaps ever last week, with Uber's much-awaited dud of a market debut.
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The company has been drawing increasing scrutiny from lawmakers over its working conditions, efforts to supply facial recognition technology to law enforcement and market dominance.
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The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, is leading a group of 46 states and territories examining the company's market dominance and privacy practices.
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China has used the move as a justification to push back against the market dominance of American companies like Cisco, IBM and Qualcomm in China.
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The group of 85033 attorneys general investigating Google's market dominance will also probe the company's search and Android businesses, expanding their investigation, according to CNBC.
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The agency cites the decline of physical mail and the rising cost burden of retiree benefits — not Amazon's market dominance — as reasons for the blow.
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Google has abused its market dominance in its search engine by promoting its own shopping comparison site in its search results and demoting its competitors.
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More from Mr. Ip: If market dominance means fewer competitors and less innovation, consumers will be worse off than if those companies had been restrained.
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As the top European official enforcing competition laws, Ms. Vestager has primarily concentrated on how a range of companies use, or abuse, their market dominance.
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Getty Images on Wednesday filed a complaint against Google at the European Commission, accusing the search giant of promoting piracy to solidify its market dominance.
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In a later series of tweets, Warren noted that Facebook has built more market dominance in recent years by acquiring potential competitors WhatsApp and Instagram.
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The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee has spent months collecting documents and testimony from small-to medium-sized businesses as it investigates Big Tech's market dominance.
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Regulators and lawmakers around the world are scrutinizing the company for vacuuming up people's private information and chilling the technology landscape with its market dominance.
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The EU's enforcement arm, the European Commission, proposed the fine in regard to a number of antitrust disputes involving Intel's alleged market dominance in Europe.
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Last year, the European Commission accused AB InBev of abusing its market dominance in Belgium by impeding the flow of cheaper imports into the country.
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Meanwhile, federal government regulators, state attorneys general and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are also conducting investigations into whether Facebook uses its market dominance to stifle competition.
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But Mylan didn't invent the EpiPen, it acquired it in 2007, getting a drug that had been approved since 1987 and had 90 percent market dominance.
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The European Commission says that the company used its market dominance to sell chips meant for mobile internet dongles at below cost between 2009 and 103.
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Senator Hawley has argued that some tech platforms have become too powerful, but legislation like this would only cement the market dominance of today's largest firms.
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Qualcomm, as the EU points out, is the world's biggest LTE supplier, making it a target for regulators looking into those who abuse their market dominance.
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EpiPen's market dominance is partly the result of the recall last year of a main competitor, Auvi-Q, after its manufacturer discovered problems with the dosage.
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Tech is already facing a hostile climate in Washington, amid tough questions about the market dominance of its largest companies and over its data privacy practices.
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Following the 33 million sales of the DS range before Nintendo's twin-screen system took on the (autostereoscopic) third dimension, the 3DS's market dominance is absolute.
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In saying he wants to create a fairer technological race, Mr Ren is also attempting to dissociate American security fears from those of Huawei's market dominance.
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Smaller, newer fintech companies are eating into their market dominance by adapting faster to changing spending habits, while also looking to capitalize on economies of scale.
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Then there are the mounting concerns about the market dominance of Google, which handles an overwhelming majority of all internet searches globally and dominates internet advertising.
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The German antitrust authorities are pursuing a case against Facebook alleging that its market dominance essentially forces users to accept a service that violates their privacy.
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Last month, a coalition of state attorneys launched an investigation into Facebook's market dominance; and the US Justice Department is reportedly planning its own antitrust probe.
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The headline news is the addition of a third charge sheet against Google for market dominance, adding to existing cases around its comparison shopping service and Android.
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WEKO cited a separate European Commission examination of the same watchmakers that concluded that service-after-sales agreements were neither unacceptable nor an abuse of market dominance.
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The California probe of Facebook is occurring alongside the separate probes into whether it unfairly wields its market dominance to quash competitors and take advantage of consumers.
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A House Republican is joining a growing group of lawmakers, most of them Democrats, who are calling for regulators to crack down on Google's market dominance. Rep.
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In 22014, the Commission ruled that Microsoft had abused its market dominance and had to disclose documentation allowing non-Microsoft servers to work Windows computers and services.
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And in January, she fined the American chip maker Qualcomm €997 million, or about $1.2 billion, saying it had abused its market dominance to shut out competitors.
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Some web companies, including Yelp and TripAdvisor, have long complained that Google skews search results and uses its market dominance to unfairly promote its own services over theirs.
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Megmilk Snow Brand, which currently shares market dominance with only two other manufacturers in Japan, said it was preparing for a large impact on the domestic dairy industry.
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The European Commission in July found Google abused its market dominance in mobile software to essentially force Android partners to pre-install search and Chrome on their gadgets.
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It may yet turn out that piles of cash and multi-platform market dominance will end up determining the future of the streaming market, not soaring utopian ambitions.
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Google was fined a record €4.3 billion last year for abusing its market dominance in mobile, and €2.4 billion the year before that for manipulating shopping search results.
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"If it's helpful, I'll go back to what it was like at the time," Zuckerberg said, responding to an investor's question about government scrutiny of its market dominance.
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And the healthcare giant, which has developed or acquired its way to market dominance, now has the ability to guide patients to their preferred providers, treatments and services.
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Germany's antitrust watchdog is planning on taking the first steps in its investigation of Facebook after alleging that the company abused its market dominance with data collection practices.
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The German antitrust watchdog is also investigating Facebook after finding the social media giant abused its market dominance to gather data on people without their knowledge or consent.
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Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) said in a Thursday letter to top antitrust regulators that the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department should probe Google's market dominance.
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Apple and other massive tech companies are currently the subject of a Justice Department probe into whether its market dominance has made it impossible for others to compete.
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They all recounted, in manners specific to their respective companies, how the major tech players have used their market dominance to squeeze smaller competitors in allegedly anticompetitive ways.
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Smaller telecoms operators such as Bharti Airtel Kenya have complained of Safaricom's market dominance, with 90 percent of revenues in areas such as voice calls and text messages.
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Even if weaponizing capital could promote winner-take-all outcomes, SoftBank has been investing in the wrong types of businesses to achieve its goal of profitable market dominance.
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It will also entrench the biggest internet platforms right at the moment when many policymakers and pundits are expressing concern about their size, political influence, and market dominance.
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Both companies grew at astronomical pace through the novel combination of unprecedented reach and data collection, cemented through market dominance, with the low overhead of a largely automated system.
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What to watch: Whether state attorneys general or the Justice Department step up investigations into the privacy practices of Silicon Valley or the market dominance of major online platforms.
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The House Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation into giant tech companies like Facebook and Google to determine whether they are abusing their market dominance and violating antitrust law.
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In February, the German regulator found Facebook had abused its market dominance in the way it collects, merges and uses user data across its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Not allowing me to sign-in to Fortnite Switch with my Epic account because it's linked to PS4 is tone deaf and points more to fear than market dominance.
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The cloud market is continuing to grow at a dramatic pace, and as market leader, AWS has been able to take advantage of its market dominance to this point.
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Meanwhile, Telekom Malaysia operates at a similar net leverage of 7503x-2.5x as Optus, and benefits from its market dominance and lower competitive pressures in the fixed-line market.
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And in June, EU antitrust officials slapped Google with a massive €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) fine for abusing its market dominance to steer customers toward its own shopping platform.
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Efforts to curtail Google's market dominance around the world had failed because of the search engine operator's record of "avoiding and undermining regulatory initiatives and ignoring private contractual arrangements".
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This has created an unprecedented challenge for regulators that have for decades viewed antitrust policy from the lens of whether market dominance was used to raise prices on costumers.
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The firm said the potential to make money off the trend will likely go to Amazon and Google because of their voice recognition technologies and smart speaker market dominance.
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As the backlash against the power and profit of Big Tech amps up, Alphabet is a prime target, and its market dominance becomes a liability rather than a strength.
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It is difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn's influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as of other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.
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At the state level, populist movements on the right and the left may converge on some tech-related issues, such as perceived partisan bias and and business market dominance.
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As reported by Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi, the speaker company claims Google stole its secrets and used its market dominance to develop lower-priced speakers to squash competition.
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Bipartisan leaders on the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee sent letters to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google last week asking for internal communications and documents over pertaining to market dominance.
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The market dominance of CBA also means that checks and balances are essential so that customers with spotty bank histories don't find their past haunting them on new platforms.
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It would also follow suit of companies across the food and beverage industry that have been slimming down as their market dominance is threatened by smaller, nimble upstart brands.
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A sale of the units would follow suit of a number Big Food peers have been slimming down as their market dominance is threatened by smaller, nimble upstart brands.
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Cade said the volume that would be handled by the new joint venture, compared to the total volume exported by Brazil's center-south region, precluded a position of market dominance.
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One U.S. tech giant to feel a change of approach after 2014 was Google, with whom Almunia worked for years to reach a compromise over concerns about its market dominance.
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The permits are hot commodities for those competing for scooter market dominance, which includes Uber and Lyft, which applied for permits to operate e-scooters despite not yet having any.
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" But added that the company also "abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors.
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Some web companies, including Yelp Inc and TripAdvisor Inc, have long complained that Google skews search results and uses its market dominance to unfairly promote its own services over theirs.
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The European Commission has been investigating Android more closely over the past year after rivals complained that Google has been abusing its market dominance in software that runs on smartphones.
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Just as Big Tech has begun to seriously worry about Washington, now Wall Street is waking up to possible government threats to the market dominance of the Silicon Valley giants.
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MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the European Union's competition commissioner, has taken a forceful stance on mergers and market dominance, as lawyers at Google and other big firms in her sights can attest.
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The German antitrust watchdog has also launched an investigation into Facebook after findings that the company used its market dominance to gather data on people without their knowledge or consent.
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Sears and similar retailers have suffered largely because of changing consumer behavior and market dominance of Amazon, which was responsible for 44% of all U.S. e-commerce sales last year.
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In June 23 caravans of drivers used social media to organise nationwide protests about fuel prices, low incomes and the market dominance of a few, Uber-like load-finding apps.
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It's a response to a European antitrust ruling in July that hit Google with a roughly $5 billion fine for unfairly bundling free Android services to maintain its market dominance.
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"Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors," Vestager said at the time.
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Bipartisan leaders of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee sent letters to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Friday seeking internal communications and documents regarding the use of their market dominance.
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Just as electrified cars — whether hybrids or pure battery-powered models — seem headed for market dominance, Mazda announced a breakthrough in gasoline engines that could make them far more efficient.
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Bipartisan leaders of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee sent letters to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Friday seeking internal communications and documents regarding the use of their market dominance.
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"This is a repeated pattern when market dominance and profits are valued over safety, transparency, and assurance," write Whittaker and her co-authors in an AI Now report published last month.
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Germany's Federal Cartel Office will probably decide later this year whether to take action against Facebook after finding in December that it had abused its market dominance to gather personal data.
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Still, what didn't happen over the years because of the big tech companies' aggressive maneuvering in reaching market dominance is something we'll never know, no matter how many inquiries are done.
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But for now, trying to establish market dominance in the smaller-frame format while everyone else is fighting to rule the full-frame roost seems like it could be a win.
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Last year, its Atom processors even looked like they had a shot at denting Qualcomm's market dominance, thanks in large part to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip's power and heat issues.
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That leaves us with a question: Do even the well-funded startups mentioned earlier stand a chance of either usurping market dominance from corporate incumbents or at least joining their ranks?
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It's also still a popular area of investment for U.S.-based VCs, with startups like Jiff, Limeade and Keas all raising over $30m a piece in the race for market dominance.
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There are six acquisitions that experts cited as missed opportunities by regulators at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to curb the advertising market dominance of Google and Facebook.
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Last September, a German court said that Adblock Plus does not breach laws on competition, copyright, or market dominance — the arguments first brought by Axel Springer, which went on to appeal.
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But it's this homegrown network that makes it possible to offer the amazing convenience of next-day and even same-day delivery that has become a cornerstone of its market dominance.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's competition authority has begun investigating whether Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in relation to other retailers that use its website as a marketplace, it said on Thursday.
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Speaking at an event to mark 70 years of Germany's "social market" economic model, she said the market dominance of giant U.S. internet platforms also posed a challenge to Europe's social model.
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His return before Congress comes amid a broader Washington backlash as lawmakers and 2020 Democrats have ratcheted up scrutiny of Big Tech over issues including user privacy, market dominance and election interference.
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Investors should buy Grubhub due its market dominance, first-mover advantage and future growth potential, according to Wedbush Securities, which initiated coverage of the internet food ordering company with an outperform rating.
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But the first few months of the Royal Commission inquiry are creating more than just a reputational hazard, with the practices, structures and market dominance of the banks subjected to unprecedented scrutiny.
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Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into whether U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retailers who use its website as a marketplace.
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In the coming weeks, the EU is expected to sanction Google for using its search market dominance to favor its own Google Shopping services, giving them an unfair advantage in the market.
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The company's use of steep discounting and price-matching to gain market dominance has led many shoppers to almost reflexively expect to pay less for their notebooks and calculators on the site.
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The outage, Telstra's seventh this year, will pile pressure on the former state monopoly, beset by smaller rivals that are consolidating in a bid to chip away at its lengthy market dominance.
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This home-market dominance, modified in recent years with airport and foreign expansion and the Alamo and National acquisitions, is only one way that Mr. Taylor differentiated media-shy Enterprise from competitors.
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The case focuses on whether Google has abused its market dominance and crowded out rivals by taking steps to ensure its own-brand apps and services are pre-loaded on Android devices.
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"We can't allow Atrium to use its size and market dominance to the detriment of health care consumers," said Josh Stein, the North Carolina attorney general, in a statement at the time.
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Google's acquisition of Fitbit may also attract the attention of antitrust regulators in the United States and Europe, who are already scrutinizing the company's market dominance, particularly in search and online advertising.
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In September, the leaders of the antitrust probe sent letters to Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon requesting an enormous tranche of internal communications and records regarding the use of their market dominance.
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Dean Koontz and Patricia Cornwell's Amazon-published books won't be found in most bookstores—they are being blacklisted by many booksellers, in protest of the company's market dominance and rapacious business practices.
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A coalition of 50 attorneys general will be investigating Google for potential violations of antitrust law, a step that could potentially lead to a broad legal challenge to the company's market dominance.
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Now the Silicon Valley companies — long used to practically unchallenged clout in Washington — face rising calls for tighter regulation from both conservatives and liberals and growing scrutiny of their sheer market dominance.
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The big picture: The news comes a day ahead of a critical Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington that will examine the market dominance of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government called for more banks to challenge the industry's oligopoly on Friday, after the country's top economic adviser said the "Big Four" lenders' market dominance has been detrimental to customers.
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On the downside, Mobile operator Vodacom dropped 3.2 percent after the anti-trust watchdog said it was investigation the company for abuse of market dominance in securing an exclusive contract with the government.
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The European Commission said its investigation, launched in 2015, covered the period from 2011 to 2016 and took into account Qualcomm's market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets, which enable rapid mobile broadband connections.
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This move is probably targeted at users born after the 1980s, since they comprise a bulk of both companies' customers — the added convenience also potentially aims to combat Uber's loss of market dominance.
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But those companies never succeeded in displacing the market dominance of EpiPen because they did not pay the same level of rebates that Mylan was paying the pharmacy benefit managers, the suit said.
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Germany's anti-trust regulator, while subordinate to Brussels in many regards, has also been active, ordering Facebook to change how it handles user data after finding the social network abused its market dominance.
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Germany has launched an antitrust investigation into Amazon over whether the retail giant is taking advantage of its market dominance in a way that is detrimental to third-party sellers on its platform.
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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's comments came two weeks after the German cartel office ruled that the world's largest social network abused its market dominance to gather information about users without their consent.
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Trump orders Justice to look into Google In addition to the House antitrust probe, two federal agencies are said to be paving the way for potential investigations into the four companies' market dominance.
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The Federal Cartel Office, which has been investigating Facebook since 2015, has already found that the social media giant abused its market dominance to gather data on people without their knowledge or consent.
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New York (CNN Business)While massive online platforms like Facebook (FB) are coming under heavy scrutiny from regulators for their market dominance, some of their smaller rivals are showing renewed signs of growth.
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"The Government of Canada is deeply troubled by the protectionist nature of Boeing's allegations, which seek to advance its market dominance by excluding Bombardier's C Series aircraft from the U.S. market," Freehand said.
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Why it matters: Isakowitz takes the job as Google is facing increasing regulatory pressure over its market dominance, its handing of misinformation, privacy and accusations of censoring conservative viewpoints, Axios' Kim Hart emails.
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President, the treatment of you, set aside with Google and Facebook, just in terms of market size and market dominance, do you think that there is a monopoly antitrust problems with those big companies?
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Such a move would improve the odds that start-ups like Dyson could carve out a market niche, though traditional automakers like Daimler AG, General Motors and Volkswagen, are intent on reclaiming market dominance.
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Tough new scrutiny is likely in the wake of Australia's knife-edge weekend election as a disparate group of lawmakers push for a wide-ranging inquiry into mis-selling, misconduct and market dominance concerns.
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An antitrust prosecution would be a first for this generation of tech companies, which have benefited from enforcers' practice of identifying market dominance by looking for places where it results in higher consumer prices.
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European Union antitrust regulators fined Google $5 billion last month for abusing its Android market dominance, and Hatch has previously asked the FTC about its interest in following up on the EU's Google investigations.
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They say the rules may have been drafted to curtail the anticompetitive practices of big tech but are worded in a way that lets companies known for abusing their market dominance off scot-free.
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Uber, of course, has a lot more cash at its disposal and has shown time and time again that it's more than willing to set piles of it on fire to establish market dominance.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Long-awaited measures to break the market dominance of Britain's biggest banks, including a cap on fees for unauthorized overdrafts, were criticized on Tuesday by consumer groups as insufficient to boost competition.
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Walmart in the 1990s and Amazon in the 2000s likely achieved market dominance partially by developing inventory management and distribution processes — a form of capital that is largely intangible — and characterized by scale economies.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into whether U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retailers who use its website as a marketplace.
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Germany on Thursday ordered Facebook to heavily restrict its data-gathering practices, ruling that the social media giant has abused its market dominance as it collects data on individual users without their explicit consent.
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Many globally popular social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are blocked in China by the government's infamous Great Firewall, giving Chinese firms like WeChat a free run at market dominance.
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The details: Rokita said that Google's "market dominance creates an often-insurmountable barrier to entry for new innovators who could better serve consumers," specifically citing the company's power in search, mobile and online advertising.
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I've found the HQ2 search and the obsession around it fascinating because of the blatant display of Amazon's power to promise jobs and lobby politicians, thanks to the company's market dominance and consumer adoration.
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Companies can be fined up to 10 percent of their annual revenue if the Commission concludes there is sufficient evidence of an infringement of EU rules barring cartels and the abuse of market dominance.
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He made a rare visit to Capitol Hill and the White House in September amid rising bipartisan scrutiny of his company's business practices, including its handling of private data and its overall market dominance.
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The tech executive spent the week discussing election security, privacy and market dominance issues behind closed doors for his first publicly known visit to D.C. since the post-Cambridge Analytica congressional hearings last year.
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Research by the country's top economic adviser has shown the market dominance of the Big Four lenders has been detrimental to customers, prompting the government to call for more banks to challenge the industry's oligopoly.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Justice and a team of bipartisan House lawmakers are also probing whether Facebook uses its market dominance in digital advertising and social media to quash competitors and take advantage of users.
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Before that, she had asked the FTC to renew the Google investigation over its use of market dominance, which ... they kind of sailed through the FTC here years ago and were investigated and nothing happened.
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The details: Viacom argues that AT&T is using its newfound market dominance, which resulted from its multi-billion merger with Time Warner last summer, as leverage to drive consumers to the content it owns.
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Such a move, it believes, would allow it to save money and offer an array of packages but the regulator has been of the view that Bezeq would use its market dominance to stifle competition.
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The move, which comes on the heels of an overall $250 million investment in Go-Jek, is aimed at boosting Astra's already-strong market dominance, despite a dismal full-year outlook for countrywide car sales.
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Gary Paulin, co-founder of brokerage Aviate Global, said Royal Mail was one of his favored "short" plays, while Redmayne-Bentley investment manager David Battersby also saw the European postal firms losing their market dominance.
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The market dominance of Facebook and of Alphabet Inc's Google has also drawn the attention of Australia's competition regulator, which is pushing for greater scrutiny of their power and influence, something the firms are resisting.
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In the coming weeks, EU officials are expected to say that the tech company, which is owned by Alphabet, abused its search market dominance to give its Google Shopping service an advantage over other retailers.
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SYDNEY, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Australia's government called for more banks to challenge the industry's oligopoly on Friday, after the country's top economic adviser said the "Big Four" lenders' market dominance has been detrimental to customers.
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The commission called this a classic "tying" arrangement, in which a company extends the market dominance it enjoys in one area (in this instance, the app store) to others, specifically the browser and search engine.
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The takeover battle is at the heart of a race to consolidate the wireless technology equipment sector, as smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung Electronics use their market dominance to negotiate down chip prices.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - SoftBank's Vision Fund is investing an additional $22016 billion in South Korea's top e-commerce firm Coupang, the retailer said on Tuesday, as the loss-making startup seeks to cement its market dominance.
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At the end of the Panorama documentary, which also explored Amazon's warehouse working conditions, its market dominance, and its acquisition of home security camera startup Ring, Kaphan reflected on how much the company has changed.
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ED BLACKPresident and CEOComputer and Communications Industry AssociationWashington, DC Transferring anonymised consumer data from established companies to their challengers, which you propose as one way to weaken the market dominance of tech giants, is fiendishly difficult.
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Del Monte, by way of example, stands little chance in the battle over supermarket shelf space, but may find a way to challenge Heinz's near 60 percent market dominance by going directly to a consumer's fridge.
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Last year, the European Commission accused the world's largest brewer of abusing its market dominance in Belgium by impeding cheaper imports into the country of its Jupiler and Leffe brands from neighboring France and the Netherlands.
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On net neutrality, Colao said Vodafone was in favour of a balanced approach around "fair usage" of data to avoid market dominance by telecoms companies while making the field economically viable so they can keep investing.
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The announcement comes as companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook are facing increasing scrutiny for how they wield their market dominance and the FTC is facing pressure to check their power over competitors and user data.
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The disclosure comes at at time when Google has been under the microscope in Washington for its data collection practices, market dominance and efforts to appease Chinese officials with a censored version of its search engine.
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It was accused of abusing its market dominance in search "by giving illegal advantages" to its shopping service — the shopping results that appear at the top of the Google page when you search for an item.
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While Salesforce might be moving to harden its market dominance across all areas of the customer experience, to this point at least, it has not shown signs that it is sitting still or failing to innovate.
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The privately owned Christie's has drawn back from the high-rolling guarantees that bought it market dominance in 2015 and is now luring sellers with the promise of higher prices in competitive bidding at its auctions.
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Expedia's job cuts arguably represent a cry for help from the traditional online travel industry, which is struggling to adapt as Google enters the online travel market on the back of its internet search market dominance.
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Separately, Amazon is under investigation by Germany's anti-trust authority, which is looking into whether the company is exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retailers who use its website as a marketplace.
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Net worth: $79.4 billion2019 gain: $27.4 billionFacebook spent much of 2019 battling negative headlines about its political advertising, poor monitoring of hate speech, and market dominance, but that didn't stop the social network from making money.
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The Bank of England has acknowledged mid-tier lenders could be facing "barriers to growth" as efforts so far to boost competition has not led to much change in the market dominance of the big six.
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Germany's antitrust watchdog expects to take action this year in an ongoing probe against Facebook after finding that the social media giant abused its market dominance to gather data on people without their knowledge or consent.
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As she's noted, "There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character," and she's managed to turn herself into a brand rivaled only by actual product brands for market dominance.
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New America had warned its leader Barry Lynn that he was "imperiling the institution," the Times reported, after he and his group had repeatedly criticized Google, a major funder of the think tank, for its market dominance.
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It's the misuse of that bigness and market dominance such as Facebook has been doing by acquiring innovative companies before they can really reach maturity and also copying new technologies so as to stifle competition and innovation.
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JOE KERNEN: Mr. President, the treatment of you, set aside with Google and Facebook, just in terms of market size and market dominance, do you think that there is a monopoly antitrust problems with those big companies?
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Why it matters The move comes months after European antitrust officials slapped Google with a massive $2.7 billion fine for abusing its market dominance as a search engine to steer customers to its own Google Shopping platform.
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What he'll be asked: Expect Mr. Pichai to be hit with many of the same privacy-related questions that Facebook, in particular, has been confronted with: How does it track users, target advertising and maintain market dominance?
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Apple, Amazon and Google wield their market dominance to bully smaller tech players with relative impunity, executives from smaller competitors testified on Friday at a congressional hearing to explore allegations of anti-competitive practices in the industry.
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She has offered input on several pending US privacy bills and wrote a 34-page policy paper for the House Judiciary Committee, whose antitrust panel is looking into Big Tech&aposs potential abuse of its market dominance.
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The European Commission found Google had abused its market dominance since 2011 with practices such as forcing manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser, together with its Google Play app store on Android devices.
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Mundt has taken Facebook to task over its handling of data collected from users of the social network and its messaging apps without their consent, finding the firm founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg abused its market dominance.
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Since the conflict began, there have been more Iranian goods for sale, though not on the same scale as in Iraq, which shares a long border with the Islamic Republic and where Iran has gained extensive market dominance.
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And which — at times — also appear to have been geared towards prioritizing business growth and a race for market dominance over and above passenger safety, which would very clearly be better served by more thorough driver screening processes.
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The takeover battle is at the heart of a race to consolidate the wireless technology equipment sector, as smartphone makers such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd use their market dominance to negotiate down chip prices.
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MANILA, July 12 (Reuters) - The Philippines' two largest telecom firms on Tuesday sought to stop the competition regulator from reviewing a $1.5 billion deal inked with conglomerate San Miguel Corp which critics said could strengthen their market dominance.
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In addition, even if a small fraction of companies has achieved market dominance, primarily through innovative products and business practices, they may attempt to entrench their position by making it harder for other businesses to compete with them.
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The takeover battle is at the heart of a race to consolidate the wireless technology equipment sector, as smartphone makers such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd use their market dominance to negotiate lower chip prices.
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Read More The Trade: Election may boost these stocks But many investors believe the breadth of Alphabet's market dominance across multiple categories may give it the edge on Apple, which primarily only leads the smart phone hardware market.
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When Saudi officials made their move in the fall of 603, taking advantage of an already glutted market, they no doubt hoped that lower prices would undercut the American shale industry, which was challenging the kingdom's market dominance.
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HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Russia's Kaspersky Lab has temporarily backed off filing a competition complaint that Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to crowd out anti-virus software makers such as itself, founder and Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky said.
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"The CCI said e-commerce titans like Amazon were accused of using their market dominance to price "below cost," resulting in the "creation of high entry barriers and high capital costs for any new entrant in the market.
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Luther King Capital Management's investment philosophy is grounded in a fundamental analysis of companies that meet stringent investment criteria, such as market dominance, high or rising returns on invested capital, strong cash flow characteristics and sound balance sheets.
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The interplay between these meatpackers' market dominance replete with their NAFTA-expanded supply chains and America's family-owned ranches is often hidden by the meatpacking lobby's glib talking points in support of making no substantive changes to NAFTA.
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So far, the German Federal Cartel Office is the only competition authority to have taken action against Facebook but only on privacy grounds, saying it abuses its market dominance by gathering data on people without their proper consent.
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In doing so, the German agency's ruling is advancing a larger antitrust argument: that a tech company's abuse of its market dominance to amass information about and profile its users can amount to a kind of data coercion.
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BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its market dominance to gather information about users without their consent.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An unorthodox push for a wide-ranging inquiry into Australia's major banks has won the support of a key government politician in the country's finely balanced parliament, amid simmering public anger about corporate misconduct and market dominance.
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When he testifies next week on Capitol Hill, Pichai will likely be grilled by Republicans and Democrats alike about his company's market dominance, data collection practices and efforts to build a search engine that complies with China's censorship regime.
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EU antitrust regulators ruled on Tuesday that the technology giant should face its largest-ever charge for a monopoly abuse case on the basis that Google manipulated its market dominance to the disadvantage of smaller competitors and European consumers.
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President Trump has a chance in the next few weeks to send the strongest possible signal by embracing tough penalties against South Korean conglomerates Samsung and LG for consistently dumping washing machines in the U.S. to hold market dominance.
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Are they using their market dominance to make it impossible for a competitor to enter the marketplace and survive, and as a result, leading to a reduction of innovation, a reduction of choices for consumers, maybe ultimately increasing costs?
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Huawei&aposs market dominance as a telecoms supplier makes it difficult to rule out, it lays claim to roughly 28% of the market while the next-biggest supplier Nokia only has 16%, according to research from Dell&aposOro Group.
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On Monday, 50 attorneys general from US states and territories signed onto an antitrust investigation into Google, placing even more pressure on the major tech firm that is already facing intense scrutiny over its market dominance from the government.
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After years of showing little interest, Congress and regulators at the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department plan to scrutinize the power, influence and market dominance of Google, as well as fellow tech giants Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
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As fledgling startups have evolved into industry monoliths and idealistic company visions have given way to platforms that elevate misinformation, Russian election interference and hate speech, Democrats are now seeking ways to rein in much of their market dominance.
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Along the way, it has made enemies in both the tech world, who have complained to law enforcers about its market dominance, and in Washington, where lawmakers have complained about issues from its alleged political bias to its plans for China.
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Amazon is a great example of a platform company that has been able to manage investor expectations to tolerate many years of losses with the hope that Amazon's strong network effects will eventually result in market dominance and shareholder earnings.
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Yet, it appears that both Republicans and Democrats are ready to take a closer look at Silicon Valley's market dominance, after the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday that it would be launching a bipartisan investigation into companies like Facebook and Google.
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ULA and Blue Origin, as well as small satellite launch start-ups, like Rocket Lab and Firefly Space Systems, are developing lower-cost launch vehicles that could nibble away at SpaceX's market dominance should the company sit still for too long.
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They've achieved a level of market dominance that is profoundly anticompetitive, but because they operate in a way that doesn't raise prices for consumers, they don't meet the traditional criteria for monopolies and so they avoid antitrust scrutiny from the government.
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Yet in spite of being late to the game, these numbers show that the market is still dominated by the old guard enterprise software companies and how difficult it is to achieve market dominance for companies born in the cloud.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian bank shares surged the most in a decade on Tuesday after a long-awaited report on finance-sector misconduct recommended dozens of rule changes but spared the "Big Four" lenders any serious threat to their market dominance.
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The company's market dominance combined with a spike in teen vaping leads to an alarming conclusion, according to King: "These specific USB-shaped products, including Juul, are helping to drive this marked increase we've seen among our nation's youth," he says.
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Once viewed in purely glowing terms as icons of American innovation, these businesses now face a "top-to-bottom" antitrust probe from the House Judiciary Committee and two federal agencies paving the way for potential investigations into their market dominance.
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Speaking of his competitors, Jassy said they fought as long and hard as they could against the cloud, making every kind of argument a disrupted company tends to make to convince themselves there was no existential threat to their market dominance.
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Along the way, it has made enemies in the tech world, who have complained to law enforcers about its market dominance, and also in Washington, where lawmakers have complained about issues from its alleged political bias to its plans for China.
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Huawei then uses that clout and pricing power to undercut Western telecoms and then uses its rising global market dominance to set the next generation of global 5G telecom standards around its own technologies, not those of Qualcomm or Sweden's Ericsson.
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By mid-January, he was spending close to $234,22016 per week, earning him a market dominance similar to the one he has on TV. He has close to 103 percent of the Facebook political ads reaching voters in South Carolina.
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Since June of last year, the antitrust panel, led by Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI), has been bringing in witnesses from some of the country's largest tech firms and their critics to discuss how lawmakers could rein in their market dominance.
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Yet TikTok also offers Silicon Valley CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg a chance to wrap themselves in American values on market dominance, data privacy and online speech, at a moment when U.S. tech companies are more beleaguered than ever in Washington.
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Germany is Amazon's biggest market outside of the US. Amazon is currently undergoing an antitrust probe by the German government over its market dominance over third-party sellers, and whether the sale of Amazon-brand products has harmed other retailers and manufacturers.
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But they also cautioned it's easier to prove market dominance under EU legal standards than in the U.S. "In the U.S. the thresholds are higher and the FTC and DOJ are sort of put to the test by courts," Fieldfisher's Cassels said.
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"Google abused its market dominance as a search engine to promote its own comparison shopping service in search results, whilst demoting those of rivals," said Margrethe Vestager, member of the European Commission in charge of competition, in a press conference broadcast live online.
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The big picture: Critics argue that AT&T's aggressive business behavior since its acquisition of Time Warner last summer breaks promises it made during the merger trial to not abuse its market dominance to harm consumers, either directly or by harming competitors.
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In its initial suit, the European Commission alleged that Google was abusing its market dominance over its Android operating system by bundling together products like Google search and Chrome apps, and paying other mobile manufacturers to include Google search as a default.
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Rob Koepp, who follows China for the Economist Corporate Network in Hong Kong, said that both Boeing and rival Airbus are in a "sweet spot" in China given their market dominance for aircraft spurred by the increasing aspirations of the country's consumers.
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The question still remains, as e-commerce becomes a bigger part of the retail industry, everyone's shopping behavior, and as Amazon branches off into physical retail, do the old-school ways of looking at power and market share and market dominance still hold?
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Investigations were triggered after the European Commission received dozens of complaints from U.S. and European competitors who claimed that the company abused its search market dominance to give its Google Shopping service an advantage over other retailers and create a monopoly over consumers.
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As pressure mounts on Amazon from its workers, lawmakers, and the public over its treatment of workers as well as its market dominance, Amazon's efforts show that it's taking the possibility of unionization seriously — and doing whatever it can to prevent it.
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Maybe Google's websites are ranking exclusively because they're the best result, but if Congress is asking questions about whether a monopoly is potentially abusing its market dominance in one field to unfairly compete in another, I've got something else they'll want to see.
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To trigger a government intervention, a megafirm has to try to extend its market dominance into a different market, or set prices in concert with other firms, or try to merge with another megafirm in the same business, or clearly harm consumers.
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On Wednesday, the European Union is expected to rule that Google illegally used the market dominance of its smartphone software, Android, to stifle competition, hitting the Alphabet-owned company with a hefty fine and aiming to change some of its business practices.
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" Host Joe Kernen tried to press Trump on the point, asking him to set aside his personal grievances and address whether "just in terms of market size and market dominance, do you think that there is a monopoly, antitrust problem with those big companies?
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These bans are just one part of a long-ranging legal battle, which has seen accusations from Apple that Qualcomm was using its market dominance to unreasonably raise prices, and Qualcomm claiming that Apple stole Qualcomm's source code to share with rival modem supplier Intel.
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Tech giants are experiencing a hard time recently, signs of regulatory tightening are evident in both Europe and the US. The justice department's antitrust investigation is focused on whether market-leading online platforms are gaining market dominance to stifle competition, impede innovation or harm consumers.
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Since 2016, when reports emerged that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired the Facebook data of 85033 million users to assist then-candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Facebook has faced an intensifying barrage of scandals over its data privacy and pursuit of market dominance.
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And in Germany, which adopted an anti-hate speech law that requires Facebook to screen out posts considered harmful, antitrust authorities forced Facebook to adjust its data-collection policies after determining the company was exploiting its market dominance to profile its users and sell advertising.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian phone carrier Oi SA faces long odds in trying to reorganize under the country's complex bankruptcy law, offering rivals a chance to bolster their market dominance while leaving hopes for consolidation in the $212 billion industry on hold for now.
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The decision, which is expected to hew closely to recommendations made in 2016 soon after the probe began, will almost certainly leave Google's market dominance intact because the incentives to stick with the company are so strong, say industry executives, analysts and even its foes.
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Regulators allege that Google abused its Android market dominance by bundling its search engine and Chrome apps into Android, blocking phone makers from creating devices that run forked versions of Android, and making payments to manufacturers and network operators to bundle the Google search app on handsets.
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ABU DHABI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' only privately owned utility, Utico Middle East, will invest about $185 million to more than double its water desalination capacity in two years, aiming to chip away at state-owned rivals' market dominance, it said on Monday.
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Why it matters: The Europeans don't share America's romantic view of Google, Facebook and other tech giants and are aggressively trying to highlight and restrain their market dominance, a move some White House officials such as Steve Bannon are watching closely as they debate future U.S. action.
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Instead, the company should invest more in its direct-to-consumer virtual therapy offerings and leverage its market dominance to negotiate telemental health partnerships with its existing high-profile clientele, like CVS-Aetna, as a way to defend its crown from hungry new competitors in the industry.
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In an 80-page document submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the media giant accused Google of abusing its market dominance in search to benefit its ad business, and it called for its search business to be separated from the rest of the company's business units.
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After being fined €4.3bn ($5bn) by the European Commission in July for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating-system, Google said it would comply with the commission's remedies by allowing smartphone-makers in Europe to install all of its apps separately, rather than as a bundle.
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While margins have taken a hit, Sinopec and PetroChina are far from losing money in their retail businesses, thanks to their market dominance in key consuming regions in the south and east where there is little need for discounts and wealthier motorists are less sensitive to price cuts.
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North Dakota, the No. 2 U.S. oil-producing state, has largely taken a back seat in the past year as companies in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico - the largest U.S. oilfield - battle with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries for global energy market dominance.
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For years, several of Google's competitors including Microsoft and Yelp had complained that the company unfairly leveraged its search market dominance to harm rivals, but the Federal Trade Commission allowed the search giant to make modest voluntary changes to its business practices in order to dodge the lawsuit.
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He ran a New America initiative called Open Markets that has led a growing chorus of liberal criticism of the market dominance of telecom and tech giants, including Google, which is now part of a larger corporate entity known as Alphabet, for which Mr. Schmidt serves as executive chairman.
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What they found beyond concerns about losing business, access to C-suites and bearing the expense of engagement in a sector defined by low costs, was a political minefield for index fund companies whose success has reached a point of market dominance, and over which regulatory concerns may grow.
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Although business practices like encouraging educators to spread the word to their peers have become commonplace among education technology firms, Google has successfully deployed these techniques on a such a large scale that some critics say the company has co-opted public school employees to gain market dominance.
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This was a pivotal moment for the mobile OS as a whole, because the eventual failure of these phones to dent the iPhone and Android's market dominance is what led to a spiraling loss of faith among Microsoft's hardware partners and the eventual dissolution of Nokia as a phone maker.
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Several new companies have emerged from the collapse of Faraday Future and Fisker Automotive, even as both companies found themselves reborn with new leases on life thanks to redoubled capital commitments from global billionaires, Chinese companies awash in money and traditional venture firms angling for a shot at Tesla's market dominance.
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When the nature of your losses are less obvious to investors than MoviePass' have been, it's easier to convince them that those losses are all just prelude to an inevitable forthcoming market dominance and an Amazon-like turnaround, where huge losses over a sustained period eventually gave way to 10-figure profits.
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"It's getting close to that heart of the anxiety that lots of policymakers have and academics have about the nature of information economy companies — about the importance of data and scale, and that sort of underlying anxiety that you see around the place where people are worried about market dominance," adds Nesbitt.
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In the latest decision, European regulators found that Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of smartphone chips, abused its market dominance by preventing rivals from competing in the smartphone chip market thanks to an agreement in which it paid Apple to exclusively use its chips in iPhones and iPads between 893 and 2016.
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Since then, Facebook has also faced mounting scrutiny on both sides of the political aisle — but especially from Democrats — over what is seen by lawmakers as its market dominance as well as the perception, expressed in an interview published this week with Democratic presidential nominee Pete Buttigieg, that Zuckerberg has too much power.
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The incident, illuminated by a collection of internal emails released by the U.K. Parliament at the end of last year, has been referenced in recent months by both the chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee and a Facebook cofounder as an example of when the company may have used its market dominance to undermine competitors.
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"Clearer terms and conditions are welcomed but do not solve the problems inherent to Facebook's business model, which is built on the extensive exploitation and monetisation of people's privacy, its market dominance in Europe and concerns about the company's compliance with the GDPR," Ursula Pachl, deputy-director general for European consumer organization, BEUC, told us.
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Essentially, Apple can't be held accountable for restricting itself to use its own apps on its own OS. Since Google does make Android available to others, and is (in the opinion of the commission) using those companies and their devices to further increase Google search's market dominance and mobile ad revenue, it's on the hook here. 3.
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Asked whether he believes expanded search engine options in Chrome will be enough to stave off further regulatory intervention related to Google's market dominance, Leandri said no — pointing out that Android OEMs still have to pay Google to install a non-Google search engine by default, following the European Commission's Android antitrust ruling last year, as we've reported previously.
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Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah) called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Google over its market dominance.
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A spokesperson for Facebook pointed Axios to this point from the venture capitalist Ben Horowitz (Horowitz's business partner is on the board of Facebook): The nature of modern American antitrust law — which focuses on whether there is harm to consumers as the result of market dominance — also makes a competition case against Big Tech more difficult.
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Ventures in the best position to benefit from explosive global growth exhibit a specific (and rare) set of business model characteristics: a massive addressable market; compelling consumer value proposition; strong network effects and scale economies; inherently high contribution and operating margins; extremely high customer loyalty; which collectively yield a growing competitive advantage and profitable market dominance.
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The social media giant has been trying to quash the story by insisting developers were only allowed to use the data to provide "the Facebook experience" before the market dominance of Android and Apple made it less necessary for manufacturers to build in custom functionality, but a new development may have just made it a lot harder to sweep under the rug.
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German antitrust watchdog plans action on Facebook this year Meanwhile, Germany is considering new data privacy regulations against Facebook on antitrust grounds, Douglas Busvine reports: Germany's antitrust watchdog expects to take first steps this year in its probe against Facebook after finding that the social media giant abused its market dominance to gather data on people without their knowledge or consent.
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As Institute for Local Self-Reliance co-director Stacy Mitchell told Gizmodo, the company's market dominance has given it an insurmountable advantage it uses to press retailers and manufacturers: Because most online shopping searches now start at Amazon, rather than at a search engine, virtually every retailer and manufacturer that wants to reach people online has little choice but to set up shop on Amazon's platform.
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The panel also argues there's an acceleration of market dominance in the modern digital economy that makes it even more necessary for governments to respond, writing that "network effects and returns to scale of data appear to be even more entrenched and the market seems to have stabilised quickly compared to the much larger degree of churn in the early days of the World Wide Web".
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP strategist predicts Biden will win nomination, cites fundraising strength 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (R-Texas) asked a detailed set of questions about Facebook's market dominance based off research from New York University, which Facebook sidestepped with the exact same answer it provided to Sen.
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Amazon has already been in the spotlight over its wage practices and market dominance, attracting criticism from lawmakers in both parties and from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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On June 27th she announced that she wants Google, the online-search giant, to pay a fine of €2.4bn ($2.7bn) for having given its price-comparison shopping service preferential treatment in its search results over rival offerings—abuse of market dominance, says the EU. The fine is more than double the largest amount ever imposed in a European antitrust ruling and around twice as large as experts watching the progress of the case were expecting.
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Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergHillicon Valley: Twitter to refuse all political ads | Trump camp blasts 'very dumb' decision | Ocasio-Cortez hails move | Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook's ad policies | GOP senator blocks sweeping election reform bill Zuckerberg defends buying Instagram amid antitrust scrutiny Ocasio-Cortez lauds Twitter's decision to refuse political ads MORE on Wednesday offered some of his first public comments on his company's controversial decision to buy Instagram amid intensifying scrutiny over Facebook's power and market dominance.
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Google and Facebook under scrutiny over UK ad market dominance The United Kingdom's competition czar is investigating how Google and Facebook "collect and exploit personal data and have used their power to dominate" the UK ad market, Mark Sweney reports: The Competition and Markets Authority's wide-ranging investigation into online advertising will focus on the sector's two biggest players, Google and Facebook, and look at whether "consumers are able and willing to control how data about them is used and collected".
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Rep. Keith EllisonKeith Maurice EllisonFormer Sanders aides launch consulting firm Minnesota AG will defend state's abortion restrictions despite personal views Hillicon Valley: House panel advances election security bill | GOP senator targets YouTube with bill on child exploitation | Hicks told Congress Trump camp felt 'relief' after release of Clinton docs | Commerce blacklists five Chinese tech groups MORE (D-Minn.) is calling for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to open a new investigation into Google and how it wields its market dominance.
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Keith EllisonKeith Maurice EllisonFormer Sanders aides launch consulting firm Minnesota AG will defend state's abortion restrictions despite personal views Hillicon Valley: House panel advances election security bill | GOP senator targets YouTube with bill on child exploitation | Hicks told Congress Trump camp felt 'relief' after release of Clinton docs | Commerce blacklists five Chinese tech groups MORE (D-Minn.), the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is urging the Federal Trade Commission to take another look at Google's online market dominance to determine if the search giant is stifling competition.
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So countries were granted the right to impose new tariffs under the following conditions (real trade lawyers know that I'm oversimplifying, but the essence is right): · Market disruption – a sudden surge of imports too fast for domestic producers to adjust to, in which case they could be given some breathing room · National security – making sure you're not dependent on potential enemies for crucial goods · Unfair practices – tariffs to counter, say, subsidized exports · Dumping – when foreign firms seem to be selling goods below cost in an attempt to establish market dominance In the U.S., who determines when one of these justifications applies?
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within the rating case for Alibaba include: - maintaining its market dominance in China's online shopping market, which is likely to grow at a CAGR of over 20% in the next three years - revenue growth to remain robust at a CAGR of over 20% in the next three years - operating margin, excluding share-based compensation, at 35%-40% in the next three years - annual capex of CNY0003 billion-27 billion in the next three years - USD6 billion share repurchase programme in FY18-19 - no cash dividend in the next three years RATING SENSITIVITIES Future Developments That May, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Positive Rating Action - Positive rating action is unlikely in the medium term, taking into account Fitch's expectation of profit growth.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within the rating case for Alibaba include: - maintaining its market dominance in China's online shopping market, which is likely to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 20% in the next three years - revenue growth to remain robust at a CAGR of over 20% in the next three years - operating margin, excluding share-based compensation, at 35%-40% in the next three years - annual capex of CNY20 billion-13 billion in the next three years - USD6 billion share repurchase programme in FY18-FY19 - no cash dividend in the next three years RATING SENSITIVITIES Future Developments That May, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Positive Rating Action - Positive rating action is unlikely in the medium term, taking into account Fitch's expectation of profit growth.
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