American elites are monopolizing progress, and monopolies can be broken.
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They're monopolizing the markets, so the rates will definitely go up.
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Avoid monopolizing the time of library staff with your tech-related questions.
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Xceligent believes that has the effect of monopolizing commercial real estate information.
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And far from monopolizing the market, pay TV companies continue to lose subscribers.
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The camera bump appears downright massive, monopolizing an impressive portion of the rear.
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Between 1998 and 2001, Microsoft was accused of monopolizing the computer operating-system market.
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In 2017, the European Union fined Google $2.7 billion for monopolizing shopping search results.
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For instance, want to break with the tradition of monopolizing the oven for hours?
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"I've never heard of an artist monopolizing a material," Furr told the Daily Mail.
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The sides are completely encased in a bumper, monopolizing considerable bezel space on the front.
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It's kinda like now, it's like you monopolizing the game, you know what I'm saying?
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Tesla, of course, gets to bring in additional service revenue by monopolizing the repair market.
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GE just lost an anti-trust case for monopolizing repair of anesthesia machines in Texas.
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Last month, 50 state attorneys general announced an investigation into Google for monopolizing ad markets.
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Not when the tech platforms have got so big they're at risk of monopolizing mainstream attention.
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The Supreme Court ruled this month that iPhone owners can sue Apple for monopolizing the App Store.
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Dinkas have long dominated politics and have long been accused by other groups of monopolizing top posts.
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"RewardStyle has been monopolizing the U.S. and UK, but there's nothing like this in Asia," she explained.
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It's undeniably an architectural masterpiece, monopolizing a full block of prime real estate in Havana's Vedado neighborhood.
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I mean, I'm not saying the Australian law enforcers are monopolizing Sandshrews, but also, like, maybe they are?
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Zuckerberg has long made the case that his company isn't just about amassing users and monopolizing advertising revenue.
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It's 1.5X the size of its predecessor, monopolizing a majority of the space in front of the keyboard.
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The space is made even more cramped by the giant treadmill monopolizing the middle third of the room.
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At the same time, his behavior over Vantablack, the groundbreaking black pigment he's monopolizing, has been selfish and childish.
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It's harder for regulation to grasp a company that, rather than monopolizing a market, has become the market itself.
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But for the 24 arrested in Naples, it looks like the days of monopolizing the bread scene are over.
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The regime led by President Nicolas Maduro kept up the charade, pretending to be a democracy while monopolizing power.
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Unable to label what I was to him, and certain I was monopolizing his attention unfairly, I pulled back.
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There's a fine line — or maybe not even so fine a line — between boosting morale and monopolizing the spotlight.
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And the US Supreme Court ruled this month that iPhone owners can sue Apple for monopolizing the App Store. Sen.
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Plus, there's the simple matter of monopolizing people's attention: users who play games in the Snapchat app aren't browsing Instagram.
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Not content with monopolizing specialty coffee beverages, the seasonal specialty is moving beyond drinks and heading to the snack aisle.
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If only for the hour a week that you can talk about yourself and not worry about monopolizing the conversation?
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There is no shortage of patients, and hospitals should be focused on critical care, not monopolizing the primary care market.
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Davidson is monopolizing a group of women that I would like to be dating (mainly, pop stars and actresses over 40).
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Or in the training room itself, as white people take center stage with their guilt and tears and monopolizing the conversation.
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Shkreli looks forward to defeating this baseless and unprecedented attempt by the FTC to sue an individual for monopolizing a market.
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Despite their differences, the participants agreed that they should work urgently to prevent radical Muslim groups from monopolizing the interpretation of Islam.
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The company is accused of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the iPhone app market and making consumers pay over the odds.
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Cohen is — O.K., deep breath — the Bears' handoff-taking, punt-returning, ball-catching, pass-throwing, mismatch-creating, gasp-inducing, highlight-monopolizing cyborg.
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With Mr. Trump monopolizing so much of the coverage of the campaign, his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has been far less visible.
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It alleges Colonial overcharged the companies by more than $60 million combined, and is potentially monopolizing fuel delivery into the New York region.
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In our phone conversation, Stoller noted that Uber's business model has been predicated on the idea of monopolizing markets and then raising prices.
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When Mary was alive, Rockwell had plunged into therapy, almost as if he couldn't stand the idea of Mary monopolizing the shrinks' attention.
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For companies seeking to reach the online mass market audience, they must advertise through Google and Facebook's digital advertising cartel, where Google is monopolizing search for consumers and search advertising for companies with a roughly 90% market share of all mobile searches, and Facebook is monopolizing social sharing for consumers and social media advertising for businesses with a roughly 90% market share.
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"Facebook is too big and too powerful, and it is unconscionable for financial companies to aid it in monopolizing our economic infrastructure," said Sen.
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Back home in Georgia, his time in office was tarnished by what critics said was his monopolizing power and exerting pressure on the judiciary.
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Gig companies are fundamentally unprofitable, their business model subsidized by venture capital that is focused on loss-leading, destroying competition, and monopolizing the industry.
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But political rivals accuse him of monopolizing power, while many non-Pashtuns believe he deliberately favors his own ethnic group at the expense of others.
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Yes, Mr. Trump has gained by monopolizing another day of news media heat, depriving his rivals of coverage with only four days until the caucuses.
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Guzman's partner, possible successor to the cartel as well as his possible betrayer, Ismael Zambada, made his millions exporting methamphetamine and monopolizing the American market.
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He skips around the board looking for Daily Doubles, gobbling them up before competitors find them, in the process monopolizing all the high-value questions.
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Apple ruling In a major setback for Apple, the Supreme Court ruled that iPhone owners can sue the tech giant for monopolizing its app store.
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The country is also entangled in disputes across the border, with its eastern and western neighbors - Bangladesh and Pakistan - accusing it of monopolizing water flows.
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In May 1998, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for monopolizing nearly every arena of computers: hardware, software, and finally, the internet.
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Gates's present-day argument in defense of big tech companies — that they're merely being innovative, not monopolizing — is similar to Microsoft's defense back in 1998.
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Despite monopolizing Iran's politics, the educational system, the courts, the security forces and most news media outlets, Iran's conservative leaders have long been in retreat.
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Now, going back to Facebook, also Google, I know you've criticized Google for monopolizing search, which has impacted Expedia, as well as your search assets.
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The topography of this new repression is a road map to his ultimate goal of monopolizing power and moving the country in a more Islamist direction.
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TV. Stanton said that firms like Google and Facebook are monopolizing the digital advertising market, and dismantling traditional newspapers and digital new outlets in the process.
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And with that, of course, comes more reason for neighbors to complain about everything from film crews monopolizing parking spaces to autograph-seekers hogging the sidewalks.
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India is entangled in water disputes with its eastern and western neighbors - Bangladesh and Pakistan - which accuse it of monopolizing water flows moving downstream toward them.
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Wirecutter, the New York Times company that reviews products, recommends the InterDesign Linus Medicine Cabinet Organizer because it provides plenty of organization without monopolizing the cabinet.
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On Monday, U.S. Supreme Court justices are presiding over a case that will determine if Apple has been monopolizing the iPhone app market through its App Store.
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Anand Giridharadas: The heart of the argument is that we live in an age of staggering inequality, that is fundamentally about a monopolizing of the future itself.
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"The controversy around the museum is emblematic of a larger problem, the way the ruling party is monopolizing the politics of memory and history," Mr. Dudek said.
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Opiated Seattle art goons gloomily monopolizing American teen angst for a half-generation—inspiring 299,22 regrettable tattoos and threatening to put the nation's barbers out of business.
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"These fractures (in the gangs) started two years ago, and that caused this violence that is all about monopolizing the production of the drug," Jesus Garcia said.
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Opiated Seattle art goons gloomily monopolizing American teen angst for a half-generation—inspiring 100,000 regrettable tattoos and threatening to put the nation's barbers out of business.
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The plaintiffs in the suit claim that by shutting out third part that will determine if Apple has been monopolizing the iPhone app market through its App Store.
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Despite its best intentions and willingness to call Google to task for its monopolizing business practices, DuckDuckGo is not entirely free from the grips of the Big Five.
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China's biggest tech companies have thrived at home, easily beating out what little foreign competition they face and monopolizing several industries at once — but at a steep cost.
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Mark Zuckerberg's social network has weaseled its way into monopolizing our online lives by taking advantage of our human tendencies, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to resist.
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It is an important move to tackle the monopolizing power of large corporations in the tech and transport industry, to prioritize workers' rights over a C.E.O.'s paycheck.
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A creeping fear that Beijing is creating debt traps across the developing world and monopolizing profits has compelled Myanmar officials to suspend or renegotiate hydropower and port deals.
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But, just because the fleeting likes of Instagram Stories and TikTok are monopolizing our sights doesn't mean the lasting power of a physical snapshot is lost on us.
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Moreover, the Bryant-esque practice of a single player taking over a team's offense and monopolizing the ball for long stretches of shot-hunting isolation play is almost anathema.
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Chevron, Valero and Delta complained to FERC that Colonial overcharged the companies by more than $60 million combined, and is potentially monopolizing fuel delivery into the New York region.
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It specifically calls out everything from being noisy (obvs) to "using books as a footstool or pillow," to monopolizing more than one of its electrical outlets at a time.
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Of course, there have been cases in which guests have overstayed their welcome, hanging around for more than a night or two, monopolizing the host's living room, and kitchen.
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Pepper, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, found that the four plaintiffs, who originally sued Apple in 2011 for unlawfully monopolizing the sale iPhone apps, could move forward with their case.
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Ever since Donald Trump started monopolizing headlines in the United States, I have made it a point to ask people around the world their thoughts about the American presidential campaign.
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Word Focus Mode hides all of the interface ribbons from the screen, monopolizing the display with a page, while all of the editing input moves down to the Touch Bar.
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This form of data collection is the first of its kind for Safari, aimed at identifying sites that use excessive power and crash the browser by monopolizing too much memory.
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The devices have also, unsurprisingly, proven a popular with the New York homeless community, who have been "monopolizing the Link tablets," according to a statement issued by the LinkNYC team.
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"They have become the organization monopolizing the credentialing and vetting of judges," Hollis-Brusky said of the Federalist Society, which monitors judges and pressures them to uphold conservative legal interpretations.
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They, and other right-to-repair supporters, accuse tech companies of monopolizing the repair market (worth an estimated $4 billion) and making it hard or expensive for consumers to repair devices.
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Supreme Court justices will take up Apple's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
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When I asked LG's Taylor to respond to the common argument that manufacturers are monopolizing repair with these programs and by locking down access to parts, he disagreed with that characterization.
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"Some users have been monopolizing the Link tablets and using them inappropriately, preventing others from being able to use them while frustrating the residents and businesses around them," the announcement reads.
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While some set up more informal rackets, such as Lieutenant-Governor Walter F. Hale who was accused of monopolizing the rice trade, others established businesses like the Benguet Consolidated Mining Company.
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Well, a candidate can only be in Iowa so often — especially with the demands of the 24/7 TV news cycle, the nationalized campaign, and big-money fundraising monopolizing their time.
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The level of danger posed by Russia -- and Russia's ability to strategically destroy the foundations of our democracy -- monopolized the hearing because it should be monopolizing our policy focus and response.
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Some local activists accused the military of monopolizing the supply, and since international humanitarian organizations do not have direct access to the city, it's impossible to verify who received the aid.
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This comes after a U.S. judge saying that the company must face a lawsuit which accuses it of trying to drive up the price of high-grade zinc by monopolizing the market.
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And monopolizing people's time and attention via a suite of increasingly dominant platforms ultimately has the same effect as a physical takeover of the third party app space on their handset's homescreen.
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"This sends a clear signal to others that they could be easily removed within this strategy of monopolizing power around the palace, and this creates the chance of political instability," Sharan said.
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Sanders says he would legalize marijuana within 100 days via executive action and fight against large marijuana companies monopolizing the market to ensure communities of color are able to benefit from the industry.
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If the tech giants were monopolizing the labor market, one would expect to see: falling employment by the monopsonist's competitors, declining wages and increasing job tenure, since there are fewer competing job opportunities.
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My motivation to DO. I have found that I just don't need to nap nearly as often as I had anticipated because the relentless monopolizing draw on my energy is no longer there.
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American lawmakers and policymakers have tried to prevent China from monopolizing data-related infrastructure by barring Huawei and other Chinese telecom equipment firms from building any part of America's next-generation telecom network.
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U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday will take up Apple's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
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"Health care and tax cuts are two gorillas monopolizing the agenda — those two issues are so front and center, and so pivotal for the administration, not much else substantive gets done," the source said.
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Brandeis, who had cemented his reputation as "the people's lawyer" during his six-year crusade to prevent banker J.P. Morgan from monopolizing New England's railroads, was the chief intellectual architect of the New Deal.
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Maybe the toxic individual who has succeeded in monopolizing the attention of the nation and (to a large degree) the world is himself a kind of black hole of insight, a vortex of meaning.
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All an attacker needs to do is generate a bunch of node IDs that are likely to be selected for connections by a target node, monopolizing all the node's outgoing connections with fraudulent connections.
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Dollar General spokeswoman, Crystal Ghassemi, told the Wall Street Journal that the retailer "isn't and never intended to be a grocery store," but they're monopolizing the grocery market in some communities all the same.
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Google is also currently under investigation by the EU for illegally tying the Android operating system with Google search, on monopolizing advertising, and a couple of other issues–in total five different antitrust investigations.
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Peg learns about the crooked world of debt collecting and realizes that she's really good at getting people to give her money over the phone — much better than the local townies currently monopolizing the industry.
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Amazon is evidently in the process of monopolizing the e-commerce distribution market, with its 80 million Amazon Prime subscribers in the US representing a more than 80% share of online e-commerce buying power.
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The limit on the amount of tokens that can be bought at IEOs - usually capped at $20,000 - has enhanced the attractiveness of these offerings to retail investors and has prevented bigger investors from monopolizing them.
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The search giant just received a record $5 billion fine from the European Union over monopolizing the search engine on Android phones, which the commission said illegally "cemente[ed] its dominant position" for search engines.
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If there is one thing we know about Donald Trump by now, it is that he is masterful at monopolizing media attention by teasing a political revelation that either disappoints or never comes to pass.
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His full-time job, he says, is trying to craft a world "after neoliberalism" — one with a heavier hand of government and a smaller role for corporate power, one perhaps without Twitter monopolizing our sidewalks.
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When Akhmad Kadyrov was killed in a terrorist attack in 2004, his son took his place, muscling out rival strongmen and monopolizing power in the republic by placing his people in charge of federal institutions.
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Watch a lot of television documentaries and docu-series, as I do, and you might have started to feel over the last few years as if a handful of subjects were monopolizing filmmakers' attention. Syria.
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In fact, even just one company more or less completely monopolizing the market for a given commodity would be fine as long as the monopolist uses its monopoly power to hurt producers rather than consumers.
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Shares of Apple Inc sank 75.2% on the double-whammy of heightened trade tensions and a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow an antitrust suit against the company for monopolizing the iPhone app market.
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Shares of Apple Inc sank 8.30% on the double whammy of heightened trade tensions and a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow an antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing the iPhone app market.
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Trump was previously accused of monopolizing an umbrella in January, when he appeared to let his wife and their son Barron Trump, 12, take the brunt of a storm as the trio boarded Air Force One.
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A federal appeals court has declined to revive a lawsuit accusing Pennsylvania structured settlement company J.G. Wentworth of monopolizing its industry, saying the competitor suing did not show it had standing to bring an antitrust claim.
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Some people may exhibit a few tendencies like being arrogant or monopolizing every conversation while others may have full-blown narcissistic personality disorder, though that only affects 0.5% and 1% of the general population, mostly men.
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In China, the homegrown WeChat is the dominant messaging force for monopolizing mobile users' attention, via a platform that plugs in all sorts of additional third party services, from ride-hailing to banking to food ordering.
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The tech giants are seen today as monopolizing internet search and commerce, and they are angling to take over industries such as publishing and automobiles, raising alarms at antitrust agencies in Europe and the United States.
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The tricky part is figuring out whether Trump's strong support across the party's various constituencies merely reflects his celebrity status and gift for monopolizing media attention or more broadly represents a political movement of the future.
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But Mr. Passin, who was inspired to enter finance by the story of Thales, an ancient Greek philosopher who became rich by monopolizing olive presses before a bumper harvest he had foreseen in the stars, remains undeterred.
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New York (CNN)In a case that rocked the tech world Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that iPhone owners could sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the market for apps through the app store and jacking up prices.
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Obama-era regulators approved the merger despite well-documented worries about such a large company monopolizing not only the broadband and cable connections to the home, but the information and news being sent over those same lines.
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According to the Long War Journal, its brand of Islamism is unique, having been partly modeled on the Taliban: one that tolerates all Sunnis and is willing to engage in "normal politics and diplomacy" without monopolizing governance.
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The nine justices will hear arguments in Apple's bid to escape damages in a lawsuit accusing it of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for iPhone apps and causing consumers to pay more than they should.
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News Corp was accused of monopolizing the U.S. market for in-store promotion services, where it acts as a middleman to help companies promote goods through coupon dispensers, electronic signs, end-of-aisle displays and shopping cart ads.
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I'm working by 5:103, but unfortunately another fire drill pops up for the case that has been monopolizing my time, and I have to shift focus to that from the case I was planning to work on.
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In fact, with Republicans monopolizing power in the White House and in Congress, chances of reform appear less promising for Democrats than when President Barack Obama failed to do so after the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012.
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Apple shares were also hit by news that the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the market for its software applications and forcing them to overpay.
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The debate about the future of moviegoing shouldn't be a binary one between a studio system increasingly beholden to franchises and intellectual property, and a nihilistic streaming service set on eliminating all competitors and monopolizing its users' attention.
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For the past several years, I have worked from home, which is more-or-less a way of implying that I'm one of the d-bags with a laptop monopolizing the wall outlets at your favorite coffee shop.
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Nervously sweating, he compared his moral standing to that of Facebook and Google, who he said have gotten away with monopolizing advertising and search, only to return back from Washington to learn his company used the same practices.
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Getting back to the present day, Wark elaborates on the notion of commanding or, better yet, "monopolizing attention" as the goal of the ideal vector-driven public self, which must represent a diligent consumer to support the economy.
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Of course Cook's position also aligns with Apple's hardware-dominated business model — in which the company makes most of its money by selling premium priced, robustly encrypted devices, rather than monopolizing people's attention to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday will take up Apple Inc's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
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A Trump endorsement of the anti-terror bill would also align the presumptive GOP nominee with Democratic gun reformers, who spent most of Wednesday monopolizing the Senate floor to pressure Republican leaders to take action following the Orlando attack.
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Like Anthony, Irving has a reputation for isolation play, and for being no more than an adequate passer, not ideal when you're a point guard known for monopolizing the ball (in Cleveland, especially when James was off the floor).
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Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple are increasingly monopolizing the ways we consume information, are using algorithms to sort us into parallel existences and planes of truth, and are constantly working to obtain further control over their platforms and ecosystems.
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First, Mr. Cruz cannot be trusted as the hard-liner he claims to be on immigration — an issue that Mr. Trump elevated to the forefront in the Republican primary, and which he apparently is intent on monopolizing from the right.
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Mugabe, who turns 91 in February and the only leader Zimbabweans have known since 1980, made one of his regular swipes at Western powers who he accuses of still harboring colonial ambitions and of monopolizing power at the United Nations.
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"Some users have been monopolizing the Link tablets" The news comes just hours after a new report from Motherboard detailed the growing trend of poor or homeless New Yorkers camping out in front of the tablets to browse the web.
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As the debate over whether Amazon is monopolizing retail presses on, we pointed to a lurking data question for the e-commerce behemoth: Will regulators question the mountain of behavioral data Amazon has about its hundreds of millions of customers' shopping habits?
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Those were the salad days for the titans of tech: Digital billionaires were superheroes feted on magazine covers and in the White House, not super villains hauled before Congress for fixing elections, sowing genocide, undermining truth and monopolizing all the globe's commerce.
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That's not to mention the greater amount of freedom offered on Android phones, from being able to choose from multiple phone manufacturers (rather than just the one iOS-monopolizing Apple) to crafting a customizable homepage full of Android-specific widgets and shortcuts.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could prevent foreign firms monopolizing the market for genetically modified (GM) seeds by allowing the sale of only locally developed varieties, a government think-tank has said, in a boost for transgenic mustard produced by a Delhi group.
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But many Americans could think only of Donn Fendler, a 20143-year-old boy lost on Mount Katahdin in Maine, the object of a frantic search and rescue operation that dragged on for nine days, monopolizing the radio airwaves and newspaper headlines.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Apple Inc's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing it of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and causing consumers to pay more than they should.
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And that includes even the most basic terms we use to describe the debate over abortion rights: The anti-abortion camp has long described itself as "pro-life" instead, monopolizing a powerful word that advocates say clouds their real intention—to ban abortion.
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A lot of ink (or bytes) has been spilled on America's "monopoly moment" — how concentrated political and economic power are propelling inequality and whether America's dominant "tech titans" are monopolizing not only online commerce, but our attention and possibly even our democracy.
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The firms include heavy hitters like Hagens Berman, which boasts work on cases including the state tobacco lawsuits that led to a $206 billion settlement, as well as Cohen Milstein, which co-led a case against Apple for monopolizing the market for e-books.
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WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Apple Inc's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing it of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and causing consumers to pay more than they should.
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But the authorities eventually implicated the Brotherhood in monopolizing drug dealing, gambling, extortion, prostitution and other prison rackets, as well as murdering guards and rivals, fomenting racial warfare among prisoners, recruiting ex-convicts as accessories and even extorting tribute from John Gotti, the Mafia boss.
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A press release out of Seoul this morning confirmed a few key hardware specs for the upcoming flagship — namely the 5.7-inch 2,880 x 1,440 display that stretches nearly edge to edge, monopolizing most of the front of the phone with an 18:9 inch aspect ratio.
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He joined the court's four liberal justices in a 5-23 ruling in May that let a class action lawsuit proceed against Apple Inc in which consumers accused the technology company of violating antitrust law by monopolizing the market for iPhone applications through its App Store.
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When I leave my baby with a sitter to go work in a nearby library, I pump in a stall in the public restroom; when I'm shuttling between meetings, I try to avoid monopolizing the john in establishments that only have one, squeezing my boobs out as fast as I can.
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The Federal Trade Commission and New York's attorney general on Monday sued incarcerated "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli and his firm Vyera Pharmaceuticals for allegedly "illegally monopolizing" the anti-parasite medication Daraprim — costing patients and other purchasers to pay tens of millions of dollars more each year than they otherwise would.
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People like Max Factor and George Westmore were monopolizing the film industry (Westmore established the first film makeup department, while Factor's formulas revolutionized how makeup was made), steering the general public's interest directly to the beauty counter, where female founders like Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein were already household names.
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I think when you live in an age of extreme inequality, like this one of hoarding, elite hoarding, elite monopolizing of the future itself … if you are a serious person who wants to give in better ways, the only acceptable kind of giving is traitor-to-your-class giving, right?
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Twitter can claim a little distance from that business model not only because it's considerably less successful than Facebook at generating money by monopolizing attention, but also because it provides greater leeway for its users to build and follow their own interest networks, free from algorithmic interference (though it does do algorithms too).
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One of his main strategies for winning the nomination was monopolizing the votes of the evangelical Christians prevalent in southern states, and Trump foiled that in South Carolina two weeks ago, foiled that again in many states on Super Tuesday, and foiled that once more on Saturday, when he won Kentucky and Louisiana.
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A fast-talking, 38-year-old Indian American with an all-black wardrobe and a preternatural ability to go viral on Twitter, Giridharadas argues "we live in an age of staggering inequality that is fundamentally about a monopolizing of the future itself," as he told me for my first TechCrunch column in March.
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Since these three companies are in the process of aggregating and monopolizing most mass media via the internet by inserting themselves in the middle of almost all online activities, and since the government has granted online intermediaries special immunity from liability for what happens on their platforms, these companies warrant a new moniker: the intermedia.
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"By trying to focus attention on GDPR, Zuckerberg is presumably trying to protect Facebook by getting out ahead of other regulation and trying to avoid getting into conversations about competition law and breaking up these monopolizing tech giants," said Jennifer Cobbe, coordinator of the Trust & Technology Initiative at the University of Cambridge, in an email to CNBC on Sunday.
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What was surprising is this time, the runner throwing the sledgehammer was Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' MORE, who sided with the four liberal justices to rule that customers could sue Apple over its allegedly monopolizing conduct.
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In order to show that it's actually going to have a dangerous probability of monopolizing that second market, courts have required that you show that they already have at least a 50 percent market share in that second market, which largely renders that claim useless, because by the time Google has more than a 50 percent share in a market that it's trying to go into, the problem has already happened.
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When I think of Islamists monopolizing and weaponizing a great religion, I am filled with rage — rage at the audacity to shout Allah's name while sending innocent people to their deaths; rage at the perversion of so many minds by their religious leaders; rage at the reality of living in a brown body that is stereotyped, misperceived and disfigured beyond my recognition — and there is nothing I can do to save it.
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But even there Facebook's platform is implicated because Brexit — which was itself sold to voters via the medium of unregulated social media ads (with the Electoral Commission finding earlier this year that the official Vote Leave campaign used Facebook's funnel to bypass electoral law) — is rather monopolizing ministerial attention these days… One of the questions committee members are keen to get an answer to from Facebook is who at the company knew in the earliest incidence about the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.
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