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Recently the House Judiciary Committee released its antitrust report on Amazon, Apple Google and Facebook called Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets. The 449-page report detailed how these companies bought competitors, preference their own services and wielded too much power over the other competitors that used their platforms. Now the US Department of Justice has […]
Today the House Judiciary Committee released its antitrust report on Amazon, Apple Google and Facebook called Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets. The 449-page report detailed how these companies bought competitors, preference their own services and wielded too much power over the other competitors that used their platforms. The report opened with a recap of […]
Disney recently added the musical Hamilton to its streaming service where millions of subscribers got to see the hit musical for the very first time. With many musicals, the story and the music stays with you long after you experience it. The Epic War to free the platforms is soon to overshadow the Hey email […]
It has certainly been an interesting year…so far. At Platform De.Central we have been focused on antitrust issues regarding platform power since day one. It is core to our mission – Work x Play without limits. Today we use our devices to be productive, creative and sometimes blowoff some steam with a good gaming session. […]
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK are now scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Google that affects user’s privacy and choice on iPhone and iPad devices. In a new study called “Online platforms and digital advertising market study, ” the UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) found that “competition is not working well […]
With Apple in the Antitrust hotseat, Microsoft’s President Brad Smith calling fora conversation abou the nature of App Stores, while not calling out Apple specifically. It’s no secret by now to our regular readers, Apple created the modern App Store model, Google copied it and together they have laid waste to other mobile platforms such […]
Today Hey.com said that after it launched its Hey email service Apple threatened to remove their app from the Apple App Store unless they give Apple 15-30% of their revenue by adding in-app-purchase integration. This came a day after Apple touted its Apple Store and how it was responsible for facilitating $519 billion in 2019. […]
When a firm holds too much market power in any sector, we then see these firms begin to abuse its power in order to stay on top and Amazon has been accused of just that. Now Amazon is facing a new EU antitrust case. We recently reported that Amazon had reportedly accessed 3rd party seller […]
Welcome back to our editorial series In the Land of Trillion Dollar Goliaths. Today Apple hit a new high in market value as many others keep climbing toward 2 Trillion and while on its face, it seems like a good thing, the problem lies in the question “at what cost?” What we are witnessing is […]
Amazon is big, so big in fact that it is suppressing competition from smaller competitors. There has been louder and louder war drum beats to break up the Trillion Dollar Giants such as Amazon. We recently wrote about Amazon’s monopoly power and how they pillaged 3rd party seller data in order to undercut them with […]