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China's competition watchdog is adding staff and other resources as it ramps up efforts to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour, especially among the country's powerful companies, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Need further assistance? Please call Member Services at 1-800-333-0663 How Stronger Antitrust Rules for Big Tech Could Help Consumers Bipartisan effort could improve products and services as well as increase competition, experts say By Allen St. John SHARES
ENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images Tech companies are facing pressure from all sides: governments, consumers, and their own employees. It's resulting in governments worldwide issuing new regulations or filing landmark lawsuits. Consumers and employees are also putting pressure on tech firms to evaluate their impact on society. The walls are closing in on the tech industry. Governments from Australia to the US are cracking down on big tech companies. Employees are working to form unions at firms like Google and Amazon. And consumers appear to be more distrustf...
When Tech Antitrust Failed Credit...Angie Wang to receive it weekdays. If you’ve wondered recently why prices for e-books seem high, let me tell you why a failure of antitrust law might be (partly) to blame. A government antitrust lawsuit a decade ago that was intended to push down prices helped lead instead to higher ones. The outcome suggests that the U.S. government’s lawsuits against Google and Facebook and a just-announced Connecticut antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book business may not have the desired effects, even if the governments win. It turns out that trying to cha...