The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law recently published a Democrats-only supported Report (which is being covered in greater detail in additional posts in this ongoing…

Ethan Wham · October 16, 2020

…services that are delivered over the Internet, and how innovation will impact future networks and business models for electronic communications. Commissioner Breton calls for investment… Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton,…

Rudolf van der Berg · February 21, 2023

A while back I wrote about the European Commission’s competition investigation into the Android operating system (OS) and today’s mobile platform competition. The main argument of my previous post was…

Jakob Kucharczyk · January 11, 2017

…$4,336 per incremental takedown. These additional costs ultimately discourage competition by impacting smaller intermediaries more than larger sites. Startups and small companies have fewer resources to spend on compliance, and…

Trevor Wagener and Kara Cade · April 19, 2023

…as a policy preference. Policy is about priorities and trade-offs, and these trade-offs are important to understand and communicate. For example, in 1912 the Federal Trade Commission broke up the…

Matthew Lane · April 15, 2019

…studies on competition enforcement in the digital economy have been published analyzing how competition enforcement can adapt to these challenges. Some countries, like Germany, have adapted their competition laws to…

Project Disco · December 9, 2021

…particular order. These macros could be quite complex, including thousands of individual commands. Borland developed a competing spreadsheet program with its own code and command structure. However, Borland wrote the…

Jonathan Band · May 16, 2014

…free. This frustrates the industries’ complete control, but it comes with a lot of benefits for artists, who can now connect with fans directly. Recently, due to this frustration, the…

Ali Sternburg · August 7, 2012

…TripAdvisor’s fat margins. Antitrust enforcement isn’t supposed to protect companies from competition — even if that competition comes from well-funded competitors. Antitrust aims to protect competition from companies. The beneficiary…

Daniel O'Connor · April 3, 2013

…this paradigm shift in mind, stories about Instagram’s “mobile first” strategy should not come as a surprise. The trend of Internet companies spending most of their development money on the…

Daniel O'Connor · February 8, 2013