Google is appealing its search monopoly ruling and asks to pause remedies during the appeal - shocking :P https://www.seroundtable.com/google-appeals-search-monopoly-ruling-40781.html
Google is appealing its search monopoly ruling and asks to pause remedies during the appeal - shocking :P https://www.seroundtable.com/google-appeals-search-monopoly-ruling-40781.html
President Donald Trump says he will be personally involved in the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, with two enormous buyout offers on the table that risk further exacerbating U.S. media concentration. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal last week to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which would give the tech giant control of the Warner Bros. movie studio and rival streaming service HBO Max. Paramount Skydance then launched a hostile takeover bid worth $108 billion that would create a Hollywood behemoth and bring CBS News and CNN under the same roof, in addition to a host of other media properties. Paramount Skydance is controlled by the pro-Trump billionaires Larry Ellison and his son David; the takeover offer is also backed financially by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Media critics and anti-monopoly advocates have warned that both offers for Warner Bros. should be rejected by federal regulators, though the Trump administration has largely ended aggressive antitrust enforcement. “We have these giant companies trying to take control of even more of what we watch, see, hear and read every day,” says Craig Aaron, the co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action, two media reform organizations. He calls the media giants’ efforts to woo Trump “a Mafia-type situation” and warns that previous media mega-mergers have been “disastrous” for workers, consumers and the businesses themselves.
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How Jon Stewart may have helped the DOJ’s fight with Apple
Antitrust advocates say Stewart’s disclosure could help federal enforcers make their case that Apple is leveraging its alleged smartphone monopoly to exert power over other markets, including by pushing to stifle content in streaming and podcasts.
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"The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming.
Their bosses refused to sue."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/google-files-mobile-search-market-475576
Capitalism
Ideologically capitalism may be an economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services, but in reality man is been taken by all the products being created and has fallen victim of its own greed.
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To remember:
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To take note:
Capitalism brought perhaps bigger portions of the means of production and material owned by the individual, who takes more than he really needs. This results in voracity and a figurative and literal bulimia.
Normally goods and services should be traded competitively in the free market but we notice that certain groups gain such power that they push out all competitors and get monopolies (often under the form of sub-companies, so that people do not notice it).
The owners of small capital (smallholders) are just not able to compete against the owners of capital and big concerns or multinationals.
The writer says the advantage of capitalism is “Improved quality of goods”, but we clearly can see, and in Europe it is proven that many companies lowered the quality of their products or the life-age, so that they can sell more. Quality has been left aside to gain quantity.
The writer of the article also finds it an advantage that “products are more varied”, but today we have less variety of choice than 40 years ago. The companies press and present that what they want to sell and the consumer just has to follow. Today it is impossible to find in the shops the same maps as you used for your filing cabinet 2 or more years ago.
Today we can see enough proof how capitalism fooled the people and how much it brought failure to the creation. Animals and plants have become the greatest victims of human greed and search for a capitalist world, where they can not share any more.
Unless we “embrace radical change ourselves” very soon we shall drown ourselves, taking many with us.
Perhaps more people would consider the words spoken by the new Pope Francis:
“If we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!”
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