Monopoly

Is Google a monopoly? No. What about the National Association of Realtors—does it deserve this moniker? Certainly not. Did monopoly status ever fit

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Steven Landsburg lamenting the disappearance of `price theory’ from the Economics curriculum. Price theory is what some Economists at …

Here’s how the landmark antitrust decision against Google may change how you browse the web.

Google has illegally held a monopoly in search and text advertising, a federal judge ruled on Monday

Trying to dominate the market isn’t an example of anti-competitive behavior. It’s what real competition consists of.

On Sept 26, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegall...

Many worry that monopolies will run rampant without regulation. The market process, however, illustrates a different story. And while banning monopolies via anti-trust law may sound good, the actual practice amounts to fighting fire with fire.

Parmigiano Reggiano has used tracking codes for two decades, but now they are going high tech.

A court in the US has ruled that cheese does not have to come from the Gruyère region of Switzerland to be sold under this name.

PARIS (AP) — Google is being fined 220 million euros ($268 million) by France’s antitrust watchdog for abusing its ‘dominant’ position in online advertising. The search engine giant is also promising to overhaul the way its platform is used for buying and selling digital ads, at least in France, which could have repercussions on its ongoing legal fights with regulators elsewhere in Europe, the U.S.

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Michigan regulators on Thursday approved a $100 million electric rate hike for Consumers Energy, authorizing the state's second-largest utility to bill the average residential customer about $9 more per month starting in January.The increase for residents is nearly 12 percent after factoring in…

The lawsuit marks the first major antitrust litigation against a technology company since the DOJ's case against Microsoft in the late '90s.

The lawsuit is yet another legal battle for Google, embroiled in state and federal antitrust scrutiny.

The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.

The U.S. government on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Visa Inc from purchasing the financial technology company Plaid.