#Microsoft is being investigated by the #FTC over #antitrust concerns

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/27/24307790/microsoft-is-being-investigated-by-the-ftc-over-antitrust-concerns

But in recent years Microsoft has mostly escaped the kind of antitrust scrutiny applied to #Amazon, #Apple, #Meta, and #Google, each of which is fighting its own #monopoly charges from the #government.

If you call it Meta instead of #Facebook then Google is #Alphabet. Good journalism is so hard to find... 😩

#economy #politics #justice #siliconvalley #technology #Software #Problem #future #capitalism #internet #news #usa

Biden Asked Microsoft to “Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity.” He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-white-house-offer-cybersecurity-biden-nadella

Reporting Highlights

• Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.” So Microsoft offered the government free upgrades and the consultants to install them.
• Competitive Advantage: While the plan helped the government bolster cybersecurity, it also helped Microsoft tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out its competitors.
• Money for Nothing: Legal and contracting experts say the deals never should have come to pass, as they sidestep or even possibly violate federal procurement and antitrust laws.

#monopoly #monopolies #microsoft #propublica #cybersecurity #security #safety #biden #it #antitrust #antitrust-law

I heard the judge at Google's antitrust trial left to coach Kamala Harris for her Presidential debate, but after looking for more information on (ironically?) Google, I discovered it wasn't the judge, it was Google's lead defense attorney, which is a lot less weird, but is still a little weird.

"Karen Dunn, a litigator at Paul Weiss, opened Google's defense in a federal court case targeting its digital ad business. Shortly after, she reportedly helped Harris prepare for her debate with Donald Trump in Philadelphia."

What's y'all's predictions for how these antitrust cases are going to turn out for Google? Business as usual or a radical change in Google's business practices?

Who is Karen Dunn? Key figure behind Kamala Harris' debate preparations

#solidstatelife #domesticpolitics #monopoly #antitrust

What do you do with a problem like Google?

Or more technically Alphabet.

The company's quite clearly not only a monopoly (duh) but an abusive one (duh), and has been for years, if not decades.

It's also, however, a rather complex assemblage of bits which as I've noted in the past has an interesting combination of both rent-seeking activities (advertising) and stuff that looks strongly like "public goods" in the technical economic sense: nonrivalrous and nonexcludable in consumption with near-nil marginal costs: search, browser development, and a bunch of other stuff.

Along with roles which don't fit well into traditional anti-trust space, most especially an insane level of data aggregation and control over flows (Web, email, consumption, real-space audio and video monitoring, and more).

I'm not fully up to speed on recent judicial findings (DC Circuit judge Amit P. Mehta), though I've followed some discussion.

Past anti-trust cases have involved regional divestment (AT&T, funny how that worked out), consent decrees (AT&T again ~1954, IBM, Xerox, Kodak, Microsoft, Facebook, Google), which have had some useful benefits (AT&T's exclusion from software/computer markets directly gave rise to Unix, Linux, and much of MacOS, Microsoft slowed down a smidge after its 1990s knuckle-rap), but leave me underwhelmed.

Anyhow, have at it, discuss. Seriously if at all possible, thanks.

Reshares welcomed, discussion on original if possible.

#Google #AlphabetInc #Antitrust #monopoly #AntitrustRemedies

Joe Biden must bust up the media

Don’t look now, but we just witnessed a major seismic event in American media.

Monday afternoon a federal judge ruled that Google’s parent company violated U.S. antitrust laws. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the District of Columbia opens the door to a second trial to determine potential remedies to Google's monopolization of the search market. It is the Justice Department's first victory over a monopoly in more than 20 years.

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/06/joe-biden-must-bust-up-the-media/

#monopolies #google #biden #antitrust

Billionaire Orders Kamala Harris to Fire Lina Khan

#politics #monopoly #antitrust

Uh oh.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/billionaire-orders-kamala-harris

#Fortnite maker #Epic Games wins #antitrust case against #Google

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/epic-games-antitrust-google-lawsuit-1.7056246

Now it will be up to Donato to determine what steps Google will have to take to unwind its illegal behaviour in the #PlayStore. The judge indicated he will hold hearings on the issue during the second week of January.

No surprise Google is evil again 😈

#justice #app #economy #Android #capitalism #monopoly #profit #software #news

#EU opens #antitrust inquiry into #Microsoft’s #Teams #software | Microsoft | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/27/eu-antitrust-inquiry-microsofts-sale-teams-bundling

#ProprietarySoftware #MonopolisticPractice #AnticompetitiveBehaviour

Partages info-culturels du 28/01/2023

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En vrac : un rattrapage du plus significatif que j'ai déjà partagé récemment + divers autres liens susceptibles de vous intéresser mais n'incluant pas volontairement ce que vous avez déjà partagé ! Une #RevueDeWeb illustrée à l’aide de #MidJourney et #WordCloudLayout

Pourquoi l'économie mondiale repose entièrement sur Taïwan et TSMC | korii.

#économie #technologie #taïwan #semiconducteur #électronique #tsmc #industrie

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A Hot New Weight Loss Drug Is Rapidly Aging Users' Faces

#médicament #santé #pertedepoids #vieillissement

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Un chat meurt de la grippe aviaire dans les Deux-Sèvres : "Une première mondiale"

#grippeaviaire #h5n1 #chat #franchissementdelabarrièredespèces

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Universal Digital Payments Network launched at Davos

#davos #foruméconomiquemondial #réseaudepaiementnumériqueuniversel #cryptomonnaie #monnaienumérique #banque #udpn

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CLI tools you won't be able to live without 🔧 - DEV Community 👩‍💻

#outillage #lignedecommande #linux

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Vitamin D Status in Hospitalized Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | Oxford Academic

#covid19 #santé #vitamined #étude

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Méditation de pleine conscience : des bénéfices en santé variés

#santé #santémentale #méditationdepleineconscience #stress

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SFR fermera son réseau 2G en 2026, puis la 3G en 2028

#opérateursdetéléphonie #sfr #réseaumobile #2g #3g

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Travailler moins permet d'obtenir une plus grande satisfaction dans la vie, tout comme gagner un revenu élevé, selon une nouvelle étude publiée dans la revue Health Economics

Surprise 🙄

#travail #bienêtre #qualitédevie #étude

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Laurence Devillers sur Twitter : "Je suis impliquée dans la normalisation de l’IA au CEN CENELEC notamment sur les aspects de manipulation de masse ! Il est urgent de s’impliquer sur ces sujets et d’arrêter de dire que la régulation européenne est dépassée ! Elle n’est pas encore là messieurs les experts ! https://t.co/8Lsm1kKXPH" / Twitter

#laurencedevillers #intelligenceartificielle #unioneuropéenne #législation #tweet

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La Russie affirme avoir intercepté des missiles de fabrication américaine au-dessus de son territoire

#conflitrussoukrainien #missile #étatsunis #ukraine #russie #guerre

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Au Brésil, les forêts se portent mieux lorsque les autochtones ont des droits sur les terres

#environnement #écologie #forêt #brésil #autochtone #droitsurlaterre #droitfoncier #indigène #droitsdepropriétéfoncière #déforestation #étude

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L’instabilité des revenus, une source de mal-être de plus en plus répandue

Surprise 🙄

#entreprise #entrepreneuriat #autoentrepreneuriat #économieàlatâche #gigeconomy #travailleurindépendant #revenu #économie #flexibilité #irrégularité #salaire #rémunération #instabilité #santé #stress #anxiété

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Particules fines : le potentiel oxydant, indicateur de leur nocivité | IRD le Mag'

#environnement #pollution #particulesfines #potentieloxydant #oxydation #santé #santépublique #étude

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Une nouvelle classe de peptides pour remplacer les produits chimiques en agriculture | INSB

#agriculture #peptide #écologie #expressiongénétique #résistance #étude #stressbiotique #stressabiotique

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PiStorm32 lite – Accélérateur à base de Raspberry Pi pour Amiga 1200 – MicroMiga

😍😍😍

#amiga #retrogaming #raspberrypi

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"Méga-bassines" : un militant écologiste découvre un traceur GPS de la police sous son véhicule

#police #militantisme #écologie #traçage #pistage #gps #mégabassine #julienleguet

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[Café des Sciences] Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, De l’utopie atomique au déni climatique - YouTube

#conférence #conférencedébat #jeanbaptistefressoz #énergie #transitionénergétiqueetécologique #histoire #société #politique #écologie #gazàeffetdeserre #co2 #réchauffementclimatique #cafédessciences

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This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here's Why : ScienceAlert

#physique #physiquequantique #physiquequantiquedeschamps #spin

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Les mini-réacteurs nucléaires (SMR) sont-ils un mirage? | korii.

#nucléaire #réacteurnucléaire #centralenucléaire #miniréacteurnucléaire #énergie #énergienucléaire #smr #électricité

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Un Toulousain a créé des data centers « de poche » pour particuliers, TPE et PME

J'ai l'impression qu'ils viennent de réinventer l'autohébergement / yunohost sur RasperryPi avec juste un peu de maintenance à distance plus mais un espace de stockage rikiki...

#ormeliawebindustrie #waouwbox #centrededonnées #stockageinformatique #cloud #autohébergement #tpe #pme #toulouse

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Vaccin grippe et Covid-19 : les faire le même jour pourrait augmenter le risque d’AVC

#santé #vaccin #vaccination #covid19 #grippe #avc

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Le chanvre, cette plante qui coche toute les cases de la transition écologique

#écologie #environnement #agriculture #chanvre #plante #france

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Une enquête antitrust bientôt ouverte par la Commission européenne contre Microsoft Teams

#enquête #antitrust #unioneuropéenne #commissioneuropéenne #microsoft #microsoftteams #concurrencedéloyale #monopole #pratiqueanticoncurrentielle

Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #antitrust, #blues, #clapton, #drazenpetrovic, and #fenderstratocaster.

Warner-Discovery Approved as Competition for Eyeballs Becomes Even More Fierce - Disruptive Competition Project ⚓ https://www.project-disco.org/competition/022522-warner-discovery-approved-as-competition-for-eyeballs-becomes-even-more-fierce/ ䷉ #projectdisco #antitrust #consolidation #brainwash

● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ The GOP Knows That The Dem's #Antitrust Efforts Have A Content Moderation Trojan Horse; Why Don't The Dems? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220221/00070948511/gop-knows-that-dems-antitrust-efforts-have-content-moderation-trojan-horse-why-dont-dems.shtml

● NEWS ● #IndiaTimes #Monopolies ☞ #Apple prefers fines to obeying #antitrust order, says #Vestager https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/apple-prefers-fines-to-obeying-antitrust-order-says-vestager/89787999

Florian Müller: EPICSSON: #Apple makes public interest statement in #Ericsson #patent case that supports Epic's #antitrust market definition ⚓ http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/02/epicsson-apple-makes-public-interest.html ䷉ #fosspatents

#Facebook stock plummets: What it means for #antitrust https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/meta-stock-price

How to design an anti-monopoly interoperability system

"A historical accident made Massachusetts a lab for studying how tech can serve monopolies, and the moves, countermoves and counter-countermoves show how businesses, tinkerers, governments and the public can liberate themselves from seemingly all-powerful monopolists."

How to design an anti-monopoly interoperability system
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/05/time-for-some-game-theory/#massholes

#monopoly #monopolies #tech #technology #computers #software #internet #BigTech #GAFAM #Google #Apple #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta #AntiMonopoly #AntiTrust #interoperability #privacy #competition #policy #law #RightToRepair #DRM #DigitalRestrictionsmanagement #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #standards #protocols #OpenStandards #OpenFormats #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA

● NEWS ● #Techdirt #Antitrust ☞ Can We At Least Make Sure Antitrust Isn't Deliberately Designed To Make Everyone Worse Off? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220130/22121148392/can-we-least-make-sure-antitrust-isnt-deliberately-designed-to-make-everyone-worse-off.shtml

Florian Müller: The 'Dean of American Antitrust Law' signs amicus brief backing Epic Games against Apple, as do 37 other profs: Ninth Circuit appeal ⚓ http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/01/the-dean-of-american-antitrust-law.html ䷉ #fosspatents #apple #antitrust

#FTC Highlights SEP #Antitrust Abuses https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2022/1/27/ftc-highlights-sep-antitrust-abuses #patent #monopoly #monopolies http://techrights.org/2018/01/01/tcl-v-ericsson/

● NEWS ● #TheHill #Monopolies ☞ #EU court sides with #Intel in appeal of $1.2B #antitrust fine https://thehill.com/policy/technology/591512-eu-court-sides-with-intel-in-appeal-of-12b-antitrust-fine http://techrights.org/wiki/Intel_leaks