In reaction to the European Commission’s Android decision, a chorus of people sounded the alarm, highlighting the choice, competition, and innovation Android has brought to the market and the negative impacts this decision will have on phone makers, developers, and consumers. It’s also important to remember the FTC conducted a multi-year investigation into these allegations, […]
The latest issue of The Economist features an article that blames America’s leading tech services for allegedly quashing tech start-ups. The piece misses the mark in five key ways: 1. Investment in the sector is at a 20-year high, driving 57 startups to unicorn status last year — but only one in Europe. A World […]
This week, National Review published an opinion piece that attempted to make a “conservative case” for government breaking up leading tech services. It’s important to note, however, that asking for heavy-handed government intervention is far from the conservative mainstream. There are an abundance of thinkers and experts on the right and also the left, who […]
On Monday, Pew released a new survey from January 2018 that finds 88 percent of online U.S. adults feel the internet has mostly been a good thing personally, while 70 percent find the internet has been a good thing for society. Most mentioned increased access to information thanks to the internet, while others mentioned the […]
Speaking in a personal capacity at CCIA’s luncheon panel discussion held during the ABA Antitrust Spring Meetings, Bruce Hoffman, Acting Director of the Bureau of Competition at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), argued current U.S. antitrust law is “the result of decades of experience in the United States with failed standards, such as protecting […]
A new poll from The Wall Street Journal and NBC finds Americans have “only a limited appetite for new government oversight” of leading tech services. Consistent with polls run in the past, WSJ/NBC find 51 percent of Americans said there was either too much or just the right amount of tech industry regulation right now. […]
Yesterday, Greg Ip published a piece in The Wall Street Journal outlining the impacts of public scrutiny on innovation and the industry. It can be “good, bad or downright ugly for technological progress,” he says, outlining the nuance between different types of backlash. After all, as he points out, not all tech can just be […]
Yesterday, in Harvard Business Review, former antitrust counsel for Microsoft Maurice Stucke argues for a new approach to antitrust enforcement regarding America’s leading tech services because they are allegedly “monopolizing” data. Stucke’s demand for a vague “big is bad” antitrust mentality won’t support innovation or lower prices. Moreover, he erred in five critical ways. 1. […]
Yesterday, in Harvard Business Review, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow David Wessel provided four “warning signs” to guide policy discussions on industry concentration trends. Concerns of economic concentration reflect real challenges in our economy, but the tech sector is bucking the trend: 1. Business dynamism: The tech sector is growing faster than GDP with new companies and […]
Speaking with Recode’s Kara Swisher this morning on leading tech services, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) argued the world is better off with them. When asked about growing tech companies, Sen. Schumer noted, “Yes, they’re big. But big can do good things as well as bad things. And you gotta separate the wheat from […]
Hostility to innovation and technology diminishes the incredible Internet-enabled opportunities that leading tech services provide: empowering consumers, driving prices down and increasing choice, and providing platforms to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. It has given us a golden era of entertainment, knowledge, and everything from fashion startups, to booming mom and pop stores, to the latest app.
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