Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) proposed a new bill on Monday aimed at blocking mergers and acquisitions for companies with market caps of over $100 billion. The bill introduced by Hawley, a frequent critic of Big Tech, is strikingly brief at just eight pages long. It would amend the […]
The new antitrust actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and several states aimed at breaking up Facebook are being hailed as important for the future of competition. In fact, a victory for the agency could shut off one of the most important incentives that encourage entrepreneurs to compete and innovate. If the FTC and the states […]
Antitrust is almost always a hot button issue, however 2020 has shown a red-letter year to its supervision of anti-competitive small business practices. It is reasonable, then, this year’s digital variant of Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech convention would comprise two of the major legal minds from antitrust legislation enforcement, who gave their ideas over the government’s […]