-BusinessToday.in While fate of RIL's Future Retail acquisition remains uncertain after Amazon got an interim arbitration order against that transaction, consolidation in retail space has raised murmurs of growing Monopoly of the company in retail and some other sectors Urban Ladder is the latest company in the retail space to be acquired by Reliance Retail. This comes close on the heels of its big ticket acquisition of Future Retail. While the fate...
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Under the Scanner as Australian Senate to Probe Media Monopolies -Peoples Dispatch
-Newsclick.in/ Peoples Dispatch The senate inquiry announcement comes days after a petition by ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd to investigate Murdoch’s media Monopoly in Australia garnered half a million signatures On Wednesday, November 11, the Australian Senate voted in favor of an inquiry into media monopolies in the country with the focus certain to be on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The move to hold an inquiry was proposed by Green Party senator Sarah...
More »Tech Platforms Feel the Heat -CP Chandrasekhar
-NetworkIdeas.org In a move that was expected, the US Justice Department has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against internet search giant Google, alleging that it resorts to anti-competitive practices to ensure its dominance in the search engine space and, through that, over the related online advertising revenues. As a leading example the case cites the successful effort to exclude the competition through a deal, in place since 2005, in which Google pays...
More »Other side of APMC repeal: Bihar farmers want mandis, ‘like Punjab’ -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Farmers in poll-bound Bihar are seeking mandis 'like in Punjab and Haryana' Begusarai, Khagaria: In 2006, Nitish Kumar’s government showed the way by repealing Bihar’s Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act and allowing crops to be freely traded outside the state’s regulated mandis. But 14 years on – when the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has enacted a law dismantling the Monopoly of APMC mandis all over India and...
More »Google Under Fire in US for Predatory Monopoly Practices -Prabir Purkayastha
-Newsclick.in Tech monopolies are increasingly being acknowledged as a danger to people, other companies and even to democracy. The regulatory worm seems to be turning in many countries, even in the US where it had gone into hibernation. The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google-Alphabet (Alphabet is Google's parent company) for a range of anti-competitive practices using its Monopoly power in the search market. This is the only...
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