Last week I participated in a “parliamentary” debate, sponsored by TechFreedom, on the Federal Trade Commission’s anticipated lawsuit against Google for monopolization. The dialog is interesting, if I say so myself!!
The core proposition in any attack on Google for unlawful monopolization, because the necessary premise is that Google’s dominant share — estimated at from 65 to 80% — of Web searches is the foundation of its alleged monopoly. But here the antitrust analysis begins to break down.
Folks in the tech industry have for the most part been conspicuously silent, at least publicly, about the Federal Trade Commission’s lengthy investigation of and apparent intention — perhaps as soon as year end — to file an antitrust case against Google for monopolization.
So much media attention was paid to the spectacular collapse of U.S. Senate deliberations on a cybersecurity bill in August — and the Obama Administration’s controversial move to fashion an Executive Order on the subject — that few if anyone focused on the biggest change affecting the data protection landscape.
The Wall Street Journal reinforces my earlier posts about the threat to innovation posed by premature government intervention into the technology marketplace.
The European Union has ordered Google to make “sweeping changes” to its business model by extending restrictions being demanded for Web search into the mobile realm. That’s wrong because mobile is fundamentally different for 5 profoundly important reasons.
With the Square-Starbucks joint venture, we are now on the verge of an inflection point for commercial payments. How many more years or decades before currency itself becomes extinct?
The ambiguities inherent in the often-amended Computer Fraud & Abuse Act are growing as aggressive litigants vie for competing interpretations.
People have been talking, and pontificating, about a coming “Internet of Things” since 1999. Now the European Union wants to regulate the IoT even before it is fully gestated and born.
For decades Penn State football fans claimed their program was different, better and purer than others-a model for all college sports. Not anymore.
