Microsoft was so busy fighting government monopolization claims it ignored the Internet and Google came along.
The question for antitrust authorities will be whether Google engaged in anti-competitive practices to extend its monopolization into mobile.
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In other industries, monopolization of a market or blatant protectionism (in pharmaceuticals, for instance) has quashed competition and innovation.
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To defend a claim of monopolization, it is generally required to show that the alleged monopolist enjoys protection from competition through barriers to entry.
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This unwinding of crossholdings is a move towards increased corporate transparency (both were originally government-owned), and helps alleviate the monopolization of the Korea telecommunications industry.
Additionally, to defend a claim of monopolization, it is generally required to show that the alleged monopolist enjoys protection from competition through barriers to entry.
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Gurus and academics with hyperbolic declarations, widespread circulation of case studies with outlier results, excessive rhetoric, superficial implementations, and as I argued earlier, monopolization of technology.
The EU and Korea are both investigating Google, and in the U.S., both the DOJ and the FTC are competing to lead a U.S. anti-monopolization investigation of Google.
Anecdotally at least, the evidence suggests that in the smaller markets most susceptible to monopolization, where Clear Channel has its strongest presence, diversity has actually increased as ownership consolidated.
An anti-monopolization case threatened in the proposed Google-Yahoo agreement.
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