Tech's new monopolies

The simultaneous decline of successful start-ups, attributed in some studies to the dominance of existing tech firms, has dampened innovation and job creation, the critics say

David McLaughlin

Published4 Oct 2017, 02:59 AM IST

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have monopoly-sized market shares, but being a monopoly isn’t illegal in the US and most other countries, as regulators long ago stopped equating big with bad. — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have monopoly-sized market shares, but being a monopoly isn't illegal in the US and most other countries, as regulators long ago stopped equating big with bad.(Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have monopoly-sized market shares, but being a monopoly isn't illegal in the US and most other countries, as regulators long ago stopped equating big with bad.)

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