The court considering the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon scheduled an economics hearing for March 7, providing an opportunity for us to better understand the FTC’s economic thinking. A quick recap of our commentary on the case may help provide some context ahead of the hearing: [...]
For the past couple years, we’ve been sending up flares about the problems with the European Union’s (EU’s) onslaught of digital market regulation. We focused in particular on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), because of how thoroughly it restricts the curated online marketplace (COM) services small app companies leverage [...]
With major developments taking shape at a rapid pace in artificial intelligence (AI), including DeepSeek’s $6 million breakthrough, a new reality is dawning for tech markets. Experts and investors take away a variety of lessons, from the straightforward conclusion that more is now possible with less in AI—to demonstrably [...]
Late last year, we observed that the Department of Justice’s (DoJ’s) proposed remedies in its lawsuit targeting Google search went much further than necessary. We pointed out that if adopted by the Court, they would amount to a significant intervention into a number of markets that ACT | The [...]
Last month, the European Commission issued “preliminary findings” regarding Apple’s iOS operating system, publishing a set of sweeping proposed measures for Apple to fully comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The proposed measures primarily implement Article 6(7)’s interoperability mandate, applying the provision inflexibly to 11 iOS features, mandating [...]