Publications
The Open Markets Institute Europe welcomes the preliminary decision by the European Commission to designate Amazon and Microsoft as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how Google’s proprietary AI chips will do little to dent Nvidia’s monopoly over the industry. We also released a new playbook to help state policymakers stop the encroachment of private equity into child care..
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at Amazon’s recent lawsuit that aims to keep Perplexity’s AI agents from “intruding” on Amazon’s website, in a case that could help determine the future of the emerging AI agent market.
Read MoreEurope director Max von Thun briefed in a testimony the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee on Europe’s deep dependence on U.S. cloud giants, urging lawmakers to use existing regulatory tools to open the market and ensure Europe can build sovereign, resilient cloud and AI infrastructure.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya expresses concern on Amazon’s new ad tech service strengthens its market control, potentially threatening retailer independence and raising concerns about data and margin manipulation.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at efforts by Big Tech and the Trump Administration to disrupt European democracy, and explore Amazon’s latest move to consolidate control over online retail and advertising.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at Amazon’s failure to evade any of the three antitrust lawsuits that target its monopoly manipulation of prices across the internet.
Read MoreOpen Markets reacts to an American Booksellers Association (ABA) motion for the Federal Trade Commission to include Amazon’s monopolistic actions to control the books market in its wider antitrust case against Amazon.
Read MoreSenior Reporter Karina Montoya shines a light on the destructive path Bezos and Amazon leave in their tracks by stealing ideas, squelching competition, and cheating on its taxes.
Read MoreIn this issue, we broaden the conversation past TikTok to the myriad ways tech platforms and their data-collection practices harm Americans.
Read MoreIn this issue, we sound the alarm on Amazon’s rapidly growing ad business, which hit record revenues last year and should be cause for concern for U.S. antitrust enforcers.
Read MoreOpen Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement regarding Amazon’s announcement it will no longer seek to acquire home robotics firm, iRobot.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock co-published a powerful piece emphasizing that even the biggest publishers are no match for Amazon’s death grip on the book market.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement in reaction to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcing its long-awaited suit against Amazon’s monopoly power and abuse.
Read MoreOpen Markets’ years of actions and scholarship on Amazon’s monopoly power.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun puts out a statement welcoming the EC on its investigation into Amazon/iRobot.
Read MoreSenior reporter Karina Montoya explains why retail media networks are the next big threat by monopolists for the future of privacy and journalism.
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