Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn responded to the Department of Justice’s landmark announcement, suing Apple for a wide range of unfair competition practices and its monopoly over smartphone markets and applications.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch & Senior Reporter Karina Montoya delve into the infrastructural role of cloud in watchdog journalism to illustrate how market concentration in cloud services can exacerbate existing harms by dominant digital platforms on news media sustainability. They argue that the design of policies seeking to redress potential harms to competition in cloud services should consider its effects in public interest journalism.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya recaps the vital points of Google’s upcoming Ad Tech Trial .
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement regarding the news that two of the U.S.’s largest credit card companies, Capitol One and Discover, seek to merge.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya analyzes how Google convinced the court to limit transparency and public access to information during the landmark trial.
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In this issue, we explore a novel approach by Danish publishers to claw back funds from tech giants who have monopolized their advertising revenues. We also introduce our report “AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat,” which shows how a handful of Big Tech companies have already monopolized the emerging AI space.
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In this issue, we explore new revelations about how Amazon’s internal ads business aims to deceive buyers and to hurt sellers on its marketplace. We also introduce our seminal report on how to save journalism from Google and Facebook’s destructive business models, which are designed to monopolize all advertising.
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In this issue, we explore the recently passed California Delete Act, aimed at curbing the rampant and invasive collection and sale of personal data by so-called data brokers. Open Markets also filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to put an end to a century-old baseball antitrust exemption.
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In this issue, we preview two other antitrust cases against Google, both focused on monopolistic practices related to its Play Store.
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In this issue, we look at our conference detailing Facebook’s attacks on the free press, featuring a keynote by Senator Klobuchar. And we explore California’s subsidized manufacture of insulin.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
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In this issue, we look at how the FCC’s new Democratic majority could act to rein in Big Tech, and at Musk’s misuse of Starlink.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci urge the DOJ and FTC to go further in limiting corporate mergers for the American economy’s benefit.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement to underline the deep concerns about the public’s lack of access to US v Google, a trial on the illegality of Google’s monopolization over online search and search advertising.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya provides insight on points to be aware of as the DOJ kicks off its first ever antitrust litigation against Google.
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The Open Markets Institute publishes this blog post ahead of opening arguments in US v Google, a case brought by the US Department of Justice to challenge Google’s monopoly control over online search.
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