What Monopoly game piece is being replaced by one in the shape of a cat?
These market share numbers make it painfully clear that the FTC made a big mistake in approving the Google-DoubleClick acquisition in 2007, because that transaction was what effectively tipped Google to a search advertising monopoly and what gave Google the extension bridge to ultimately dominate all online advertising.
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Instead our dumb government allowed Facebook to limit competition in Social Networking and what we get is MONOPOLY PRICING folks.
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Palm wants to bring its WebOS operating system to other U.S. carriers, which means Sprint has a limited monopoly on what makes the Pre special.
So, if the era of the IT monopoly is over what era has begun?
The solution, Richman says, is to transform what was formerly a state monopoly into a competitive market.
Over the past 10-15 years, we saw what could be considered a monopoly around office productivity software.
To me (d) is the biggest lost opportunity for Microsoft of all and perhaps is the object lesson in what nearly three decades of monopoly buys you.
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The first is when we have monopoly capitalism (what we would now call a monopsony, a word unknown in his time, a single purchaser of labour) and the second is when there is a reserve army of the unemployed.
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Since then, Mr. Wen has called for breaking what he has called the "monopoly" state-controlled banks' hold on lending and taken other steps toward shaking up China's financial system.
The decision on what finally makes it onto Anglesey Monopoly will be taken after a public vote and survey on the island, which starts on Thursday and will last a month.
And it really has been a rough and tumble campaign with both UKIP and Respect fielding powerful, experienced women candidates who have poured criticism on what they say is the unhealthy monopoly of Labour political power in the town.
He is prepared to meet these head-on as the price for removing what he sees as the dead hand of monopoly supply.
Dan Gillmor has a nice column outlining what Facebook would like to do: become a monopoly or standard utility.
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Whatever the industry, an increase in size and control creates the conditions for monopoly, which could do the opposite of what we want: suppress innovation and drive up costs over time.
Mr. Kumar sat down with Gaurav Raghuvanshi in Singapore to talk about the company's transformation from a government-owned monopoly to a global communications company, and what the partnership with F1 means for the future.
This data package, coupled with the intellectual property that enables appropriate time-delimited monopoly pricing to extract returns over time, is what creates the futures market for their currency.
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To be sure, some companies--notably cable giant TCI--have wavered in their commitment to Windows CE. (After originally going with Microsoft, TCI is exploring other options, including operating systems from Sun and Sony.) But Microsoft will likely succeed because it is doing what it has always done best--leveraging its desktop monopoly into other markets.
What alternatives are there to the present situation, of a Federal Reserve monopoly floating fiat currency?
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He argued that the proper approach was to use antitrust enforcement to combat the monopoly power of some unions, which in his opinion was what gave rise to closed shops.
Once the government achieved a monopoly, the price of its raw data went up--just what you'd expect from a monopolist.
The comment hate being hurled at Google is partly derived from general monopoly-busting sentiment, but there is also a stuck-in-the-past misunderstanding of what Google has become.
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