Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements set to take effect on September 4, and plans to rule on August 30
A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
Docs: Amazon plans to impose a new 2% fee per sale on merchants who ship products themselves, on top of the ~15% commission they already pay, from October 2023
The FTC proposes a rule banning non-compete clauses, saying the contracts harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship
the latest move in Lina Khan's ambitious reform agenda. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Imagine you hate your job. The pay is low. The benefits are crummy...
California's AG files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, focusing on the company allegedly penalizing sellers who list products at lower prices on other sites
inflating prices across the web isn't exactly customer-obsessed. https://twitter.com/... Stacy Mitchell / @stacyfmitchell : 8/8. Here's the filing itself. Lots of damning quotes an...
Filing: Amazon accuses the FTC of harassing its top executives, including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, as part of its investigation into Prime membership
Amazon allegedly unfairly complicates the process for customers who want to cancel Prime—is “harassment” per Amazon https://arstechnica.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : Amazon...
How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to win live sports streaming rights by persuading skeptical leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks
but not on your TV Tim Baysinger / Axios : Google makes NFL Sunday Ticket a three-way race Mike Florio / NBCSports.com : Report: Google has made a bid for Sunday Ticket Jose Montes...
How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to win live sports streaming rights by persuading skeptical leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks
but not on your TV Tim Baysinger / Axios : Google makes NFL Sunday Ticket a three-way race Mike Florio / NBCSports.com : Report: Google has made a bid for Sunday Ticket Jose Montes...
How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to win live sports streaming rights by persuading skeptical leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks
but not on your TV Tim Baysinger / Axios : Google makes NFL Sunday Ticket a three-way race Mike Florio / NBCSports.com : Report: Google has made a bid for Sunday Ticket Jose Montes...
Interviews with members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Meta's board, a departure that was years in the making
Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right Tweets: @daweiner , @lizzadwoskin , @sorayamcdonald , @jeffjarvis , @...
Sources: a bipartisan bill that would ban Big Tech companies from favoring their products faces resistance from some Senate Democrats worried about the midterms
How Lina Khan's FTC is using the concept of “monopsony”, a market where one buyer is pre-eminent, to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation
Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan has developed an innovative way to frame the issue. Whether she has the tools to see it through remains to be seen.
How “neo-conglomerates” like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta replaced and outgrew industrial conglomerates like GE, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson
it is like cutting an egg in half” Tweets: Darren Herman / @dherman76 : When I was in college, we studied GE pretty intensely. Today? https://www.wsj.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka ...
Biden signs an EO calling on regulators to enact reforms such as increasing scrutiny of tech mergers and focusing more on moves like “killer acquisitions”
- President Joe Biden signed a new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor and numerous other sectors.
Antitrust bills have issues, but Judiciary Committee passing them is nothing short of a revolution in American thinking on political economy and monopoly power
Twitch, where even niche artists can make thousands of dollars per month by cultivating fan tribes, is becoming increasingly attractive to musicians
and allows those connections to be efficiently monetized. https://www.nytimes.com/... @future_of_music : Ben's a great journalist and everyone should read everything he writes. But...
Uber and Lyft acknowledge prices are up and wait times are longer, citing a lack of drivers; research found prices rose 37% from March 2020 to March 2021
The companies say they are charging extra because they don't have enough drivers to match rebounding customer demand.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says Big Tech benefits massively from internet infrastructure and proposes that it should pay its fair share in maintaining it
Brendan Carr / Newsweek :