Personally, I’m very glad this deal panned out the way it did… we’re beyond time where blitz-scaling in healthy for an innovation eco-system. Hopefully we’ll start to think small and profitable again… nah, who the fuck am I kidding? With that said, I have a firm belief in the entrepreneurial ethos — figure out a…

When the tech platforms promised a future of “connection,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are hard to leave by design. They…

This week was the 250th anniversary of the most famous anti-monopoly protest in history, the Boston Tea Party. In a nice coincidence, this week also saw multiple important victories for antitrust enforcers and private litigants, including some ground-breaking legal precedents and a circuit court win. Let’s start with the squealing from the baddies. Big tech proponents got…

A really good list of the factors that made a difference between Apple and Google. Apple rules the iPhone’s App Store with an iron fist — sideloading outside it is not allowed. Google lets anyone install any app on an Android phone. But guess which one of these two companies has an illegal monopoly, according to…

It’s amazing to realize that we got into this monopoly quagmire because judges just literally refused to enforce the law. That’s what makes one part of the jury verdict against Google so exciting: the jury found that Google’s insistence that Play Store sellers use its payment processor was an act of illegal tying. Today, “tying”…

And finally, big tech is not above the law. This loss isn’t just the first antitrust failure for Google, it’s the first antitrust loss for any big tech firm. I hear a lot from skeptics that the fix is in, that the powerful will always win, that justice in our system is a mirage. But…

Matt Stoller breaks down the hidden lawyers behind major corporations.