antitrust

Google’s Digital Advertising: A Showcase of Challenge to the Sherman Act Section Two from Big Tech Data Aggregation

Jan. 22, 2024—By Maggie Ren Today, the currency we use to pay for the services of these tech companies is not money, but instead it is data. [1] Google, a technology giant, has leveraged its data aggregation capabilities and algorithms driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to become a dominant force in digital marketing.[2] Google provides products and...

Amazon’s Latest and Greatest Antitrust Lawsuit: A Big Tech Reckoning

Oct. 3, 2023—By Angela Karas This past Tuesday, September 26th, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and 17 state attorney generals filed suit against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.[1] Crucially, this suit marks one of the largest antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech in the twenty-first century.[2] The complaint...

Competition Upstream of Amazon

Jul. 28, 2023—Martin Edwards | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 691 (2023). The rise of large, market-concentrating technology firms like Amazon, Inc. is driving commentators, regulators, and politicians to rethink the law of antitrust. In particular, “New Antitrust” reformers propose that the narrow focus on consumer welfare has caused antitrust law to stop too short...