Remember when Microsoft appeared to be on track to dominate our waking hours at work (Windows, Office) and at play (Xbox, Internet Explorer, MSN)? Seems like a quaint memory now — though, in the long-standing tradition of refighting the last war, as recently as December the European competition authority was …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AdMob, Antitrust, DoubleClick, Facebook, FTC, Google, Microsoft | Category: Competition Policy |
 Leave a commentSo it’s official: Verizon and Google have (sort of) agreed on a way to break the deadlock on “net neutrality” – the highly charged question of when (if ever) Internet providers may differentiate the quality of service among users. For the first time, companies with very different interests have … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, Google, network neutrality, Verizon | Category: Internet |
Leave a commentIt’s never been much of a secret that commercial websites collect as much information about visitors as they dare, using it as a marketing tool themselves or selling it to others. But the depth and breadth of the effort, revealed last month by The Wall Street Journal, was … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Google, Microsoft, privacy, website tracking, Yahoo! | Category: Internet |
Leave a commentIf you bought any generation of iPhone in the U.S., a federal judge just decided you can now join a class action challenging the exclusive marketing agreement between Apple and AT&T. It’s just not evident why you would want to. It’s not at all clear you are … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Apple, AT&T, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, Nokia, Research in Motion | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
One commentJust before the tech bubble crashed in 2000 Microsoft had a market capitalization of $586 billion while one-time rival Apple’s cap languished at $17 billion. Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck — a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, Google, Microsoft | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a comment…the Wall Street Journal op-ed on high-speed Internet service, co-authored by the often-warring CEOs of Google and Verizon. Messrs. Schmidt and Seidenberg laud the FCC’s ambitious broadband plan – in particular, the focus on promoting innovative uses of the net in key areas like health care, the goal … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, Eric Schmidt, FCC, Google, Internet, Ivan Seidenberg, Manhattan Project, Verizon | Category: Internet |
Leave a commentAs if Google didn’t have enough trouble in Europe, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a second front against the company. The FTC’s concern – that Google’s proposed merger with AdMob would allow it to dominate in mobile phone advertising – has little to … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AdMob, dynamic competition, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Google, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentIt’s no surprise that Google is now under the competition authority’s microscope in Brussels. This, after all, is the company with a 90 percent share of the explosively growing Internet ad market in Europe. Indeed, back home, where it has “only” an 80 percent market share, the Justice … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: European Commission, Google, Microsoft, U.S. Department of Justice, Yahoo! | Category: Antitrust, Competition Policy |
Leave a commentGoogle has once again shaken up an IT market (this time the market for Internet service) with a plan for an experimental superfast fiber-optic network. The very best part of the announcement is the price tag to federal taxpayers: nada. Instead of lobbying Washington for a handout as an … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Google, open access, Spectrum | Category: Broadband, Internet, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentApologies to Tina Turner. But, yes, like the chair of the FCC (see our Jan. 12th post), we believe that discrimination does have a lot to do with the net neutrality debate. That agreement, though, is the beginning of the debate, not the end, because there is hardly a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Dennis Carlton, FCC, Gary Becker, Google, Hal Singer, Net Neutrality, Nicholas Economides, Robert Litan, telecommunications policy, Verizon | Category: Net Neutrality |
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