Why did businesses consolidate into monopolies? Why isn't there any law to ban monopolies? Why does the US allow so many monopolies? Why do monopolies spend money on marketing? Why aren't power/electric companies considered monopolies? Why aren't utility companies run by the government instead ...
Monopolies (垄断者) that until recently have been free to take their customers for granted now fear what Michael Perry, a marketing professor, calls "the revengeful (报复的) consumer". When the government opened up competition with Bezaq, the phone company, its international branch lost 40% ...
However, the governmentstaunchly defendedits decision in court, arguing that the right to do business did not override the general public interest. It also claimed that the directions did not ask VPNs to surveil users, but only collect general security-related logs. The government also argued tha...
and so on. The tech community used to be made up of people who would riot at anti-consumer stuff like soldered memory and on-device app distribution monopolies. Remember when tech people rioted after Intel put user-retrievable serial numbers in Pentium 3 processors?...
Why do monopolies spend money on marketing? Why are international markets important for businesses? Why is a firm's corporate reputation important? (a) Why should marketers consider ethics? (b) Are these concerns vital, or unnecessary?
5. Live Nation has monopolies on concert promotion for both venues and artists. Twenty-two states additionally claim that Live Nation has violated their antitrust and monopoly laws. That’s a lot! Really, it comes down to Live Nation’s market power over ticketing, venues, and promotions....
Co-incidentally, education of a different sort was the original point of Monopoly, with the argument thatif Monopoly were fun then it wouldn’t be meaningful.The Landlord’s Gameby Elizabeth Magie was created in 1903 to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating lands in private mon...
Google has more leverage over publishers owing to its search monopolies across both Google Search, Google News, and YouTube. Microsoft bailed on Mixer before it could get going, and MSN's (Microsoft News) user base is minuscule compared to Google News. Google has a far bigger advertising...
Monopolies, as Louis Brandeis pointed out a century ago, and as Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, journalist Franklin Foer, and others have underscored more recently, simply accrue too much political and economic power to allow for the democratic process to find a balance in how...
The Activision acquisition didn't sit well with the Federal Trade Commission, the newly emboldened federal agency tasked with stopping monopolies from forming. Microsoft's promises to make key games such as "Call of Duty" available on more platforms haven't swayed the FTC. Commissioners claimed ...