Heard on the Street: Calls to break up technology giants like Google wrongly assume that scale and influence are permanent in the tech industry
Big Tech’s dominance these days certainly shouldn’t be taken for granted. Nor should its permanence.
Calls to break up or otherwise curb the growing scale of today’s technology giants have been increasing recently. The Federal Trade Commission said last week that it is creating a new task force to “closely examine technology markets” for antitrust violations, possibly even seeking to unwind past merger deals it deems in conflict with that ideal.
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