In this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.
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Europe director Max von Thun acknowledges here that while Margrethe Vestager faced criticism for not fully curbing tech monopolies, she was for many years the only politician on the global stage trying to check the dominance of Big Tech.
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Europe director Max von Thun highlights Epic Games’ new iOS app store as a significant challenge to Apple’s market dominance, boosted by the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
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Europe director Max von Thun published an article on the collusive behavior by Big Tech firms that leads to poor product quality, such as Google’s AI hallucinations.
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The New York Times quoted a statement by Open Markets Institute’s Europe director Max von Thun on the global CrowdStrike outage, potentially the biggest in history.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun weighs in on today’s widespread IT outage and how it exposes the great risk in monopolistic corporations controlling our communications systems.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun’s recent article in ProMarket was cited in The Brookings Institute, which dismissed the notion of creating European champions.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun last week participated in an event hosted by Oxford University on the intersection of retail trends and competition policy, where he spoke on a panel on the relationship between the high street and Big Tech, and how we can level the playing field.
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Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun demands a new economic vision for the European Union by pursuing competition to create a robust political economy that can take back power from corporate behemoths.
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On Monday April 15th, The Open Markets institute and a coalition of organizations committed to challenging monopoly power in Europe brought together leading policymakers and thinkers for a half-day conference in Brussels.
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Open Markets Europe director Max Von Thun was interviewed on “The Tech Brief” podcast, where he discussed how Europe can better approach competition policy and directed listeners to a recently published manifesto, which outlined how the European Union can put antimonopoly at the heart of its policy agenda.
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The Open Markets Institute and several civil society partners active in the European Union have published “Rebalancing Europe: A New Economic Agenda for Tackling Monopoly Power,” a new manifesto for the next European Commission and Parliament that sets out how policymakers should more effectively address monopoly power and control in Europe.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on Europe’s failure to check monopolization of the emerging AI space by Big Tech monopolies, illustrated by the partnership between Microsoft and Paris-based Mistral AI.ok.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on Europe’s diverging views from the U.S. on the threat emanating from Chinese-owned TikTok.
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Open Markets and partner civil society organisations active in Europe urge the European Commission to address early concentration in the AI market.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted saying that Big Tech companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google use cosmetic changes to circumvent Europe’s Digital Markets Act.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted for speaking on a $2 billion fine the European Commission slapped on Apple for unfair practices within its app store.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on the multiyear partnership between Microsoft and European AI startup Mistral..
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was thoughts on the multiyear partnership between Microsoft and European AI startup Mistral were published.
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