Small Business Fight Against Big Tech Innovation and Dominance
Small business is looking at ways to be able to compete with big tech innovation and dominance. While Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook all started as tiny operations in garages and dorm rooms, it’s hard to imagine any of them being displaced by new startups today. Big Tech not only plays an enormous role in […]
Big Tech Campaign Against Antitrust Laws
Big Tech companies have been aggressively embarking on a lobbying campaign to oppose antitrust laws proposed from Congress. They argue that implementing the antitrust laws would result in fewer choices for consumers and higher prices for products. In addition, Big Tech claims that antitrust reform will harm U.S. national security. According to a report from […]
Big Tech’s Battle Against Proposed Antitrust Legislation
Two bills recently introduced are at the center of Big Tech’s battle against the proposed antitrust legislation. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and the Open App Markets Act have resulted in the tech industry spending millions in expensive lobbying and advertising campaigns. Big Tech leaned on many lobbyists, including ones with professional […]
Big Tech and the AICOA Act for Antitrust Reform
The AICOA Act has been introduced for Big Tech antitrust reform. Over the course of the last two decades, the Big Tech companies have implemented policies and infrastructure designs allowing them to significantly expand their influence. Big Tech’s growth was facilitated by a lenient and hands-off enforcement of antitrust laws, along with a US tech […]
The Battle Against Big Tech Giants’ Dominance
Two bills are at the center of a battle against Big Tech giants’ dominance. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) resulted in an all-out blitz from the tech industry, which has spent millions into expensive lobbying and advertising campaigns to stifle the legislation. The sweeping antitrust […]
AICOA Targets Big Tech to Level Digital Playing Field
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) “prohibits certain large online platforms from engaging in specific acts. This includes giving preference to their own products on the platform, unfairly limiting the availability on the platform of competing products from another business or discriminating in the application or enforcement of the platform’s terms of service […]
Examining the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act would prohibit dominant tech platforms from what its sponsors believe amounts to unfairly ranking their services above those of rivals. The legislation would prohibit dominant tech platforms like Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook) and Google from giving preferential treatment to their own services in marketplaces they operate. Many complaints […]
AICOA to Promote Competition in the Digital Marketplace
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is a bill proposed to promote competition in the digital marketplace by addressing antitrust concerns related to major technology companies. The goal of AICOA is to prevent monopolies by prohibiting dominant platforms from abusing their gatekeeping power, favoring their own products, and disadvantaging competitors. AICOA proposes that […]
AICOA Gains Support from Commerce Department
Secretary Gina Raimondo said the Commerce Department supports a proposal aiming to block Big Tech giants from giving preferential treatment to their own products and services. This adds to the Biden administration’s support behind the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). This follows a letter the Department of Justice (DOJ) presented in support of […]
AICOA Aims to Promote Competition in Digital Marketplace
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is a bill proposed to promote competition in the digital marketplace by addressing antitrust concerns related to major technology companies. The goal of AICOA is to prevent monopolies by prohibiting dominant platforms from abusing their gatekeeping power, favoring their own products, and disadvantaging competitors. AICOA proposes that […]
Big Tech Spent Millions to Block Bipartisan Antitrust Bills
Big Tech and their industry groups spent millions of dollars in a multiyear congressional effort to block key bipartisan antitrust bills targeting the nation’s four largest tech firms. Antitrust supporters pushed hard for major legislation to rein in the power of Big Tech before the close of this year. Several antitrust reform proposals to give […]
