In a joint statement, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House says they intend to "fight this lawsuit vigorously."
“This is a pro-consumer, pro-author, and pro-book seller transaction, which will allow increased investment in the publishing programs of both S&S and PRH. /1
"The transaction will bring PRH’s superior order fulfillment services to S&S’s titles, benefiting consumers by making it easier to discover new titles and less likely that books will be out of stock, particularly at local retailers. /2
. @USDA's competition czar Andy Green says cybersecurity breaches, climate change and depletion of water resources, labor shortages and other problems are all magnified by the concentration in agriculture marketplace.
"The 40-experiment of lack of antitrust [enforcement] and market deregulation has come home to roost. Much like the 2008 financial crisis didn’t happen overnight, these problems were years in the making."
Green says the Biden/Harris USDA is working to reinvigorate the Packers & Stockyards Act and its protections against predatory practices in wholesale and retail meat markets.
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Today’s the day! Senate Judiciary expected to vote on Jonathan Kanter nomination for @JusticeATR, the second to last step before his confirmation.
Now on to Kanter!
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) says while he appreciates Kanter's focus on Big Tech, the antitrust division is broader than that and he is concerned about Kanter's criticism of the consumer welfare standard.
First key stat unsealed: "Google’s exchange processes about 11 billion online ad spaces each day."
"Google owns the largest buy-side and sell-side brokers. As one senior Google employee admitted, '[t]he analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE.'"
In her briefing with reporters, EU VP Margrethe Vestager declines to comment on whether she will meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook, who also happens to be in New York today.
But Vestager said they are watching what Apple does to respond to the Epic decision. "We are not bound by the judgment in the Epic case because it’s not our jurisdiction but we will follow with great interest [Apple's] response to the judgment."
"It will be interesting for us to see how they implement this. It is very early days and we have no idea how it will be implemented. [The Epic decision] it has no impact on our casework.