Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan states that RealPage's software "essentially amounts to a cartel" by enabling landlords to coordinate rent increases, thereby reducing competition and harming tenants.
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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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Chief economist Brian Callaci notes that while some franchise owners may face challenges due to California's minimum wage increase for fast-food workers, the overall impact on the industry is expected to be minimal
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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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CJL director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch was included in this report emphasizing the necessity of fair compensation for human content creators whose work is utilized to train AI models.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley emphasizes in Common Dreams the need for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Kellanova arguing that this merger would significantly reduce competition in the snack and cereal bar market.
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Center for Journalism and Liberty director Dr. Courtney Radsch was quoted on the loss of news programming amid the growing trend in streaming networks.
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Open Markets Institute’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in The American Prospect in an article on private equity investors entering the college sports market.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gave an interview to PlayerFM’s podcast Money on the Left to discuss his upcoming book Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in an article in the New York Times on algorithmic price-fixing by companies like RealPage, which helps landlords collude to set rent.
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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’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’ executive director Barry Lynn was quoted in Politico urging President Biden to flaunt his solid track record on fighting corporate power during his reelection campaign.
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Open Markets Institute’s report, AI in the Public Interest: Confronting their Monopoly Threat, which was published last year, in an article on federal investigations into Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI for their monopolization of the AI space was cited in Valuetainment.
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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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CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch participated in a media innovation conference in Rio de Janeiro hosted by the Associação de Jornalismo Digital - Ajor
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