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How Tech Regulators Can Move Fast and Fix Things
A U.K. report flags a practice that officials in many nations can use to contain the damage from the fast spread of Big Tech.
Things could have gone very differently for Alphabet in Europe.
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In the bundle of measures proposed in a new U.K. government investigation into Big Tech’s dominance, one in particular should cause sleepless nights in Silicon Valley.
The study, carried out by Harvard University economist and former Barack Obama advisor Jason Furman, makes 20 recommendations intended to improve digital competition against the likes of Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc.