The multi-pronged attempt by stateAttorneysGeneral, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to find Google and Facebook liable for violating antitrust law may result in breaking up these giant companies. But in order for any of this to cause lasting change, we need to look to the not-so-recent past.
In the world of antitrust, the calls to “break up” Big Tech companies translate to the fairly standard remedy of “structural separation,” where companies are barred from selling services and competing with the buyers of those services (for example, rail companies have been forced to stop selling freight services that compete with their own customers). It has been done before as part of the fight against communication monopolies. However, history shows us that the real work is not just breaking up companies, but following through
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MNJ Outperforms VAR Market for 4th Year, Expands Executive Team
Enters 20th Year in Business with New Digital Transformation Division & Aggressive Growth Plans
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BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MNJ Technologies, a midmarket-focused IT solutions and services provider, logged its fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth in 2020 as it continued to realize the benefits of pivoting to solution selling and strategically expanding its product and services portfolio. The company s performance again outpaced the channel and prompted an expansion of the MNJ executive team as well as a series of new initiatives to scale the business as the firm enters its 20
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