Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru
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Hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case running the app store. They feel that antitrust law has not kept up with what the Digital Economy looks like. Senator Elizabe
And so the House Judiciary Committee just wrapping up this hearing on u. S. Citizenship and immigration services. A house judiciary subcommittee will be moving into this same room for a hearing with the ceos from amazon, apple, google and facebook. Theyll be discussing antitrust law and Online Platform market power. The Company Heads expected to appear remotely. Again this hearing being held in the same room as the previous hearing we just showed you. So there will be a little bit of a break as they take time to clean the room. The hearing expected to begin shortly. As for the tech ceos, this will be amazon Ceo Jeff Bezos first appearance ever before congress. Well be watching the room before if gets underway here on cspan3. Once again we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as we await the start of a house subcommittee hearing with the ceos of amazon, apple, facebook and google. Theyre talk about unfair competition and market dominance. They are expected to appear remotely. It was
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