One on the role of data and prime fancy into competition. I recognize myself, i should state the obvious im, not bitter of the subcommittee, and chairs the subcommittee, the chair of the committee will be here in a few minutes. It has never been easier to share news and information that content and communicate with loved ones, all at a moments notice. Given the technological recognitions it, has added to the balance of power in our economy. Its important for us to understand how this affects americans, what is causing the asymmetries of power and whether these new and growing inequalities are compatible with our democratic values. The committees ongoing is a key part of this practice. Todays hearing, we will examine the role that data plays and maintaining any qualities of power, and how this affects competition. As previous hearings have shown, the growing share of Congress Communications is now controlled by a small number of companies. These platforms are innocent, largely intermedi
Test dr. Valletti, you mention the acquisitions and the history of acquisitions. As of 2018 facebook had made 67 unchallenged acquisitions. Amazon had made 97 unchallenged acquisitions. And google had made 214, mostly unchallenged acquisitions. And you proceeded over the ec, eu investigation of google, amazon, and facebook. Two questions. What kind of access do these questions have to consumers as a result of those acquisitions . Then you talked about the thresholds being one of the potential problems for why investigations arent opened. Do the thresholds of investigation need to change if we are to challenge some of these acquisitions . Thank you very much for the question, congresswoman. Do the thresholds have to change . Im very pragmatic. To the extent people have powers to look into it, fine by me. Im even in favor of changing very strategic platforms with such a big market power, i would wonder instead of asking the authorities to prove there is anticompetitive, then they could r
President trump warns he will smash the turkish economy. Hong kong calms down after a long and difficult weekend. Leadership in beijing should meet protesters. Get you across some breaking news out of south korea right now. This is the current account balance for the month of august, and it is coming in, contacting on the july figure. Billion. In july, it was 6. 9 billion. We have seen rather disappointing export numbers out of south korea, but however, the current account remains in surplus after the chart, dipping into deficit back in may last year. It is trending a little down. The trade war is weighing on career. The current account balance for the month of august, 5. 265 william dollars. Chari. 5. 265 billion dollars. Shery the Trump Administration put 28 chinese entities on a new trade blacklist. The s p 500 was down. 5 in the regular session. Major indices ended in the red and they were fluctuating between gains throughout the session but we had energy and Consumer Staples leavi
Please ensure you silence also phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and any copies of the documents you have should be submitted to the clerk items acted upon today will appear on the october 8th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Before we go to the first item, i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton and we can take that without objection. Please call the first item. Hearing to consider the premise to premise transfer of her tight 48 on sale general Public Liquor license doing businesses a night market to serve the public convenience and necessitate the city and county of San Francisco. This is requested as a Committee Report. Thank you. Our a. L. U. Is here. Good morning, supervisors. Before you, we have a report for night market. They have applied for a type 40 a license and this would allow them to sell on sale beer, wine, and spirits. They are considered a high crime area. It is also a high saturation area. Cen
The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 26th, 2019 regular meeting of the Public Safety Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Clerk is john carroll and i would like to think San Francisco government tv for bringing this meeting to be. Please ensure you silence also phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and any copies of the documents you have should be submitted to the clerk items acted upon today will appear on the october 8th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Before we go to the first item, i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton and we can take that without objection. Please call the first item. Hearing to consider the premise to premise transfer of her tight 48 on sale general Public Liquor license doing businesses a night market to serve the public convenience and necessitate the city and county of San Francisco. This is requested as a Committee Report. Thank you. Our a. L. U. Is h