We take a look at the ecommerce giants plan. Of top story, shares alphabet, facebook, apple, and amazon tumbled at the start of the week after news broke these companies could be the target of antitrust probes. In googles case, they are the department of justice is mulling an antitrust probe and has restriction over a potential apple probe. They now reportedly have jurisdiction over a potential apple probe. Meanwhile, the ftc is looking at whether apple practices harm competition in the digital market. Google and facebook make up over half of digital ad revenue and their closest competitor amazon has 9 of the market. Amazon does not dominate the digital ad market, but does own up to half of the ecommerce market. We also learned a potential amazon probe fall under the ftc. The director of the enforcement policy and bloombergs Senior Editor for global tech join us for reaction. Brad what we have is a political reality, not get a legal one. The tech environment is big, complex, and intimi
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Hour. Also joining us, former apple evangelist, guy kawasaki. The headline on barrons, are unicorns killing the ipo market. 31 companies have gone public so far this year compared to 69 at this point last year. 115 in 2014. The article speculates that rising regulation along with an excessive amount of vc money as culprits for the slowdown. Mike, as a barrons alum, what do you think they are trying to tell us . I think they are trying to weigh in on what this means for the markets and just what kind of market environment were in. Not so much about that kind of corporate strategic decision by a private company whether we should come public or not, but as this piece points out, typically when you have had one of these droughts in ipos its been good for forward market returns because it means the market is not very frothy, not looking for the next hot thing. Im sure you can go to an opposite extreme and say its kind of an unhealthy market if nobody feels as if its worth going public. Its