Month: January 2020

A Lesson for Today’s Tech Trustbusters The AOL-Time Warner merger was going to dominate the internet. Today both companies barely exist.   By Thomas W. Hazlett Jan. 9, 2020 7:01 pm ET It was the biggest corporate merger in history, and it stunned the markets. On Jan. 10, 2000, America Online, the world’s largest internet […]

The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.” THOMAS W. HAZLETT | FROM THE OCTOBER 2019 ISSUE Jeff Bezos “is worried about me,” grinned Donald Trump back in 2016 while discussing Amazon’s bald-headed billionaire. “He thinks I would go after him for antitrust, because he’s got […]