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Columbia law professor Tim Wu shares expertise from his time as a Senior Advisor with the Federal Trade Commission to explain how the agency approved Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram. Professor Wu proposes unwinding that merger in order to insert competition to help ‘check’ Facebook’s power.
October 15, 2018
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“Procurement” is the process by which governments choose to obtain and buy goods and services from the private sector.
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“It looks like the antitrust winter is over.” —Tim Wu
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This article analyzes the potential weaknesses of the European Union’s potential new right to data portability.
May 30, 2013
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