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Significance The move comes as regulators scrutinise the competition implications of large tech companies' ability to lock in customers by bundling their products, creating dependencies. The starkest example is the landmark antitrust suit brought by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in March, alleging Apple is abusing its dominance of the iPhone ecosystem. Impacts Landmark antitrust cases can absorb so much of senior management’s time that business performance suffers. Several senior antitrust lawyers have left the DoJ and FTC for private law firms, implying that big tech is preparing for a lengthy fight. New DoJ and FTC review rules give more weight to the risks of harm to labour markets from mergers. Pending FTC rule-making to ban most non-compete agreements could increase start-up competition for established tech firms.
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