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Concerns that regulation could cement Facebook’s market position don’t account for the unique features of social media business models.
How Jeff Bezos is plotting to take over the world – and why Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce could be a threat to innovation.
Facebook has become a key part of the world’s infrastructure, not just another tech company. It’s time to start treating it that way.
When thinking about regulating them, it’s useful to know Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have some similarities. But generally they’re not competing with each other – or anyone else.
South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive.
Efforts to curb railroads’ monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
South Africa’s idea of radical economic transformation is missing a critical element.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2015 decision to allow a hazardous waste monopoly in B.C. gave life to long-dormant provisions in the Competition Act that make preventing monopolies more difficult.
South Africa’s Competition Commission may be wasting resources in undertaking market inquiries as they are expensive and yield little results.
Uber’s business model suggests something has to give – either its imperial ambitions or its presence in markets which hold it to account.
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.
South Africa’s 14 point plan to achieve economic recovery lacks detail and vision of how the country is going to get itself out the prevailing economic crisis.
Europe’s approach to antitrust enforcement picks up where the US left off in the 1980s, when the view that breaking up monopolies hurt innovation took hold.
Together, three asset managers now control shares in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States.
Unlike their counterparts in Europe, U.S. antitrust regulators and courts have tended to view ‘free’ products as outside their purview for enforcement.
The way governments have handled the compensation process for taxi drivers, as ride-sharing app Uber is legalised, is uneven.
Free Basics may be free to the user, but it’ll cost India’s economy in the long run.
South Africa’s tightening up of its competition law enables it to punish collusive conduct by firms, but there are major obstacles to implementing the changes.
Legal moves against Google are a major step, with implications that will stretch across the industry.
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
