Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history

TechCrunch, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

This is why Microsoft cuddled up to Cyanogen, the startup trying to take Android 'away from' Google

Uk.businessinsider.com, here. 

The Forward - Looking Nature of Merger Analysis

D. Feinstein, here.

Tech Startups

The Economist, Special Report, here.

Judge Rules in Favor of DOJ Finding Bazaarvoice / PowerReviews Merger Anticompetitive

McDermott Will & Emery, here.

Identifying a Maverick: When Antitrust Law Should Protect a Low Cost Competitor

T. Owings, here.

Maverick: Making Sense of a Conjecture of Antitrust Policy in the Lab

C. Engel, A. Ockenfels, here.