As the internet giant stored the world’s information,it created an office culture that tried to minimise its legal footprint,telling employees to destroy messages and copy in the lawyers as often as possible.
The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.
It’s not just chief executives. Almost half of Australian workers have signed contracts that restrict their ability to move jobs. New research shows the drag on the economy.
It’s not just supermarkets that are likely to be pushing prices higher. Some of us are getting squeezed from more angles than one.
The telco has joined the ignominious list of companies doing the wrong thing in their treatment of Indigenous Australians.
The tech giant could be broken up if the US Department of Justice has its way - but it could take years to get to that point.
The effort is the most significant move to rein in a major tech company over illegal monopolisation since Washington unsuccessfully sought to break up Microsoft two decades ago.
The biggest change to the nation’s merger laws will target the supermarket sector with any takeover plan likely to face the ire of the competition regulator.
A suggestion to put a lid on the number of cafes in the country is unlikely to keep costs low,amid the soaring prices of arabica beans.
In one of its last acts before the October election,the government will launch consultation on ideas to “drive down” grocery prices with planning changes.
Passengers forced to wait for non-existent flights or told their plane is not arriving have been promised their own charter of rights under a government plan.