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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

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Monopoly

IMAGE: A large, recognizable, stylized Google “G” symbol, appearing cracked and partially crumbling, symbolizing vulnerability and decline, with logos of some AI chatbots and a judge’s gavel

IMAGE: A large, recognizable, stylized Google “G” symbol, appearing cracked and partially crumbling, symbolizing vulnerability and decline, with logos of some AI chatbots and a judge’s gavel

Google’s search empire is crumbling, and that’s not a bad thing

Surprise, surprise, Google’s digital monopoly was the plan all along

IMAGE: Mark Zuckerberg with a top hat and a white mustache looking like the well-known figurine in the Monopoly board game

IMAGE: Mark Zuckerberg with a top hat and a white mustache looking like the well-known figurine in the Monopoly board game

If it looks, behaves, buys and copies like a monopoly, it’s because Meta is a monopoly

IMAGE: A depiction of the so-called “robber barons”, by Joseph Keppler (1889) for Puck magazine, showing ten fat business people with top hats overlooking and dominating the US Senate

IMAGE: A depiction of the so-called “robber barons”, by Joseph Keppler (1889) for Puck magazine, showing ten fat business people with top hats overlooking and dominating the US Senate

Under Trump, the United States is about to enter another Gilded Age

IMAGE: Two ads for Amazon Basics batteries on top of a search in Amazon Spain

IMAGE: Two ads for Amazon Basics batteries on top of a search in Amazon Spain

Is Amazon any different to the supermarket chains that sell their own brand products?

Google and the nature of the beast

As the discussion continues about where the data used to train generative algorithms should come…

IMAGE: An image of a big robot labelled as Google and controlling the whole internet with an iron chain

IMAGE: An image of a big robot labelled as Google and controlling the whole internet with an iron chain

Google is a monopoly, so what happens now?

A US federal court has ruled that Google acted illegally to maintain its monopoly on…

Looks like Apple just outsmarted the EU

Apple may have made the changes to its business model required by new EU regulations, but…

IMAGE: A drawing of an entrepreneur with a ladder leaning on a lightbulb and a pile of money beside it

IMAGE: A drawing of an entrepreneur with a ladder leaning on a lightbulb and a pile of money beside it

Adobe and Figma call it off: is this the end of the billion-dollar startup myth?

IMAGE: Google’s G with a Devil’s tail, horns and a trident

IMAGE: Google’s G with a Devil’s tail, horns and a trident

Who could ever trust the results of a Google search again?