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You are hereIntellectual PropertyGoogle's Acquired Businesses Becoming Monopolies = Market FailureSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2010-10-22 13:01Top Ten: The evidence is increasingly difficult to ignore that the FTC & DOJ, over the last two Administrations, repeatedly failed to enforce Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act, and have allowed Google's acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick, and AdMob to illegally "substantially... lessen competition" and "tend to create a monopoly."
I. Absentee Antitrust Enforcement & Market Failure Free markets depend on both the rule of law and the equal enforcement of the law to prevent illegal monopolization. 10 Questions for Google's Tax DodgeSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2010-10-21 17:38Top Ten: We learned today that Google has the lowest foreign tax rate of the top five U.S. tech companies, an eyebrow-raising 2.4%, and that Google "cut its taxes by $3.1b in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda," per an outstanding investigative expose by Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg. This exceptional tax dodging feat, while reportedly technically legal, nonetheless raises some important questions that no one has yet asked Google.
Google TV: Dumb Content vs. Content is KingSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2010-10-07 09:20Why are the Big Four networks Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS, not flocking to Google TV, the largest digital video distribution network in the the world -- by far? And why did Forrester's analyst characterize Google TV's programmer sign-ups to date as "underwhelming?" The core reason is a profound vision and business model clash between existing programmers/distributors and Google Inc. Why?
Google Schmidt: "China can be best understood as a large, well-run business"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2010-10-06 12:09In his latest display of no-self-awareness, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, in an interview with the Atlantic, said:
Is Google's CEO the only sentient being on the planet that isn't aware that China is organized around the principles of China's National Communist Party? "If China is best understood as a large, well-run business," why does Communist China censor and imprison their Chinese "customers" if they object too much to China's products and services?
My speech on Google/Yahoo-Japan deal in Tokyo todaySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2010-09-30 06:50I'm in Tokyo Japan and just got done giving the keynote speech to about 100 Japanese industry representatives at a forum on the negative impact on competition and innovation of the partnership between Yahoo-Japan and Google, which will control over 90% of the Japanese search advertising market.
I explained the three "Ds" of the deal: dependency, decline and disintermediation (see the full speech below.) There was a Google-friendly panel of two professors and a journalist that critiqued my speech and I was afforded full opportunity to rebut all their points. It is amazing to me that a deal that has such far-reaching negative effects on Japanese industry, Japan's economy, identity and culture, as this, was decided without any consultation or input from industry or other parts of Government affected by the deal. Googleopoly VI -- How Google Monopolizes Consumer Internet Media (41 page PowerPoint Presentation)Submitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2010-09-12 21:29The link is here to: "Googleopoly VI -- How Google is Monopolizing Consumer Internet Media and Threatening a Price Deflationary Spiral and Major Job Losses in a Trillion Dollar Sector" -- It is a 41 page PowerPoint presentation with 18 pages of pictorial analysis. Below is the Executive Summary: (The PDF link is here.)
Executive Summary Googleopoly VI – Seeing the Big Picture: How Google is Monopolizing Consumer Internet Media And Threatening a Price Deflationary Spiral & Major Job Losses in a $Trillion Sector By Scott Cleland* President of Precursor LLC, September 13, 2010 Must Read Thierer Op-ed: America's Chavez Fan ClubSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2010-07-13 18:12Anyone that cares about freedom generally, and freedom of the press in particular, must read PFF Adam Theirer's outstanding Big Government expose/op-ed putting the spotlight on neo-marxist "FreePress:" "How America's Hugo Chavez Fan Club Plans to 'Reform' the Media Marketplace."
Thanks Adam. Forewarned is forearmed.
Why Viacom Likely Wins Viacom-Google Copyright AppealSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2010-06-25 16:34Viacom is likely to ultimately prevail in its appeal of the lower Court decision in the seminal Viacom vs. Google-YouTube copyright infringement case.
Why is Viacom likely to prevail on appeal? Americans want online privacy -- per new Zogby pollSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2010-06-08 17:28American consumers clearly want online privacy, per a national poll conducted over the weekend by Zogby International, that was commissioned by Precursor LLC.
More specifically, this Zogby poll asked eight timely questions that are highly pertinent to: The Atlantic smooches Google in cover storySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2010-05-12 18:01Whatever the Atlantic's national correspondent Mr. James Fallows calls his Atlantic cover story: "Google: Inside the company's daring plan to save the news (and itself)," it can't be journalism. It was one of the most vacuous 12-page puff pieces I have ever read. Like Jeff Jarvis described: "It doesn’t break a single new nugget of news." It was the literary equivalent of a puppy jumping up incessantly to lick the face of the person in closest proximity. How ironic is it that a journalist, that made a point of telling the reader that he taught journalism for several years, wrote the functional equivalent of Google PR brochure extolling all the good Google has done for journalism/newspapers -- with no journalistic critical thinking or balance. It is hard to fathom that in twelve pages there were: Pages |