Hacker News with Generative AI: Monopolies

Microsoft May Have Created an Illegal Monopoly (propublica.org)
In the summer of 2021, President Joe Biden summoned the CEOs of the nation’s biggest tech companies to the White House.

Microsoft, Monopolies, Antitrust, Tech Industry, Regulation

24 points by tysone 6 days ago | 6 comments

Monopolies Are Why We Are Restarting Three Mile Island (thebignewsletter.com)
The most significant nuclear disaster in U.S. history took place in 1979, when Unit Two at the Three Mile Island nuclear power near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown.

Nuclear Power, Energy, History, Monopolies

8 points by doener 22 days ago | 4 comments

An Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices (theguardian.com)
In the nation’s most affordable metro area, getting hurt or sick is expensive

Healthcare, Economics, Indiana, Monopolies, Healthcare Costs

17 points by mindracer 35 days ago | 0 comments

Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (pluralistic.net)
Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you are required to use it, and for every hour a doctor spends with a patient, they have to spend two hours doing clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR.

Healthcare, Technology, Monopolies, Business

10 points by Tomte 50 days ago | 0 comments

Google is a very strange monopolist (wsj.com)

Google, Monopolies, Business

34 points by Bostonian 102 days ago | 24 comments

Google's real monopoly is on the user data (propellernet.co.uk)

Google, Data Privacy, Monopolies

49 points by illdave 106 days ago | 36 comments

Monetization and Monopolies: How the Internet You Loved Died (radicalcontributions.substack.com)

Monetization, Monopolies, Internet, Technology, Business

53 points by jfil 114 days ago | 49 comments

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers, small businesses (prospect.org)

Monopolies, Economics, Grocery Industry, Business, Consumer Protection

103 points by cainxinth 157 days ago | 99 comments

Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us (thebignewsletter.com)

Economics, Monopolies, Business, Inequality

455 points by passwordoops 165 days ago | 436 comments