Artikel

Big Tech Acquisitions — Towards Empirical Evidence

Big Tech, commonly associated with the firms Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM), makes up the most valuable companies worldwide in 2020. In the ten years leading up to 2020, these five companies alone acquired more than 400 firms, predominantly in the technological sector.1 However, most of these transactions were not scrutinised by competition authorities as they did not reach the traditional turnover thresholds, whereas those reviewed were not blocked following current merger control procedures. Prominent examples include the Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Facebook/WhatsApp, and Microsoft/GitHub mergers. [...]

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of European Competition Law & Practice ; ISSN: 2041-7772 ; Volume: 12 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 6 ; Pages: 471-478 ; Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

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Recht

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Affeldt, Pauline
Kesler, Reinhold
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Oxford University Press (OUP)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Oxford
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1093/jeclap/lpab025
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Affeldt, Pauline
  • Kesler, Reinhold
  • Oxford University Press (OUP)
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2021

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