Microsoft has "attempted to monopolize the Web browser market and there is a "dangerous probability that Microsoft will attain monopoly power" in that market.
The court is nonetheless compelled to express its further conclusion that the predatory course of conduct Microsoft has pursued since June of 1995 has revived the dangerous probability that Microsoft will attain monopoly power in a second market.
No, the only real reason to adopt coercive curation is to attain a monopoly over a platform – to be able to shut out competitors, extract high rents on publishers whose materials are sold in your store, and sell a pipe dream of safety and beauty that you can't deliver, at the cost of homely, handmade, personal media that define us and fill us with delight.
Robertson Stephens believes that "with each quarter, BEA is firmly establishing itself as the leading provider of the Web platform for building and running e-business applications, [and is attaining] monopoly-like market share" in the process.
When a firm attains a monopoly position with high profitability, lots of people will surely devise ingenious ways to get a piece of the action.
Specifically, a firm violates Section 2 if it attains or preserves monopoly power through anticompetitive acts.
Through this body, western powers are resorting to the use of military power to win back the leverage once attained through financial monopoly.
The main argument against contracting with private providers was that there would be a danger that big multinational investment companies would come and attain a local monopoly in service delivery.
In order to attain and protect their monopoly, the guilds acquired a political voice and in some locations achieved the right to elect a number of their own members to the town council.
The head of Gazprom reiterated Wednesday that all ownership restrictions on company shares will be lifted once the state attains a controlling stake, but was vague on how the natural gas monopoly planned to spend the multibillion-dollar windfall from the complex transaction.
