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Big Tech is snapping up competition

By Nithin Sasikumar in BFO #375, 22 Sep, 21

Startups are getting a lot of attention. Both from venture capitalists and other tech companies.

What will this all lead to? The dreaded M word—monopolies. 

Remember the email exchange that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg had with his CFO in 2012?  It went (more or less) like this:

Instagram was a billion dollar acquisition, so it had to be reported to the US regulators like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).