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...But subordinating investment policy to tax minimisation is a choice, not a necessity....
...said this to the staff of the SEC and to Gensler, which is you think that Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, E-TRADE, they need to be told where to send their retail orders, like they don’t have choice...
...Brussels blocked the deal a year later over concerns it would limit consumer choice and hurt innovation. Illumina appealed to the EU court but it sided with the commission in 2022....
...“And [they are] emblematic of what the DMA is supposed to deliver when it comes to choice for consumers.”...
...With cyber attacks now a tool of choice for actors seeking to destabilise economies and democracies, the stakes are higher than ever....
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...It was good, though more a matter of necessity than choice, that the company withdrew financial guidance for 2024, given that the investigation of the Alaska Airlines “door escape” is ongoing....
...Greater user choice may sound fine in theory, they argue, but it will challenge fundamental aspects of how services work....
...Google began a pilot programme in November last year called user choice billing in partnership with Spotify, which gave users the choice between using Google Play’s billing system or paying Spotify directly...
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...But as Google and other tech platforms grew, the goal became keeping you in — by cutting exclusive deals with other companies such as Apple and Samsung to be their search provider of choice....
...If it is a natural monopoly, and consumers are given a choice screen and keep choosing Google, all the trial has done is save Google $20bn a year. Hovenkamp: It’s very possible....
...Cattle ranchers and farmers have thrown their support behind states’ cultivated meat bills....
...“The greatest player in the world wanted to make MLS his league of choice, a guy who could’ve played anywhere,” Courtemanche said....
...On Wednesday, Milton’s lawyers asked a judge for leniency, stating that he was “raised in the American West . . . more skilled with cattle and horses than with regulators and investors”....
...An executive order in 2021 called for a “revitalisation of merger oversight” to “ensure Americans have choices among financial institutions and to guard against excessive market power”....
...In his testimony, Nadella said Google’s default contracts render arguments that users have a choice in search “bogus”....
...“Android and Google Play provide more choice and openness than any other major mobile platform,” he wrote....
...Many funds already use algorithms to trawl through transcripts of earnings calls and company presentations to glean signals from executives’ choice of words — a field known as “Natural Language Processing...
...Hundreds of reporters congregated outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles this week to greet Shohei Ohtani and ask how the Japanese superstar made the choice to suit up in Dodger blue....
...It described the arrangement, known as user choice billing, as a pilot, but said it was operating in 35 countries....
...As regulators around the world try to get to grips with the lopsided competition in the cloud computing world, they face a difficult choice....
...Brussels chose to block the transaction a year later, saying it would stifle innovation and limit choice for consumers....
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