When companies within the same industry work together to increase their mutual profits instead of exclusively competing with one another, it is known as an oligopoly. Oligopolies are observed ...

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Businesses don't operate in a bubble -- their sales and profitability are affected by the business environment in which they operate. Many factors affect this environment, from regulation and ...

Behind the scenes of the more obvious oligopolizations we see emerging in today's tech industry — the ones regarding data, computer processing power and consumer attention — is a related but subtler ...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. 1 Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of ...