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GAFA Market Power continues to Grow

Geoff Riley

20th September 2017

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This FT interview looks at the rising market power of the GAFA platform businesses - Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. The argument is made that many of these companies build their profits around data that we give them for free. Are they really the engines of innovation that their senior executives might want us to believe?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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