May
07
Who Strikes Fear Into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s Antitrust Enforcer
ByCOPENHAGEN — At first blush, Margrethe Vestager’s decision to investigate Apple’s planned acquisition of the music-identification app Shazam seems fairly minor, at least by her standards. As Europe’s competition commissioner, Ms. Vestager is known for aggressively pursuing big cases against Silicon Valley giants, and the Shazam deal is a smallish one, by most estimates valued at far less than $1 billion.
But what interests Ms. Vestager about the transaction is not the amount of money at stake, but the amount of data. In a rapidly expanding information economy, she believes the control of data is a new regulatory frontier…
Who Strikes Fear Into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s Antitrust Enforcer
