The Travel Winners of a Big Tech Crackdown and 8 Other Digital Trends This Week
Isaac Carey
June 8th, 2019 at 1:30 PM EDT
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This week in digital news, Google, Facebook, and Amazon may be facing tough antitrust enforcement from U.S. regulators, making life easier for some travel companies. Plus, TripAdvisor responds to a petition started by a sexual assault survivor, and General Atlantic invests in a tech startup known for selling cheap air tickets.
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Here Are Travel’s Big Winners in an Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech: Some are too scared to say so publicly, but much of the travel industry would welcome a diminution of Google’s vast market power. If a U.S. regulatory probe gets going against Big Tech, it is a very open question how far-reaching a remedy might be in the offing.
TripAdvisor Pressured Into Making Additional Reforms to Support Sexual Assault Victims: If you think protest is futile, then you’re wrong. Petitioners didn’t think TripAdvisor went far enough to promote traveler safety, and they got the
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