{"id":1359,"date":"2016-12-19T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T05:27:25","slug":"hidden-monopolies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Monopolies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids\" width=\"182\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/antique-monopoly-game-hdi0aids.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>The attempted merger of AT&amp;T and Time Warner has drawn a lot of attention lately. \u00a0So much that a Senate hearing\u00a0was held last week to investigate the possibility of the combined companies forming\u00a0a monopoly. \u00a0During the meeting of the\u00a0Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, Mark Cuban, internet entrepreneur, made the comment that people should not be concerned with the waning phone business but internet giants, Google and Facebook. \u00a0Jonathan Taplin, Op-Ed contributor for\u00a0the New York Times, investigates this further\u00a0in,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/13\/opinion\/forget-att-the-real-monopolies-are-google-and-facebook.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;_r=0\">Forget AT&amp;T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attempted merger of AT&amp;T and Time Warner has drawn a lot of attention lately. \u00a0So much that a Senate hearing\u00a0was held last week to investigate the possibility of the combined companies forming\u00a0a monopoly. \u00a0During the meeting of the\u00a0Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, Mark Cuban, internet entrepreneur, made the comment that people should not be concerned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hidden Monopolies?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[811,807,15,604,810,806,469,809,808],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-antitrust","tag-att","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-money-control","tag-monopolies","tag-new-york-times","tag-senate-hearing","tag-time-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}