Apple Magazine - USA (2019-06-14)

chief executives of the major companies to
appear before the panel. Not showing up, as
some CEOs have done in the past, is unlikely to
be tolerated.
“There could be something really useful” to
emerge as legislation, said Allen Grunes, who led
merger investigations at the Justice Department
as an antitrust attorney.
Lawmakers could address, for example, the
galloping acquisition of small companies by the
tech giants or craft an update of antitrust laws
to apply better to complex tech behemoths,
suggested Grunes, a co-founder and attorney at
the Konkurrenz Group in Washington.
“It’s not illegal to be a monopoly,” he said. “But
it’s wrong for someone at the top of the hill to
kick the people off who are trying to climb it.”