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Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly

Published: 24 May 2023 Publication History

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How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.

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  • (2024)Competition and Monopoly: Exploring Digital Economy from Ecological PerspectiveJournal of the Knowledge Economy10.1007/s13132-024-02445-3Online publication date: 26-Nov-2024

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 66, Issue 6
June 2023
109 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3599937
  • Editor:
  • James Larus
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Published: 24 May 2023
Published in CACM Volume 66, Issue 6

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  • (2024)Competition and Monopoly: Exploring Digital Economy from Ecological PerspectiveJournal of the Knowledge Economy10.1007/s13132-024-02445-3Online publication date: 26-Nov-2024

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