Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
by gress on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @11:02PM
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They are bad things if they empower an ever more powerful monopoly.
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Nitpick: Not all monopolies are bad (utilities, transportation, etc.)
The term you're thinking of is conglomerate, because Google has at least one competitor in every one of it's markets, which isn't a monopoly.
Nitpick: legally a monopoly doesn't require zero competitors.
> Legally
Only when getting fined for antitrust or monopolistic behavior, which doesn't mean it is a monopoly - only that a regulating body is trying to prevent it from eventually becoming one.
Definitively, mono-poly means one entity in the market.