Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls for breakup of tech companies
09 March 2019 |
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing to break up the largest technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.
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