Is a major big tech breakup looming?

Silicon Valley's biggest, most powerful companies might be facing big changes

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The year 2020 is poised to become "the year of the great antitrust reawakening," said Joe Nocera at Bloomberg Business­week. The last time antitrust was a dominant theme during a presidential election year was 1912. For the first time in decades, "a genuine rethinking of the way antitrust laws are enforced appears to be taking place," and the focus is squarely on the big four companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google. Cutting their power is a big part of the Democratic agenda. But Republicans, too, come with a long list of complaints. And then there's President Trump, whose frequent "potshots" at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — who also owns the loathed-by-Trump Washington Post — raise the specter of a president "weaponizing antitrust for his own political purposes."

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