Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google engaged in anticompetitive, monopoly-style tactics to evolve into four of the world’s most powerful corporate behemoths, according to congressional investigators, who called in a wide-ranging report for sweeping changes to federal laws so that government regulators can bring Silicon Valley back in check. The roughly 450-page report, capping a 15-month investigation by the House’s top antitrust committee, found the four tech giants relied on dubious, harmful means to solidify their dominance in search, smartphones, social networking and shopping — and in the process evaded the very federal regulators whose primary task it is to ensure that companies do not grow into such corporate titans.
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