Your smartphone is the gateway for platform businesses to drive their hooks deep into your psyche and pockets, edge out traditional businesses, and reset markets. In doing so, they are becoming monopolies, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. What is fair play in this new world?

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• Ola
• Platforms
• monopolies
• eCommerce
• Digital Economy
• Zomato
• platform responsibility
• platform strategy
• Uber
• Competition
• Swiggy
• regulating social media platforms
• Facebook
• regulating technology
• Apple
• Amazon
• Netflix

April 27, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Sri Lanka’s social media ban, Beyond Meat IPO, facial recognition, employee activism, robot rights and more

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• robotics
• tech employee activism
• facial recognition
• alternative energy
• interfaces
• future of food
• Beyond Meat
• Blockchain
• Sri Lanka
• genetic engineering
• regulating social media platforms
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machines Like Us
• Ian McEwan
• lab meat
• synthetic meat