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What’s Next for the FTC After Its Microsoft Loss

Let’s brush up on the difference between monopoly and monopsony.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Corp., testified in the case in June.

Photographer: Shelby Knowles/Bloomberg

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Have you ever seen one of those graphics floating around the internet that illustrate how just a handful of big corporations owns most of the consumer brands on supermarket shelves? They usually include companies such as Unilever (whose brands span Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to Hellmann’s mayonnaise), Mondelez International (Oreo, Cadbury), Kellogg (Pringles, Pop-Tarts) and General Mills (Cocoa Puffs, Haagen-Dazs, Green Giant).