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Google controls 88 percent of search advertising

Facebook, which also owns Instragram, WhatsApp and Messenger, controls 77 percent of social traffic

Amazon controls 74 percent of e-book market

What to watch for: we are seeing more chatter than ever that these companies are getting too big too fast. Americans retain a romantic view of big tech firms but concerns about fake news, privacy and consumer choice are rising.

A new era of monopolies

Google, Facebook and Amazon are dwarfing the competition

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Per the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="New York Times" data-vars-click-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html" data-vars-content-id="c0a3a2d0-b3d2-406e-b181-700d144f1472" data-vars-headline="A new era of monopolies" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>:<ul><li>Google controls 88 percent of search advertising</li><li>Facebook, which also owns Instragram, WhatsApp and Messenger, controls 77 percent of social traffic</li><li>Amazon controls 74 percent of e-book market</li></ul>What to watch for: we are seeing more chatter than ever that these companies are getting too big too fast. Americans retain a romantic view of big tech firms but concerns about fake news, privacy and consumer choice are rising.

A new era of monopolies

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