Maurice Stucke, a UT Law professor and former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, recently echoed sentiments that a merger between technology companies Google and Twitter is unlikely.
Interviewed by Fortune writer Jeff John Roberts, Stucke explained, “… a problem for U.S. regulators, when it comes to analyzing tech mergers, is that their analytical models are based on prices and marketshare, not more subtle metrics like control over data – which might (or should) be the basis for antitrust analyses in the future, but are not part of the regulators’ toolkit right now.”