oligopoly

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Surfacing answers from across the internet, Alexa describes Apple as an “oligopoly” and cites Alphabet’s Google as violating privacy rights, according to Bloomberg News tests of the software on three devices.

From Seattle Times

"The United States' request to Mexico follows the interests of seed, agrochemical, and other food-producing oligopolies," said Mexican Deputy Agriculture Minister Victor Suarez.

From Reuters

“They are locked into secret agreements with P.B.M.s — also an oligopoly with three major players — in which neither party will disclose what the true price of insulin products actually is.”

From New York Times

Food and energy are among the industries dominated by a small number of players that have effective oligopolies, and the lack of competition allows them to keep prices high, the group said.

From Seattle Times

Musk has said the sweeping change to Twitter’s “verified” system, first unveiled in 2009, would shake up the establishment journalists he routinely criticizes by breaking their “oligopoly on information.”

From Washington Post