{"id":21040,"date":"2020-10-21T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21040"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:45","slug":"google-lawsuit-could-have-downstream-chilling-effect-on-emerging-tech-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/21\/google-lawsuit-could-have-downstream-chilling-effect-on-emerging-tech-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Google lawsuit could have downstream chilling effect on emerging tech startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tech giant Google, which has at office in downtown Detroit, is being sued by the U.S. government alleging antitrust violations. (Kirk Pinho\/Crain’s Detroit Business)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. government’s lawsuit alleging violations of antitrust laws by technology giant Google marks a new era of uncertainty for emerging startup companies in Southeast Michigan and beyond, according to Erik Gordon<\/strong>, a clinical assistant professor at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The immediate impact of the lawsuit, said Gordon in a recent story in Crain’s Detroit Business<\/a>, will be a chilling effect in which companies like Google will likely halt any acquisition activity of smaller companies, taking off the table one common barometer of success for startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it’s a new world for tech companies,” said Gordon, who focuses on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, as well as all manner of business finance. “And … most small tech companies dream of being big, powerful tech companies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. government’s lawsuit alleging violations of antitrust laws by technology giant Google marks a new era of uncertainty for emerging startup companies in Southeast Michigan and beyond, according to Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. The immediate impact of the lawsuit, said Gordon in a recent story in Crain’s Detroit Business, will\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,302,87,199],"class_list":["post-21040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-google","tag-law"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i.jpg",792,594,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-187x140.jpg",187,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-267x200.jpg",267,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-768x576.jpg",665,499,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-700x525.jpg",600,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i.jpg",792,594,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i.jpg",792,594,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i-665x499.jpg",665,499,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GoogleDetroitOffice_i_0_i.jpg",333,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The U.S. government’s lawsuit alleging violations of antitrust laws by technology giant Google marks a new era of uncertainty for emerging startup companies in Southeast Michigan and beyond, according to Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. The immediate impact of the lawsuit, said Gordon in a recent story in Crain’s…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21044,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040\/revisions\/21044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}