The advice shareholder activists have for Google
Worried about the growing power of corporations, some are calling for Alphabet to split up voluntarily before being forced to by anti-trust action
19 June 2019 - 12:27
San Francisco — Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet to break itself up before regulators force the world’s biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces.
SumOfUs, a US-based group that aims to curb the growing power of corporations, is set to make that proposal at Alphabet’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday at an auditorium at the company’s offices in Sunnyvale, California...
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