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Antitrust will help guide growth of ‘sharing economy,’ national antitrust chiefs say

By Mike Swift ( April 17, 2015, 21:19 GMT | Insight) -- Until now, the regulation of fast-growing “sharing economy” Internet-enabled companies such as Uber Technologies and Airbnb has been a local affair based on enforcing state or local consumer-protection authority. But the leading antitrust enforcers from the US, Europe and the UK agreed at a conference on Friday that competition law is increasingly likely to play a guiding role as a regulatory regime develops for a group of upstart technology businesses.Until now, the regulation of fast-growing “sharing economy” Internet-enabled companies such as Uber Technologies and Airbnb has been a local affair based on enforcing state or local consumer protection authority. ...

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