<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">Washington is late to the party but its' implications can be global. This will be interesting to watch.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">William Barr, in his January confirmation hearings to become the U.S. attorney general, entered into the lexicon a valuable, if redundant, expression to describe the biggest technology companies in the land. “I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers,” said Barr, an establishment Republican lawyer from central casting—and therefore an unlikely antagonist for Big Business. His locution stuck, heightening the sense that the “behemoths”—Facebook, </span><a href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Google</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">, </span><a href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/amazon-com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Amazon</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">, Microsoft, </span><a href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/apple/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Apple</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">, and a hand­ful of less-gigantic competitors—now face a greater regulatory threat than at any other time in their relatively brief existence.</span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">Read on:-</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000"><a href="http://fortune.com/2019/02/25/silicon-valley-tech-washington-politics/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=data-sheet&utm_content=2019022514pm&eminfo={%22EMAIL%22:%22JNk2tZtaMbpzeF14StdA5NBLnI2w6xn%2B%22,%22BRAND%22:%22FO%22,%22CONTENT%22:%22Newsletter%22,%22UID%22:%22FO_DTA_27AFA3FB-F321-4344-807F-BDD2469CCFB2%22,%22SUBID%22:%2256937916%22,%22JOBID%22:%22941210%22,%22NEWSLETTER%22:%22DATA_SHEET%22,%22ZIP%22:%22%22,%22COUNTRY%22:%22%22}">How Washington will tame #BigTech</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali Hussein</font></b><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>AHK & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-s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