Despite countless warnings that the US presidential election would lead to a months-long battle, with a decisive win by Donald Trump and his party, we can immediately look ahead to how the next four years of Republican rule might change the tech industry.
Rhetoric on the reelection campaign trail doesn't necessarily translate into action either, but may well do, so what we guess we're trying to say is that anything could happen. We've tried to make sense of it all for this latestJoining host Iain Thomson is Thomas Claburn, Brandon Vigliarolo, and Chris Williams.
"I think tech is going to be a louder voice in the room and I think that's a new era," he added."It's back to an era like it hasn't been seen since Hearst."First, we can project that regulatory agencies will be shaken up, particularly the FCC and FTC.
In practice, this could lead to easier, thus more, mergers as well as broader industry consolidation, with fewer efforts to make fines for lawbreaking actually punitive rather than being an administrative cost.