AT&T-Time Warner Judge Fires Starting Gun in the Battle Against Tech

As long as the big tech is the enemy, companies are pretty much free to buy, sell and trade assets to keep from falling behind. Judge Richard Leon said as much when he approved when he approved AT&T's acquisition of Time warner. He isn’t wrong that Silicon Valley giants pose real threats to media companies. For consumers, that may mean higher prices for services they buy from AT&T and Time Warner now, all in the name of competition. For investors, this means a wave of deals in which companies will invoke threats from tech giants as excuses to spend billions ostensibly to fight back.