Washington is late to the party but its' implications can be global. This will be interesting to watch. 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, Google <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet/>, Amazon <http://fortune.com/fortune500/amazon-com/>, Microsoft, Apple <http://fortune.com/fortune500/apple/>, and a hand­ful of less-gigantic competitors—now face a greater regulatory threat than at any other time in their relatively brief existence. Read on:- How Washington will tame #BigTech <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}> *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *AHK & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.