The US Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to force Google to sell Chrome, according to Bloomberg. Prying the browser from the rest of the company is only one of the measures the DOJ will ask the courts to enforce, following a ruling that the company maintained an illegal search monopoly. While ripping Chrome from Google might seem a relatively simple measure, there are a huge number of complicating factors that make it a trickier operation than it might first appear, factors that cou
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Earlier this week, a US federal judge ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire. The injunction was issued by US District Judge James Donato and will require Google to make several changes that the California company had been resisting. Those include a provision that will require its Play Store for Android apps to distribute rival third-party a
A US federal judge ruled on 05 August 2024 that Google violated antitrust laws as it built its Internet search business. The decision might have major implications for the way people use the Internet. The court ruled that payments to make Google the default search engine on other browsers broke US antitrust rules, enabling Google to become a monopoly. The court further ruled that Google had acted illegally to suppress its competition and maintain a monopoly on online search and related highly lu
