After a landmark court decision deemed Google an illegal monopoly, its foes are crafting the legal case for something unthinkable until recently: the internet giant’s breakup.

Google was handed what may be its biggest court defeat in company history this summer when a federal judge deemed its flagship search engine an illegal monopoly, siding with state and federal ...

The power Google has over the mobile app ecosystem is so great that the company has been the target of major lawsuits, and in December 2023 a judge found Google’s Play Store is an illegal monopoly.

The giants of technology are presently immersed in the multi-billion dollar betting equivalent of picking not the winner of Super Bowl LIX, but the winner of LXV.

Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech ...

Google has also charged high prices in search advertising that reflect its monopoly power in search, he added. Google Headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on May 15 ...

The plaintiffs filed the class action lawsuit in state court in 2019 on behalf of an estimated 14 million Californians.

Google is one of only a handful of corporate giants to be taken to court since the 1970s under federal monopoly law. For decades since, U.S. officials have treated high-tech companies gingerly, leery ...

Google Faces Its Monopoly Reckoning. The Justice Department’s proposal that the company share data, shed its Chrome browser, and cease exclusionary contracts deserves broad support. By .

F orgive yourself if you have forgotten that Google, owned by Alphabet, is on its third month in the dock during the biggest anti-monopoly trial since America’s Department of Justice (DoJ) won a ...

The case — U.S. et al. v. Google — is the federal government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, as a generation of tech companies has come to wield immense influence over ...

Monopoly charges of that magnitude are a rarity. Google is one of only a handful of corporate giants to be taken to court since the 1970s under federal monopoly law.