On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust case against Google. This is the most significant antitrust case filed since the government suit against Microsoft in 1998, and it also ranks with the most important antitrust suits of all time, including Standard Oil and AT&T. The move by a conservative Republican administration to take on one of the largest companies in the world is a repudiation of the libertarian ideology that has dominated American politics since the 1980s.

The Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google is big, complicated and could take years to resolve. Today’s DealBook newsletter addresses five questions that arise from the government’s action: Why now? A better question might be, “This again?” The Federal Trade Commission conducted a two-year antitrust investigation into Google under President Barack Obama, which went nowhere. Bill Barr, the attorney general, pushed hard to bring this new case before the Nov. 3 presidential… Source link

Google is giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song. Do you ever have a song you just can’t get out of your head? Maybe you know a lyric or two, but not enough to find it.  Now, Google is joining companies like SoundHound and giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song match. … Source link

Google is giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song. Do you ever have a song you just can’t get out of your head? Maybe you know a lyric or two, but not enough to find it.  Now, Google is joining companies like SoundHound and giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song match. … Source link

Google is giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song. Do you ever have a song you just can’t get out of your head? Maybe you know a lyric or two, but not enough to find it.  Now, Google is joining companies like SoundHound and giving users the ability to hum songs, without lyrics, to help find a song match. … Source link

This Nov. 17 and 18, DealBook opens its doors to our first Online Summit. Join us as we welcome the most consequential newsmakers in business, policy and culture to explore the pivotal questions of the moment — and the future. Watch from anywhere in the world, free of charge. Register now. What you need to know about the Google case The Department of Justice has filed its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Google, “the government’s most significant legal challenge to a tech… Source link

If you ask Chrome to delete all cookies and site data whenever you quit the browser, it’s reasonable to expect that this policy applies to all websites. Recently, though, a bug in the browser meant data wasn’t being removed for two sites in particular: Google and YouTube. This problem was first documented by iOS developer Jeff Johnson on his blog. Johnson found that in Chrome version 86.0.4240.75, “local storage” data for Google.com and YouTube.com stuck around even after… Source link

At the heart of the government’s lawsuit is a secretive deal under which Google allegedly pays billions of dollars a year to Apple to ensure that its search product is the default on iPhones and other Apple devices. Google has similar agreements with other companies, but the size of the Apple deal makes it especially crucial to the search giant. The deal: Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple (AAPL) boss Tim Cook, met in 2018 to discuss how their companies could work together to drive… Source link

The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Google yesterday, accusing the company of illegally maintaining a monopoly on search traffic and search advertising in the government’s boldest challenge to Big Tech in a generation. Eleven Republican state attorneys general signed on to support the federal lawsuit yesterday, and seven more states — including New York — may soon file a separate lawsuit against Google, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general,… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sundar Pichai succeeded Larry Page as the head of Google’s parent company in December, he was handed a bag of problems: Shareholders had sued the company, Alphabet, over big financial packages handed to executives accused of misconduct. An admired office culture was fraying. Most of all, antitrust regulators were circling. On Tuesday, the Justice Department accused Google of being “a monopoly gatekeeper of the internet,” one that uses anticompetitive tactics to… Source link