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Eric Risberg/AP Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, takes part in a discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Washington CNN  —  … Source link

Th Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc’s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding its dominance over the digital advertising market, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit would be the second federal antitrust complaint filed against Google, alleging violations of antitrust law in how the tech giant acquires or maintains its dominance. The Justice Department lawsuit filed against Google in 2020 focuses on… Source link

Jan 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google as soon as Tuesday regarding its dominance over the digital advertising market, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit would be the second federal antitrust complaint filed against Google, alleging violations of antitrust law in how the tech giant acquires or maintains its dominance. The Justice Department lawsuit filed against Google in 2020 focuses… Source link

Before his confirmation as assistant attorney general in November 2021, Jonathan Kanter had represented companies including Microsoft, News Corp. and Yelp in their complaints over Google’s alleged anticompetitive activity in the online search and advertising markets. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo The Justice Department has cleared antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee investigations and litigation involving Google, potentially paving the way for him to lead a federal antitrust case… Source link

People walk past a billboard advertisement for YouTube on September 27, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images The Department of Justice warned the Supreme Court against an overly broad interpretation of a law shielding social media companies from liability for what users post on their platforms, a position that undermines Google’s defense in a case that could reshape the role of content moderation on digital platforms. In a brief filed Wednesday led by DOJ Acting Solicitor General… Source link

Washington CNN Business  —  Apple and Google’s continued hosting of TikTok on their app stores, despite US national security concerns about the short-form video app, reflects the tech giants’ “gatekeeper” power and should be made part of any antitrust reviews the app stores may face, a member of the Federal Communications Commission wrote to the Justice Department last week. The previously unreported… Source link

Google pays “billions” to other companies to keep Google Search as the default option on phones, in browsers and elsewhere, maintaining an illegal dominance over the search market, the Justice Department said Thursday in court. Driving the news: Lawyers for Google along with the Justice Department spoke before federal judge Amit Mehta Thursday in a hearing where both sides laid out relevant facts in the DOJ’s 2020 antitrust suit against the search giant. The hearing was a tutorial of sorts… Source link

Alphabet’s Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple, Samsung Electronics and other telecom giants to illegally maintain its spot as the No. 1 search engine, the US Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. DOJ attorney Kenneth Dintzer didn’t disclose how much Google spends to be the default search engine on most browsers and all US mobile phones, but described the payments as “enormous numbers.”  “Google invests billions in defaults, knowing people won’t… Source link

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era Espionage Act. That law has traditionally been used to target government leakers, such as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. But it also “actually has provisions that apply to essentially the… Source link

The logo of Google is seen at the high profile startups and high tech leaders gathering, Viva Tech, in Paris, France May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google in weeks over its dominance in the online advertising market, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Justice… Source link