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The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue.

The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue.

The contracts at the center of the fight made Google the default search engine on almost all U.S. smartphones and locked in that exclusivity for years, giving the company a major advantage just as Americans were starting to flock to smartphones. In its antitrust suit against Google last October, DOJ revealed that the company pays as much as $12 billion a year to Apple alone to keep its search engine as the default on iPhones, iPads and the Safari browser. The FTC memos suggest Obama-era… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which accuses the company of breaking antitrust law in its search and search advertising businesses. Google has balked at some of the production, describing… Source link

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Donald Trump’s Lawyers Hold Press Conference at Wrong Four Seasons in Philadelphia

Donald Trump’s Lawyers Hold Press Conference at Wrong Four Seasons in Philadelphia

As he continued to be in a state of denial about the impending results of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump teased a “big” press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia on Twitter Saturday morning. “Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M,” he wrote. The tweet has since been deleted and replaced with a very important clarification about the actual location.   Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping —… Source link

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