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In 2022 alone, Google paid Apple $20 billion to cement its illegal monopoly
Alphabet subsidiary Google is “a monopolist, and has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act…
U.S. judge rules Google has illegal monopoly on search
A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated U.S. antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and…
Why does Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine?
Google pays Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine because iPhone users are…
Apple execs Eddy Cue and John Giannandrea set to testify in DOJ’s Google search trial
Two of Apple’s highest-ranking executives will testify in the U.S. Department of Justice’s trial against Alphabet subsidiary Google …
DOJ antitrust trial focuses on the billions Google pays Apple to be Safari’s default search engine
The Department of Justice’s case against Alphabet-subsidiary Google is the first test of Silicon Valley’s dominance since it took action against…
U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google could benefit Apple
A landmark lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department against Alphabet’s Google subsidiary over its abusive digital advertising monopoly…
U.S. Justice Department sues Google for monopolizing digital advertising technologies
Today, the U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology…
Facing stalemate, backers of U.S. big tech antitrust bill push for vote
Facing a potential stalemate, U.S. lawmakers House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.), Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.)…
Vulnerable U.S. Senate Democrats back off bill seeking Big Tech crackdown
A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation’s largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats…
36 U.S. states sue Alphabet for ‘unlawfully’ maintaining Google Play Store monopoly on Android phones
Thirty-six U.S. state attorneys general sued Alphabet alleging it unlawfully maintains a monopoly for its Google Play Store on Android phones…
German antitrust watchdog announces probe of Apple
Apple became the latest target of a German antitrust crackdown on tech giants’ market power with the Federal Cartel Office announcing…
U.S. House committee approves blueprint for antitrust crackdown on ‘Big Tech’
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has formally approved an antitrust report accusing Big Tech companies of buying or…
Four more U.S. states join Texas-led antitrust lawsuit against Google
Four more states have joined a lawsuit filed by Texas and others against Alphabet Inc’s Google that accuses it of breaking antitrust laws…
U.S. government asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case
U.S. government antitrust authorities asked Alphabet unit Google to fork over granular information on how its search engine works…
U.S. House members assail Big Tech, consider changes to antitrust law
The four Big Tech members – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook – received another tongue-lashing centered on antitrust concerns…
Twitter warns user growth to slow; expects ‘modest impact’ from Apple’s privacy push
Twitter on Tuesday beat quarterly sales and profit estimates but missed expectations on user growth and warned this rate would…
Klobuchar’s antitrust reform bill could cause Apple to be fined 15% of its annual revenue
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., unveiled a sweeping antitrust reform bill on Thursday that could, theoretically, cause Apple to be fined…
Details about Apple default search deal shows how Google discourages competition
The DOJ’s case against Google’s centers on its practice of spending billions of dollars a year to become the default search engine on…
Apple seeks to keep competitive secrets from Google in-house lawyers
In a filing Friday in federal court in Washington, Apple said confidential competitive secrets it provided to the U.S. DOJ for the Google …
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz: Big tech companies like Google are ‘drunk on power’
“Big tech is, I believe, drunk on power. They are getting more brazen.” — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz voiced displeasure over…
DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple
The U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit is targeting Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple. The Justice Department’s lawsuit…
Google is finally getting the antitrust treatment it deserves
The U.S. Justice Department today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law…
U.S. DOJ cites Apple deal in antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google
The United State’s Department of Justice on Tuesday filed antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google that focus on the company’s…
U.S. DOJ says Google breakup may be needed to end violations of antitrust law
The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, claiming the $1 trillion company uses its…
U.S. government to file antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law…
Japan to join forces with U.S., Europe in regulating Big Tech
The new head of Japan’s antitrust watchdog said on Monday that the country will take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech …
Big Tech’s market dominance spurs numerous U.S. antitrust probes
The four U.S. “Big Tech” companies — Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — face an array of antitrust investigations at the…
China’s high app store fees make Apple’s look cheap
The words “app store” appeared 340 times in a report accusing Big Tech of abusing its market power. They should see China’s app stores …
Without a ‘blue wave,’ Big Tech faces limited risk from antitrust push out of Washington D.C.
The “Big Tech” companies — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook — face limited risk from a renewed antitrust push out of Washington D.C…
Apple ‘vehemently disagrees’ with House Democrats’ antitrust conclusions as 95% of employee contributions go to Biden
After a 16-month antitrust investigation into competitive practices at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, the U.S. House Democrat …
House Democrats say Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook enjoy ‘monopoly power’
After a 16-month antitrust investigation into competitive practices at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, the U.S. House of Representatives…
Senate panel compels CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify over political bias
A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to compel testimony from the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter as lawmakers opened a new front…
Apple throws a stick into antitrust regulators’ spokes
In iOS 14, likely to the chagrin of antitrust regulators worldwide, Apple will allow users to choose their own default browser and email apps…
U.S. states lean toward breakup of Google’s ad tech business
The state attorneys general investigating Google are considering pushing for a breakup of the tech giant’s ad technology business as part of an expected…
Apple CEO Cook: Monopolies aren’t bad if they aren’t abused
Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the existence of monopolies in business, while also denying that Apple has a monopoly in any sector….
Attorney General Barr elevates antitrust lawyer Lauren Willard to coordinate ‘Big Tech’ review
Attorney General William Barr has elevated a lawyer from the Justice Department’s antitrust division to be his point person…
U.S. DOJ’s ‘Big Tech’ investigation could actually turn out to be good news for the tech giants
The Justice Department’s surprise Big Tech investigation was highly unusual and it could actually turn out to be good news for the tech giants…
U.S. DOJ announces broad antitrust review examining Apple, Google, and others
The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition…
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion for freezing out online advertising rivals
Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time…
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook and Google may need to be broken up
Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up…
The Boston Globe Editorial Board: Break up Google
Never in the history of the world has a single company had so much control over what people know and think…
