UK politics blunts antitrust action against GoogleBritain’s competition watchdog has proposed new powers to regulate Google’s dominance in search, but political support for tough action is ...
25 Jun, 2025, 10.37 PM IST
Not breaking up Google, CEO Sundar Pichai indicatesPichai said at the Bloomberg Tech Summit that some of the remedies proposed in the antitrust case against Google are more extreme than the ...
05 Jun, 2025, 06.02 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Behind Google’s fight against a second big antitrust trial in USThis case is part of US President Joe Biden’s broader push to regulate Big Tech using antitrust laws. It comes close on the heels of a sign...
09 Sep, 2024, 08.07 AM IST
US judge says Google must face some advertisers' antitrust claims, dismisses othersGoogle must face a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it monopolizes the ad exchange market. The U.S. Justice Department sued Google fo...
02 Mar, 2024, 11.02 AM IST
Google pushes for antitrust action against Microsoft in UK cloud marketMicrosoft and Amazon have faced mounting scrutiny around the world over their dominance of the cloud computing industry, with regulators in...
01 Dec, 2023, 07.58 AM IST
Google reaches tentative settlement in US Play Store lawsuitConsumers claimed they might have spent less on apps and had more options if it weren't for the alleged monopoly. Google had denied wrongdo...
06 Sep, 2023, 10.57 AM IST
US judge set to decertify Google Play class actionA U.S. judge plans to free Google from having to defend against a class action by 21 million consumers who claimed it violated federal anti...
29 Aug, 2023, 08.14 AM IST
Texas wins round against Google as antitrust lawsuit returned to stateTexas had asked for the lawsuit to be moved back after the US Congress passed the Venue Act in 2022 that grants state attorneys general the...
06 Jun, 2023, 09.48 AM IST
Government plans action against Google after antitrust breachesIndia's government plans to take action against Alphabet Inc's Google after an antitrust watchdog last year found the group to have abused ...
20 May, 2023, 08.52 AM IST
Judicial delays don't help competitionThe bigger challenge for policymakers trying to keep concentration from building up in markets, particularly in the digital economy, is del...
13 Feb, 2023, 12.25 AM IST
Google, it needs to be a trust thingPenalties imposed in India do not match the deterrence of other markets. But they do reinforce concerted action by trustbusters.
27 Oct, 2022, 11.13 PM IST
Google faces ‘very large’ EU Ad probeTechnology “is really a high priority for us because what has happened over these last 12 months has changed a lot of habits”, Vestager tol...
12 Mar, 2021, 11.17 PM IST
Google withdrawal threats risk antitrust backlash, says Margrethe VestagerVestager told the European Parliament's economy committee on Tuesday that there could be scope for “investigating if it’s actually legal fo...
24 Feb, 2021, 11.57 PM IST
Biden should expand antitrust cases, break up tech companies, says high-profile groupThe American Economic Liberties Project, an influential Washington-based anti-monopoly group, issued a report with guidance for antitrust e...
12 Jan, 2021, 10.37 AM IST
Google antitrust case: America says search giant may have to be broken up to end violationsThe lawsuit, which was joined by 11 states, marks the biggest antitrust case in a generation, comparable to the lawsuit against Microsoft C...
20 Oct, 2020, 09.13 PM IST
Google facing onslaught of antitrust cases in US: ReportThe Justice Department may file its case as early as this summer while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may take action in the fall, along...
16 May, 2020, 01.29 PM IST
- Google in EU antitrust crosshairs
Google Inc may face closer scrutiny as EU regulators take a careful look at allegations of antitrust breaches in relation to internet searc...
08 Jul, 2010, 02.43 AM IST