Google has an illegal monopoly on search, US judge findsThis move is also a green light to aggressive US antitrust enforcers prosecuting Big Tech, a sector that has been under fire from across th...
06 Aug, 2024, 08.11 AM IST
What's next in Google's court battle with the US Justice Department?Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will rule sometime in 2024 on whether any of Google's actions brok...
17 Nov, 2023, 10.52 AM IST
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledges importance of being default search engine in US trialGoogle, which started paying for default status on devices in 2005, monitored for compliance. At one point, the company expressed concern t...
31 Oct, 2023, 08.46 AM IST
Google CEO Sundar Pichai to testify in landmark US antitrust trialThe government, in cross-examination, will likely also ask Pichai why the company pays billions of dollars annually to ensure that Google s...
30 Oct, 2023, 03.58 PM IST
Google paid $26 billion to be default search engine in 2021: reportGoogle's revenue from search advertising came in at $146.4 billion in 2021, while the payments for the default setting were its biggest cos...
28 Oct, 2023, 09.08 AM IST
'Google's deals lock up 50% of US searches'Google's exclusive deals to be the default search engine on mobile devices and PC browsers in the US block rivals from up to half of all qu...
18 Oct, 2023, 12.34 AM IST
What Google's antitrust trial means for your search habitsHowever, a blanket ban on default search agreements that have been highly profitable for Apple and other companies such as wireless provide...
15 Oct, 2023, 07.36 PM IST
Five things to know about the Google antitrust trial as it hits halfway markIn the trial that started on Sept. 12 and is scheduled to go to about mid-November, the Justice Department accused Google of manipulating o...
12 Oct, 2023, 11.25 PM IST
Google’s Sundar Pichai decried bad ‘optics’ of search engine deal with AppleGoogle’s Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company’s chief executive officer that its deal with Apple Inc. had bad “...
11 Oct, 2023, 09.20 AM IST
Google's billion-dollar payouts got in the way of a deal with Apple: DuckDuckGo CEOA transcript from the trails showed DuckDuckGo had struck a deal with Apple in 2014 to be shown as an option on Apple devices, but the deal...
06 Oct, 2023, 09.30 AM IST
Microsoft executive says Google deals kept Bing smallA Microsoft executive testified on Thursday that Apple and other smartphone makers turned down revenue sharing agreements that would have h...
28 Sep, 2023, 10.21 PM IST
Apple, Google agreed to ‘defend’ search deal from regulators: ExecutiveGoogle first became the default option in the Safari browser in 2002. That deal has been revised several times. Cue said the contract was e...
27 Sep, 2023, 11.53 PM IST
Google antitrust trial: Verizon executive to kick off second week of hearingThe Justice Department argues that Google agreements with mobile carriers and others worth $10 billion annually to win powerful default pos...
16 Sep, 2023, 12.51 AM IST
US justice department blasts Google's monopolistic tactics as antitrust trial beginsGoogle denied that it had illegally used agreements to exclude its search competitors and said it had simply provided a superior product, a...
13 Sep, 2023, 08.27 AM IST
Google pays $10 billion a year to maintain monopoly, says USThe Justice Department and 52 attorneys general from states and US territories allege Google illegally maintained its monopoly by paying bi...
13 Sep, 2023, 12.23 AM IST
Google’s monopoly delayed innovations like ChatGPT, US Justice Department saysDays after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would incorporate OpenAI’s AI-powered chat technology into its Bing search engine, Alphabet In...
14 Apr, 2023, 10.39 AM IST
Google argues it doesn't block rivals in bid to kill US government antitrust lawsuitIn December, Google asked Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia to throw out both the antitrust case that ...
12 Jan, 2023, 07.56 AM IST