Is the Google Antitrust Ruling a ‘Big Whiff,’ or an Advantage for Rivals Like Microsoft?

Google Gets to Keep Chrome in Major Antitrust Ruling

Google can keep its Chrome browser, a judge ruled in Washington this week, settling a five-year antitrust case that threatened to break up the tech giant. At the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Sept. 2, District Judge Amit Mehta ruled in the case that Google must open up its market-sharing capabilities to rivals and forbade the company from creating exclusive contracts. Google is also allowed to retain its Android operating s…

Antitrust Needs to Catch Up with the Pace of Technology

The White House has declared artificial intelligence “non-negotiable” for America’s future. Winning the AI race, the administration argues, is essential to the nation’s prosperity and security. But if the United States is serious about that goal, it needs to rethink how it approaches antitrust, letting fast-moving markets generally solve market power problems on their own. Today’s antitrust enforcers treat markets as if they are frozen in time. …

Is the Google antitrust ruling a ‘big whiff,’ or an advantage for rivals like Microsoft?

In a closely watched antitrust case, a federal judge ruled this week that Google has to share search results and some data with rival companies. But the judge ruled Google does not have to sell off Chrome, its ubiquitous web browser. What could this ruling mean for our homegrown tech behemoth Microsoft, and other search engine rivals of Google? GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop looked into that and other questions in a new piece. He told KUOW’s Ki…