Following a landmark antitrust ruling in August, the Department of Justice and a group of states made a court filing Wednesday asking a judge to force Google to sell its popular Chrome web browser.Google was found to have an illegal monopoly in web search in the August ruling in federal court, and it remained an open question whether the government would seek to have Google (and parent company Alphabet) broken up. Now, as the Associated Press re…

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Department of Justice Pushes for Google to Sell Off Chrome, Android

The US Justice Department and a group of states proposed major changes to Alphabet Inc.’s Google - including a forced sale of the company’s Chrome web browser - after a landmark ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.

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US Justice Department seeks Google Chrome sale to curb monopoly

The U.S. Justice Department and a group of states proposed major changes to Alphabet Inc.’s Google — including a forced sale of the company’s Chrome web browser — after a landmark ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.

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U.S. Justice Department seeks sale of Google Chrome to curb monopoly

The US Justice Department and a group of states proposed major changes to Alphabet Inc.’s Google — including a forced sale of the company’s Chrome web browser — after a landmark ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.

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The Department of Justice asked a federal judge to force Google to sell off its popular web browser, Chrome. It comes after an antitrust case this past summer that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. William Brangham discussed the potential impacts both for the company and the internet with Bobby Allyn of NPR.

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Feds push Google to sell Chrome browser to break search monopoly

After the US District Court of Columbia ruled in August that Google is an illegal monopoly in the Search and search text advertising segments, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has now demanded that the company break up to fix the situation. In its proposed final judgment for the antitrust case, DOJ has urged the court to order that Google divest the Chrome browser. Further, it has advised behavioral remedies for the company to “blunt Google’s abi…

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DoJ seeks Google Chrome sale, android limits in monopoly case

The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to order that Google LLC offload its Chrome browser. The request was included in a court filing that became public late Wednesday. The document also proposes other antitrust measures, including that Google change some of its business practices in the search market. The Alphabet Inc. unit […] The post Justice Department asks federal judge to order that Google sell Chrome appeared first on Sili…

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Justice Department asks federal judge to order that Google sell Chrome - SiliconANGLE

The Department of Justice has officially requested that Google sell off its Chrome web browser and stop making Google the default search engine in web browsers and on phones, including both Android phones and iPhones. The request is the DoJ's proposed remedy in an ongoing federal anti-trust case in which the court has already found Google guilty of maintaining an abusive monopoly. Google would further be barred from favoring its own services — s…

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Department of Justice Seeks to Separate Chrome and Google Search from Android

Internet giant Google from the Alphabet group should sell its Chrome browser or reduce the preference of its search engine on Android. These are among the Justice Department's proposals to break up Google after a court declared it a monopoly. Google will have the opportunity to submit its own proposals in December, calling the ministry's demands "amazing." For example, the Wall Street Journal informs.

Internetový gigant Google ze skupiny Alphabet by měl prodat svůj prohlížeč Chrome či omezit upřednostňování svého vyhledávače v systému Android. To jsou jedny z návrhů ministerstva spravedlnosti na rozdělení Googlu poté, co jej soud označil za monopol. Google bude mít v prosinci možnost předložit vlastní návrhy, požadavky ministerstva označil za udivující. Informuje například Wall Street Journal.

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The US government wants to solve Google's monopoly, it should sell the Chrome browser

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of US states filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to compel Google to divest its Chrome web browser. The DOJ argued that Google’s control over Chrome has significantly bolstered its monopolistic position in the search market. The department contended that forcing Google to divest Chrome is essential to remedy its illegal monopoly. In the case of Android, the department also highlighted Google’s a…

Department of Justice Pushes for Google to Sell Off Chrome, Android

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