The government and Google made closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge, who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly.
The fate of Google’s search business is now in the hands of Judge Amit Mehta, as closing arguments concluded in the landmark trial on Friday. The Department of Justice and plaintiff states made their last arguments Thursday on Google’s alleged anticompetitive conduct in the general search market,
Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued Friday at the closing of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.
Google has not one but two Department of Justice antitrust trials this year — and the first one, over Google Search, is finally coming to a close. On Thursday, lawyers showed up at the district court in Washington,
Amit P. Mehta ruled the government could proceed to trial with its allegation that Google illegally shielded its monopoly with multibillion-dollar deals to make its search engine the default on
A federal judge questioned Google's defense in an antitrust trial over their dominant position in online search. The judge raised concerns about Google's claim of facing competition, given their overw
The US witnessed one of the largest tech trials in history last year. The trial started back in September, and the main part of it ended in November. What was left in the trial were closing arguments from both Google and DOJ sides,
Google and the U.S. Department of Justice delivered closing arguments Friday in Washington D.C. in the government's antitrust case against the Silicon Valley tech giant.
A federal judge blasted Google for its “negligent” policy that resulted in the deletion of employee chat records as closing arguments wrapped up Friday in a landmark antitrust case that could result in unprecedented changes to the tech giant’s core business.
Closing arguments in the United States v. Google monopoly trial have wrapped up. How the judge decides this case could set a precedent for several other antitrust suits against Big Tech companies.
The landmark antitrust trial over whether Google holds an illegal monopoly over internet search and search advertising came to a close Friday after a 10-week trial that stretched over eight months. The case,
The biggest antitrust trial in more than two decades has revolved around how much Google derives its strength from contracts with companies like Apple to make Google the default search engine preloaded on cellphones and computers.
The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant's search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly.
Closing arguments wrapped up Friday in the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case. The government says Google controls or owns channels for some 80% of all search engine queries in the United States,