Google’s facing a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice and eight states over its alleged monopoly on the digital advertising market. The agency accuses the company of abusing “monopoly power” at the disadvantage of websites and advertisers who use other advertising tools, according...
The maker of popular video game Fortnite has won a US court battle against Google, with a jury deciding that the search giant had operated an illegal monopoly. Epic Games sued Google in 2020, accusing it of unlawfully making its app store dominant over rivals. Hundreds of millions of people...
It looks like things are going to get hot and heavy for Google, as the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), along with eight states, have now filed a lawsuit, alleging the company of "monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products." The filing states that Google utilizes m...
The article suggests that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was vying for monopoly in technology markets which may have lead to the violation of antitrust laws. Schmidt is described to have previously worked for Novell which lost market share after Microsoft dominated the networking business. He...
A federal judge in Washington declared on Monday that Google has been operating as an illegal monopoly and violating antitrust laws. It's a victory for the U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Google for illegally paying about $26 billion in 2021 to companies to make Google the default ...
“The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote. Mehta’s ruling against Alphabet’s major revenue driver paves the way for a second trial to determine potential fixes, such as ...
In January, the U.S. Department of Justice and eight statessued Googleover allegations of abusive "monopoly power" over its advertising tools. Again, complaints are made that website publishers cannot use competing services due to Google's dominance. ...
Google illegally maintained an online search monopoly, a US court has said, in one of the biggest rulings against the company's market dominance. The tech giant has been successfully sued in federal court by the US Justice Department and states which argued it remained the most used internet ...
He said Google’s dominance in the search market is evidence of its monopoly. Advertisement Google “enjoys an 89.2% share of the market for general search services, which increases to 94.9% on mobile devices,” the ruling said. Related Stories Judge hears closing arguments on whether Google...
As predicted, a coalition of 10 states have sued Google for alleged monopolistic behavior in digital advertising. The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Google in October, accusing the company of abusing its monopoly in the search business. Shortly after, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that sta...