Google Anti-trust Case

Google faces EU fine for boosting its own search platforms over rivals

Google may face its first EU fine under the new Digital Markets Act for giving unfair advantage to its own services like Google Shopping, Flights and Hotels, hurting competition and rivals

Explained: How Google kept Chrome after its biggest antitrust showdown

The US court spared Chrome in Google's monopoly case, tightening rules on deals and data but stopping short of breaking up its massive ad business

US judge orders Google to revamp search engine in monopoly case

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the US government's request to break up the company. The 226-page decision made by US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, will likely ripple across the technological landscape at a time when the industry is being reshaped by artificial intelligence breakthroughs including conversational answer engines as companies like ChatGPT and Perplexity try to upend Google's long-held position as the internet's main gateway. Mehta is trying to rein in Google by placing new restraints on some of the tactics the company deployed to drive traffic to its search engine and other services. But the judge stopped short of banning the multi-billion dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock in its search engine as the default on smartphones, personal computers and other devices. Those deals, involving payments of .

Google fined $36 mn for anticompetitive deals with top Australian telcos

Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia's two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the US tech giant and Australia's competition watchdog said. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement it had commenced proceedings in the Australian Federal Court on Monday against the Singapore-based Google Asia Pacific division. The court will decide whether the AU$50 million ($36 million) penalty is appropriate. Under the anticompetitive agreements, which were in place for 15 months until March 2021, Telstra and Optus only pre-installed Google Search on Android phones sold to customers. Other search engines were excluded. In return, the telcos received a share of the advertisement revenue Google generated from those customers. Google accepted that the agreements were likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition,

Google agrees to reforms in $500 mn antitrust settlement with shareholders

Google parent Alphabet will invest $500 million over a decade to overhaul compliance under a shareholder antitrust lawsuit

Google broke law by dominating online ad tech market, rules US judge

US court rules Google broke antitrust laws in ad tech market, paving way for possible breakup of its ad business. DOJ pushes for sale of key units like Google Ad Manager

Here's how Google spent 15 years in creating a culture of concealment

Firm told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy lawyers as often as possible to avoid antitrust suits

Judge defers order in Google antitrust case requiring to open its app store

A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal questions surrounding a jury's verdict that branded Google as an illegal monopolist. The delay granted during a court hearing in San Francisco comes less than two weeks after US District Judge James Donato issued a decision that would have forced Google to make sweeping changes to its Play Store for Android smartphones starting November 1. The mandated changes included a provision that would have required Google to make its library of more than 2 million Android apps available to any rivals that wanted access to the inventory and also distribute the alternative options in its own Play Store. Google requested Donato's order be stayed until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals could examine the handling of a month-long trial that led to the December 2023 verdict, which framed the Play Store as an ..

US Justice Dept considers rare antitrust move: Breaking up Google

The move would be Washington's first push to dismantle a company for illegal monopolisation since unsuccessful efforts to break up Microsoft Corp. two decades ago

Google's Pichai decried bad 'optics' of search engine deal with Apple

"I know we are insisting on default, but at the same time I think we should encourage them to have Yahoo as a choice in the pull-down or some other easy option," Pichai wrote

TMS Ep523: Car airbags, Nirmala Sitharaman, Zomato stock, Google antitrust

Has cost trumped safety for car airbags? What are three key takeaways from FM's interview with BS? Time to add Zomato stock to your portfolio? What's the US vs Google antitrust trial? Answers here

Google anti-trust trial spotlights internal dispute over algorithm vs data

And now it's a key feature in a landmark antitrust trial, where the US Justice Department claims Google spends billions of dollars to stifle competition and preserve its monopoly over online search

Google asks Supreme Court to quash Android antitrust directives: Report

In March an Indian tribunal gave partial relief to the Alphabet Inc unit by setting aside four of the 10 directives in the case

India's anti-trust law raises penalty, seeks deposit before appeal

India's income tax law too requires a deposit of 20% before appeal

Google hits back in US search antitrust lawsuit, says doesn't block rivals

Android is a mobile operating system, licensed open source, in which Google has invested billions of dollars since its release in the fall of 2008

Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to antitrust order

"Google will be required to make far-reaching changes to the Android mobile platform which has been in place for the last 14-15 years"

Google likely to approach Supreme Court on Friday against CCI order

The appellate tribunal directed Google to pay 10 per cent of the penalty fees levied by the competition commission of India (CCI) as a condition for admitting its appeal for stay

Google set to challenge Android antitrust ruling at Supreme Court

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined the Alphabet Inc unit $161 million for exploiting its dominant position in the market for Android which powers 97% of smartphones in India

US state attorneys lean towards breaking up Google's ad tech business

Google, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc are under a series of probes into allegations

US to file antitrust lawsuits against Google for 'monopolising' online ads

This isn't the first time Google has been thrust under the microscope of antitrust in the US