#Business #Reports
Chrome on the chopping block · The court ruled that Google has a search monopoly https://ilo.im/163fqf
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#Google #Monopoly #AntitrustTrial #DOJ #Chrome #Browser #Development #WebDev #Frontend
Google Faces Historic Breakup
A three-week trial began today that could force Google to sell off its Chrome browser, among other remedies for its illegal monopolization...#Google..#monopoly https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-21-google-antitrust-breakup-chrome/
«It’s unusual now to allege that #Walmart or #Amazon are bulwarks of fascism, but back then, seeing bigness as a political alternative to democracy was routine.»
«There is no world in which #Google flourishes as a #monopoly and America flourishes as a political democracy. We must choose. Since the 1970s, we have chosen poorly, and Americans have become more tolerant of authoritarianism in politics, as it just doesn’t seem that different than what they see in commerce.»
Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup
The DOJ has recommended that the company sell Chrome and decouple it from Android. Google might also be forced to sell Android. Additionally, the company faces similar antitrust action in Canada, the UK, the European Union, China, India, and Japan.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107601-google-claims-partial-victory-antitrust-hearing-over-ad.html
Random Retro Game:
Title: Monopoly (1988)
Released: None
Platforms: SEGA Master System
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/6919
#NewsLaughs #AIComedy #LaughWithAI #ComedyGold #AIJokes
I frankly speaking didn't expect much from the FTC's case against Facebook. But reading through @pluralistic's piece, I think I should grab some popcorn and a cold beverage, sit back, and enjoy the show. #ftc #meta #monopoly
"Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case" -
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/
Today's annoyance: Hotel wifi that makes the assumption that you will visit google.com. Do that, and you get redirected to their sign in page. Use any other URL, and it delivers a blank page.
Absolutely no instructions available that you have to do this. Desk staff don't know about it either. It's just *assumed*.
#Google acted illegally to maintain a #monopoly in some online #advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.86 trillion company and alter its power over the #internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html
At #monopoly trial, #Zuckerberg redefined social media as texting with friends
#socialmedia
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/at-monopoly-trial-zuckerberg-redefined-social-media-as-texting-with-friends/
How many minutes before we flip over the Monopoly board in a fit of rage?
Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules - The New York Times
Down with these monopolies.... they are in the way of innovation and progress.
Google is a monopoly in online ad tech, Federal judge rules
Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. FRANCE 24's Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles.
#Google #advertising #antitrust #technology #monopoly
“U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers.”
Google found to hold illegal monopoly over online ad business https://www.byteseu.com/930786/ #AdExchange #AdExchanges #AntitrustLaws #business #DisplayAdvertising #google #JusticeDepartment #LeonieBrinkema #monopoly #OnlineAdvertising
via AFP
A US judge on Thursday ruled that #Google wielded #monopoly power in the online ad technology market in a blow that could rattle the tech giant's revenue engine.
The federal government and more than a dozen US states filed the antitrust suit against Alphabet-owned Google, accusing it of acting illegally to dominate three sectors of digital #advertising -- publisher ad servers, advertiser tools, and ad exchanges.
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found #Google liable for "willfully acquiring & maintaining #monopoly power" in markets for publisher #ad servers & the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers & sellers. Publisher ad servers are platforms used by websites to store & manage their ad inventory.
