The Justice Department is reportedly pressuring Google to spin off its Chrome browser.

By Bloomberg, the Department of Justice is said to be in push mode to force Google to spin off its Chrome browser business.
The Justice Department is reportedly pressuring Google to spin off its Chrome browser.

By Bloomberg, the Department of Justice is said to be in push mode to force Google to spin off its Chrome browser business.

That's according to Bloomberg, which also reported that the Justice Department plans to recommend to a federal judge that Google face antitrust requirements related to AI and its Android mobile operating system.

The enforcement actions are the fruit of the Justice Department's historic multiyear case against Google, which sought to prove that the tech giant has a web search monopoly in the U.S. The Justice Department won its case in August; federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google broke antitrust laws in both online search and search text ads markets.

Why Chrome? The Justice Department said it controls access to Google Search for many consumers. Chrome holds about 61 percent of the browser market in the United States, according to web traffic service StatCounter.

 

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2024-11-19 19:05:12