Google is in more danger than ever of being broken up
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Summary
Alphabet Inc’s Google is set to face a trial from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) which is seeking to break up the tech giant and impose other restrictions on its business operations over anti-trust concerns.
The three-week trial commencing on Monday 18 April will argue for the sale of the company’s Chrome browser, the sharing of search data with competitors, keeping the government informed of AI investments, and the ending of exclusionary deals with browser and phone makers.
A separate but related trial will take place in coming months over anti-trust concerns in the ad tech market.
It is the most significant anti-trust challenge to a major tech company in the US for decades, since Microsoft lost its case over its PC operating system monopoly in the 1990s.
Google has vowed to appeal against the judgements, but experts believe that the company’s business model could be fundamentally reshaped.