{"id":2832,"date":"2024-08-14T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:00:38","slug":"us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/us-authorities-considering-breaking-up-google-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"US authorities considering breaking up Google \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world\u2019s default search engine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The ruling is seen as the first big win for authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s other options include forcing Alphabet\u2019s <strong>Google<\/strong> to share data with competitors and instating measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products, the reports said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Spectacular meteor shower makes sky glow<\/strong><br \/><strong>Pregnant women urged to get vaccine<\/strong><br \/><strong>Two astronauts stuck in space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breaking off the Android operating system, AdWords, Google\u2019s search ad program, or the Chrome web browser are all options being discussed, according to the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, Amazon and Apple have all had legal action brought against them by antitrust regulators in the past four years for their domination of their markets.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had settled with the Department of Justice in 2004 on claims it forced its Internet Explorer Web browser on Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>Google and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}