Amit Mehta

The end of Google’s monopoly lawsuit has Silicon Valley on edge

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The stakes are high as a federal judge considers whether to break up the tech giant’s search empire. This also applies to the rest of Silicon Valley. A landmark antitrust case pitting Google (GOOG, GOOGL) against the Justice Department entered its final stages this past week, as prosecutors from the federal government and 14 states … Read more

Google and the Justice Department are making final arguments over whether the search engine is a monopoly

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Google’s preeminence as an Internet search engine is an illegal monopoly supported by more than $20 billion the tech giant spends annually to exclude competition, Justice Department lawyers argued in the conclusion of an antitrust case with high stakes. Google, on the other hand, claims that its ubiquity stems from its excellence … Read more