U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter speaks about the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment during a press conference as Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco look on during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ken CedenoThe Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August that the company holds a monopoly in the search market.Chrome, whic ...

Advertisement Judge Amit Mehta found in August that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its search business.On Wednesday, DOJ officials in the antitrust division filed their proposal for remedies in the case.The DOJ wants Judge Mehta to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.Officials from the Department of Justice, in a Wednesday filing, urged District Judge Amit Mehta to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.The recommendations are the finalized proposal by the DOJ's antitrust division for remedies in ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly plans to ask a judge to order Google to divest one or more core products as a way to reduce the company’s dominance in the search market.Google’s Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system could be among those core products, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Nov. 20), citing unnamed sources.Reached by PYMNTS, the DOJ declined to comment on the report.A Google spokesperson directed the FT to a blog post from October in which the company said the “b ...

The buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) on Wall Street and Main Street continues to grow. The incredible rise of Nvidia, whose revenue has catapulted from $17 billion in 2021 to $96 billion over the past 12 months, helped push the major stock market indexes to record highs.NVDA Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts Meanwhile, OpenAI's release of ChatGPT spurred a race by big tech companies to create increasingly sophisticated generative AI technology. According to estimates by the firm Next Move Strategy Consul ...

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming the search giant is in breach of several areas where the bloc has yet to formally probe the company’s compliance.The EU’s flagship market contestability rulebook has been in force on a handful of tech giants since March, including Google. Fines for failing to abide by DMA rules that mandate things like platform access on FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminat ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.'s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world's biggest tech companies. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally m ...

Fabien Pinckaers, CEO of Belgian-based enterprise software startup Odoo.OdooOdoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) in a secondary share round led by Alphabet's venture fund and Sequoia Capital.The Belgium-based company develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, with over 80 applications available on its platform offering businesses tools for accounting, customer relationship management, human resources and e ...

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核心观点 - 根据报告如果美国司法部成功说服联邦法官下令剥离谷歌的Chrome浏览器那么其在公开市场价值将达200亿美元[1] - 美国司法部将在周三的文件中建议法官下令出售Chrome以结束谷歌的垄断权力[1] 关于Chrome价值 - 若Chrome进入市场鉴于其有超30亿月活用户其价值至少150 - 200亿美元[2] 关于谷歌垄断及相关措施 - 联邦政府原本被广泛预期寻求拆分谷歌搜索业务梅塔法官将决定采取哪些措施谷歌已誓言上诉8月的裁决[3][7][9] - 许多用户通过Chrome访问核心搜索引擎Chrome控制61%的网络浏览器流量因此Chrome的剥离被视为解决谷歌垄断的关键[3] 关于Chrome的潜在买家 - 找到有资源购买Chrome且能通过监管机构审批的买家可能很困难微软支持的OpenAI是合理的追求者亚马逊因必然的反垄断审查极不可能[4] 关于安卓相关措施 - 美国司法部据报道不建议强迫谷歌出售安卓操作系统而是推动将安卓与其他服务断开连接[5] 关于其他竞争措施 - 美国司法部将推荐一系列其他旨在促进竞争的改变例如要求谷歌将从搜索引擎收集的数据授权给竞争对手允许网络出版商有更多的回旋余地阻止谷歌使用其数据来驱动人工智能功能如果其他补救措施足够有效可能不再要求强制出售Chrome[6] 关于谷歌的回应 - 谷歌拒绝对Chrome的预估价格标签发表评论谷歌监管事务副总裁称司法部推行激进议程会伤害消费者开发者和美国的技术领导地位[8] 关于外部影响因素 - 当选总统特朗普是个变数他虽长期批评谷歌但最近表示不愿拆分谷歌因为这对中国和其他大型科技竞争对手有利[11] - 特朗普提名的司法部长人选迈克·盖兹过去曾表示支持拆分谷歌但他的确认因国会期间的不当性行为指控远不能确定[12]