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Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, arrives at a court in Washington, DC, where a landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine begins. IMAGES
The United States is suing Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, announces Attorney General Merrick Garland from the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," he tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE
Paris, Jul 13 (EFE/EPA).- The French Competition Authority imposed a fine of 500 million euros on Google on Tuesday for not having negotiated in good faith compensation for the media for the use of its news content, something a national law requires.ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF GOOGLE IN NEW YORK.
When is the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Google will go to trial? According to CNBC and Gizmodo, it looks like the trail will be held late 2023. Google and US District Judge Amit Mehta agreed in a Friday status hearing that the trial was on track to get rolling in “late 2023.” Mehta marked down September 12, 2023 as the tentative start date. Why so much time? The two sides need to iron out that wrinkle before the trial.
The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator slaps tech giant Google with a new fine over unfair competition, in Europe's latest salvo against Silicon Valley. SOUNDBITE
The EU says it has slapped a record 4.34-billion-euro ($5.04 billion) antitrust fine on Google for illegally using its Android operating system to strengthen the dominance of its search engine. SOUNDBITE