The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.'s Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • the_crotchEnglish
    132·
    5 hours ago

    The US did this to AT&T. It was broken up into dozens of “baby bells”. Then it gradually bought them all back up and now it’s as big as it ever was

      • the_crotchEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Well this process also spawned Verizon, so they do have legitimate competition now and that’s what matters to antitrust actions

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Very true, but in due time verizon could also be bought. Hence fcc should technically block it, like the nvidia and arm merge.
          Or microsoft and activision ( which was heavily contested ).
          Both were heavily contested worldwide