Why US Department of Justice wants Google to sell Chrome

Alphabet-owned Google returned to a Washington, DC courtroom on Monday for the remedies phase of the US government’s landmark antitrust case, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for a structural breakup of the tech giant, including a forced sale of its Chrome browser. The trial follows a 2023 ruling by US district judge Amit Mehta, who found that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly over search by striking multi-billion-dollar default placement deals with phone makers like Apple and Samsung. Prosecutors argue those arrangements locked out competitors and cemented Google’s market dominance. “We are not here for Pyrrhic victory. We are here to restore competition,” DOJ attorney David Dahlquist told the court in his opening remarks. Click the link below to read more of the story 👇 https://www.cityam.com/google-back-in-the-hot-seat-as-antitrust-pushes-chrome-sell/ Get more of City AM 👇 🌐 http://www.cityam.com X(formerly Twitter): http://twitter.com/CityAM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cityam Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/city_am LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cityam Produced by: Saskia Koopman, Emmanuel Nwosu, Joe Lee