Summary
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A US judge has ruled that Google doesn’t need to sell off its Android operating system or its Chrome browser in a monopoly case
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However, the tech giant has been ordered to share data with competitors to help open up competition in online search
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The judgment follows a finding that Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search
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Google was sued by the US Department of Justice in 2020 over its control of about 90% of the online search market
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Prosecutors accused Google of spending billions of dollars annually to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default search engine
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The US said Google typically pays more than $10bn (£7.8bn) a year for that privilege
Life is a bit more complicated than that, although I would be curious to learn about the alleged similarity in responses from different competition agencies.
Considering the current the state of American society any independent anti trust actions is likely to followed by disproportional threats.