Published on: 2025-06-05 17:40:05
From its humble beginnings in the late 20th century, Google has come to dominate online searches, putting it squarely in the US government's antitrust crosshairs. The ongoing search antitrust case threatens to upend Google's dominance, giving smaller players a chance to thrive and possibly wiping others out. After wrapping up testimony in the case earlier this month, lawyers for Google and the Department of Justice have now made their closing arguments. The DOJ won the initial trial, securing a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:39:51
Department of Justice officials on Tuesday charged members or associates of an Armenian organized crime ring with stealing more than $83 million worth of cargo from Amazon by posing as legitimate truck drivers and siphoning off goods destined for the company's warehouses. Since at least 2021, at least four people linked to the crime ring carried out a scheme across California to steal truckloads of merchandise, ranging from smart TVs and GE icemakers to SharkNinja vacuums and air fryers, the DO
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 21:00:00
For years, big tech companies like Amazon and Google have been trying to make virtual try-ons engaging to encourage consumers to shop more online. Startups also tried to solve for inspiration and fit in fashion using AI. A new startup called Doji is now entering this space with an app designed to make apparel try-ons both fun and social. It does so by creating your avatar and then serving you different looks that may inspire you to buy new clothes. So far, early adopters have been impressed by
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 01:51:22
Last year, United States District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in search. Now, Google and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have had their say in the remedy phase of the trial, which wraps up today. It will determine the consequences for Google's actions, potentially changing the landscape for search as we rocket into the AI era, whether we like it or not. The remedy trial featured over 20 witnesses, including representatives
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 13:27:18
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve been harboring complaints about Ticketmaster, now’s the time to let it all out. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are inviting the public to submit comments about harmful practices in live ticketing as part of efforts to “identify unfair and anticompetitive” behavior in the industry. In March, President Donald Tru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 21:40:55
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The US Department of Justice filed a plan in court to make Google divest its advertising marketplace and ad management platform, part of a proposal to address the company’s “decade-long campaign of exclusionary conduct,” which a judge has declared violates antitrust law. On Monday, the DOJ and Google both filed requests for remedying the tech giant
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 13:25:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust The big picture: A high-stakes legal battle over the future of Google's advertising business is set to unfold this September, as the US Department of Justice pursues remedies that could reshape the digital ad ecosystem. As the trial approaches, both sides prepare for a legal showdown that could determine whether Google's dominance in online ads remains intact or is fundamentally dismantled. The US
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 01:28:43
We sometimes think of Google as a search company, but that's merely incidental—Google is really the world's biggest advertiser. That's why the antitrust case focused on Google's ad tech business could have even more lasting effects than cases focused on search or mobile apps. The court ruled against Google last month, and now both sides are lining up to present their proposed remedies in a trial later this year. In today's hearing, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema set the beginning of that tri
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 05:49:09
The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google's search remedy trial earlier this week, giving Google a chance to push back on the government's attempt to break up the search giant. Today is arguably Google's best chance to make the case that it should not be harshly penalized in the ongoing search antitrust case, with CEO Sundar Pichai taking the stand. Pichai attempted to explain why Google isn't abusing its market position and why the DOJ's proposed remedies are too extreme. The i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 01:17:24
Sean Duffy, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Transportation, would like to kill New York City’s congestion pricing. Donald Trump’s Department of Justice doesn’t think he has much of a case. We know that thanks to an apparent error on the part of the DOJ’s legal team, which uploaded and then removed an internal memo offering its opinion that the effort to kill the tolls is “unlikely” to win over the court. The 11-page document—uploaded Wednesday night to the docket for the ongoing lawsuit between New
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 05:23:53
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Testimony this week from Google’s antitrust trial shows that Google gives Samsung an “enormous sum of money” each month to preinstall the Gemini AI app on Samsung devices, reports Bloomberg. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has ruled Google’s search engine is an illegal monopoly, its lawyers are sparring with the DOJ over how severe a potential penalty should be.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 01:00:00
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to improve its results, thus it makes more money, thus it can afford more defaults. Google doesn’t really disagree with this assessment — but in it’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 04:00:00
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. After half a decade fighting to keep its empire together, Google’s defenses are wearing thin. The company is facing a two-front war that could fundamentally reshape its business, and, the US Department of Justice argues, open new opportunities for its competitors. Last year a fede
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 05:51:40
The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. “Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising,“ the ruling reads. Over the course of three weeks, the DOJ argued that illegally monopolized three separate markets
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-21 05:40:06
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it charged Jamison R. Wagner, a 40-year-old from Albuquerque, New Mexico, with arson for allegedly setting fires at a Tesla showroom in the city as well as the local Republican Party headquarters. The charges come as Tesla CEO Elon Musk remains the focus of widespread public anger over his unlawful destruction of the U.S. government and his far-right extremist views about race and immigration. The U.S. government alleges Wagner damaged two
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 17:29:52
Since President Donald Trump took office, US authorities have increasingly abdicated responsibility for policing crypto-related offenses. Attorneys and lawmakers fear the resulting enforcement vacuum could be used to violate rules with impunity. While running for office, Trump repeatedly declared himself a champion of bitcoin, and members of his family have become thoroughly entangled with the crypto industry. Over the past few months, his administration has set about unravelling Biden-era cryp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 11:56:40
A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at the Department of Justice (DOJ)—was reportedly caught bragging about hacking and distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats. The boasts appeared on archived versions of websites, of which several, once flagged, were quickly deleted, Reuters reported. Stanley was assigned to the DOJ by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). While Mus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-01 08:19:00
Bottom line: The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up its case against Google's alleged monopoly, suggesting the government could eventually force the company to sell its widely-used Chrome browser. The move is part of the DoJ's push to challenge Google's hold over the digital advertising and search engine markets. The Justice Department's latest legal action accuses Google of engaging in anticompetitive behavior by unfairly using its dominance in search and advertising to prop up its other
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 00:02:49
Google has gotten its first taste of remedies that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice plans to pursue to break up the tech giant’s monopoly in search. In the first filing since Trump allies took over the department, government lawyers backed off a key proposal submitted by the Biden DOJ. The government won't ask the court to force Google to sell off its AI investments, and the way it intends to handle Android is changing. However, the most serious penalty is intact—Google's popular Chrome brow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 04:10:28
A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The US Department of Justice announced Friday that Davis Lu was convicted by a jury after "causing intentional damage to protected computers" reportedly owned by the Ohio- and Dublin-based power management company Eaton Corp. Lu had worked at Eaton Corp. for about 11 years when he apparently beca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 12:07:29
Google has gotten its first taste of remedies that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice plans to pursue to break up the tech giant’s monopoly in search. In the first filing since Trump allies took over the department, government lawyers backed off a key proposal submitted by the Biden DOJ. The government won't ask the court to force Google to sell off its AI investments, and the way it intends to handle Android is changing. However, the most serious penalty is intact—Google's popular Chrome brow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 04:57:18
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case. The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestiture, to a buyer approved by the Plaintiffs in their sole discretion, subject to terms that the Court and Plaintiffs approve.” It also would require Google to stop paying partners for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 22:05:37
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has been battling an ongoing antitrust case after a judge ruled last year that it illegally maintained its monopoly in online search. In a new filing, the Justice Department reaffirmed its demand that Google must sell Chrome and stop paying companies to make Google Search the default option. The final decision on how Google must change will be made in April when the judge reviews proposals from both the government and Google. The US Department of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 21:08:22
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment for being a monopolist, as Judge Mehta found last year, reports
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 22:04:20
The US Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing. The DOJ first proposed that Google should sell Chrome last year, under then-President Joe Biden, but it seems to be sticking with that plan under the second Trump administration. The department is, however, no longer calling for the company to divest all its investments in artificial intelligence, including the billions Google has poured into Anthropic. “Google’s illegal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 09:26:54
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case. The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestiture, to a buyer approved by the Plaintiffs in their sole discretion, subject to terms that the Court and Plaintiffs approve.” It also would require Google to stop paying partners for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 13:58:15
On August 5th, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in the case of United States of America v. Google, saying, “...the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” That ended the biggest tech antitrust trial since the US took on Microsoft in the 1990s — possibly aside from the government’s antitrust case targeting Google’s ad business — but it’s also just the start of the process. Now, lawyers
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 17:48:15
A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According to a US Department of Justice press release, Steven Hale worked at the DVD company and allegedly stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021 and March 2022. He then allegedly "ripped" the movies, "bypassing encryption that prevents
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-20 14:33:48
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday criminal charges against the administrators of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex for allegedly facilitating money laundering by criminal and terrorist organizations, as well as violating U.S. sanctions. The two administrators are Lithuanian national and Russian resident Aleksej Besciokov, 46, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national residing in the United Arab Emirates, who “knew that criminal proceeds were being laundered th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 02:37:09
US charges Chinese hackers who targeted dissidents 25 minutes ago Share Save Annabelle Liang Business reporter Share Save Getty Images US prosecutors have charged 12 Chinese nationals for being part of an alleged hacking scheme, which sold data of US-based dissidents to the Chinese government. The "state-sponsored" operation also targeted government agencies including the Treasury, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Hackers also allegedly targeted an American religious organisation, a
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