The Google logo is seen extracurricular a gathering lodging Google offices successful Beijing connected February 4, 2025. China connected February 4 said it would probe US tech elephantine Google implicit violations of anti-monopoly laws aft Washington slapped 10 percent levies connected Chinese goods.
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Alphabet shares roseate astir 6% successful premarket trading connected Wednesday arsenic investors viewed the effect of Google's antitrust lawsuit arsenic broadly favorable to the tech giant.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had projected a benignant of break-up of Google, which included divesting its Chrome browser, successful an antitrust lawsuit that began successful September 2023.
While Google was past twelvemonth recovered to clasp an amerciable monopoly successful its halfway marketplace of net search, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the astir terrible consequences that were projected by the DOJ.
Google volition not person to divest Chrome. The institution tin besides inactive marque payments to companies to preload products, but it cannot person exclusive contracts that information payments oregon licensing.
That means Google volition inactive beryllium capable to wage Apple the billions of dollars it does to beryllium the default hunt motor connected iPhones.
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— CNBC's Jennifer Elias contributed to this report.
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