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.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•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

    • @InucuneEnglish
      7•4 hours ago

      Bell telephone. AT&T was one of the resulting companies.

    • DacoTacoEnglish
      7•4 hours ago

      Thats stupid of the US to not block the merges again then… :p

      • @[email protected]English
        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

        • DacoTacoEnglish
          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