More than anything else, Google doesn’t want to lose Chrome. We expect to see Google’s established opposition to Chrome divestiture cranked up to 11 in the remedy phase. The company will no doubt be able to point to many instances where it acted as a benevolent steward of the open web through the dominance of Chrome. It chose to make Chromium open source and has kept it that way, even though it could have made more money keeping the code to itself.
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Owned By Google (this is in no way a complete list. Note that some list you might find do contain errors)
Major Services:
Google Search: The primary search engine.Google has a 90% share of the global search engine market
Gmail: The email service.
YouTube: The video sharing platform.
Android: The mobile operating system.
Google Maps: The online mapping service.
Google Play: The mobile app store
AdSense, Blogger
Owned Companies:
Waze: GPS navigation and traffic app.
Nest: Home automation products.
Fitbit: Wearable fitness trackers.
DoubleClick: Online advertising platform.
Looker: Data analytics platform.
Motorola Mobility: Telecommunications company.
AdMob: Mobile advertising platform.
Other Internet Properties:
Google Fiber: Fiber broadband internet service.
AdSense: Advertising network for non-Google websites.
Google Wifi: Home Wi-Fi system
Additional List of Google Products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
Alphabet Revenue:
Alphabet’s revenues remained below expectations in the last quarter of 2024, while its net income beat forecasts. Yearly, the company’s revenues for last year rose 14% to $350 billion in 2024, and its net income soared 36% to $100.1 billion compared to 2023.Feb 5, 2025.
In terms of market capitalization, Microsoft is bigger than Google. Microsoft’s market cap is around $3.12 trillion, while Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a market cap of around $2.13 trillion.
In terms of market capitalization (the total market value of a company’s outstanding shares), Apple is larger than Google. Apple’s market cap is currently around $3.021 trillion, while Google (Alphabet Inc.) has a market cap of $2.13 trillion.
Apple Is Now Bigger Than Google, Amazon, Tesla, and Walmart Combined
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So the anti-trust case is not about size.
Google, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that Google violated antitrust law by monopolizing open-web digital advertising markets. According to the Court, Google “harmed Google’s publishing customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web.”
n 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search engine.
What violates the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The most common violations of the Sherman Act and the violations most likely to be prosecuted criminally are price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation among competitors (commonly described as “horizontal agreements”).
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