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What’s Next for Google’s Search Monopoly

3 December 2024 at 03:00
The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing the U.S. government’s proposal to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Here’s what happens now.

© Kent Nishimura for The New York Times

In resolving an antitrust case, Judge Amit P. Mehta could adopt either the government’s proposal or Google’s ideas wholesale or find a middle ground.

Canada Accuses Google of Creating Advertising Tech Monopoly

28 November 2024 at 19:53
The case largely echoes an antitrust action in the United States and seeks to force Google to sell off sections of its online ad business.

© Amy Osborne/The New York Times

Canada’s competition authority said that Google owned four of the largest online advertising tech services in the country and that they control 40 percent to 90 percent of their market.

U.S. Says Google Is an Ad Tech Monopolist, in Closing Arguments

25 November 2024 at 15:44
The two sides made their final cases to a federal judge Monday in a trial over the tech giant’s dominance in technology that sells ads online.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Google has been under pressure on multiple fronts over its towering influence across technology markets and whether it has illegally wielded its power to crush competition.

The ‘Rocket Docket’ Judge Who Will Decide the Fate of Google’s Ad Technology

25 November 2024 at 14:06
The ruling by a federal judge, Leonie Brinkema, in an antitrust case over Google’s advertising technology could add to the internet company’s woes.

© Photo Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru; Photographs by Tom Brenner for The New York Times; Jason Henry for The New York Times; Pete Marovich for The New York Times; Getty

How Biden Changed His Mind on Pardoning Hunter: ‘Time to End All of This’

2 December 2024 at 19:15
The threat of a retribution-focused Trump administration and his son’s looming sentencings prompted the president to abandon a promise not to get involved in Hunter Biden’s legal problems.

© Tom Brenner for The New York Times

President Biden was deeply concerned that legal problems would push his son into a relapse after years of sobriety, and he began to realize there might not be any way out beyond issuing a pardon.

Were Hunter Biden’s Prosecutions a Result of Political Pressure? A Look at the Facts

3 December 2024 at 06:30
The gun case federal prosecutors brought against Hunter Biden was relatively rare, but the tax charges he pleaded guilty to may have been less unusual.

© Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times

Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, in early September, leaving a federal courthouse in California where he pleaded guilty to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
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