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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games
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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 11:35 pm ETGoogle lost an antitrust case over the market power of its app store on Monday, a blow to the search giant as it faces other legal challenges to its search dominance and ad tech business.Videogame maker Epic Games sued the search giant in 2020, alleging it used its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers. The San Francisco jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for less than four hours. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games
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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 11:35 pm ETGoogle lost an antitrust case over the market power of its app store on Monday, a blow to the search giant as it faces other legal challenges to its search dominance and ad tech business.Videogame maker Epic Games sued the search giant in 2020, alleging it used its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers. The San Francisco jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for less than four hours. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Sundar Pichai To Shantanu Narayen, 5 Highest-paid Indian CEOs
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Sundar Pichai To Shantanu Narayen, 5 Highest-paid Indian CEOs

Curated By: Business DeskLast Updated: December 04, 2023, 18:15 ISTShantanu Narayen is the CEO of Adobe.From the small village of Panoh in Una district, Himachal Pradesh, Jai Chaudhary's journey to becoming Zscaler's CEO is remarkable.The triumvirate of hard work, determination and vision has propelled many business leaders into the top echelons of the highest-paid Indian CEOs. India, claiming the third spot globally with a staggering 160 billionaires, stands as a fertile ground for startups and multinational enterprises. Take a look at the list of the richest Indian CEOs.Sundar PichaiSundar Pichai, hailing from Madras, serves as the CEO of both Alphabet and Google, earning an annual salary of Rs 16,64,37,680. He pursued his engineering at IIT Kharagpur in India, followed by an MS at Sta...
Google Antitrust Trial Exposes Deepening Rift With Microsoft  
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Google Antitrust Trial Exposes Deepening Rift With Microsoft  

Satya Nadella wanted to make nice with longtime rival Google when he became chief executive of Microsoft almost a decade ago. Those days now feel like a distant memory.Google’s antitrust trial in Washington, D.C., has provided a stage for Microsoft to air long-simmering grievances about the search giant’s market dominance. It also has opened a window into the events that led to a straining of relations between the two companies, a dynamic that has grown increasingly tense during the boom in artificial intelligence.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Google’s Sundar Pichai Tells Court Search Dominance Is Result of ‘Fierce Competition’
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Tells Court Search Dominance Is Result of ‘Fierce Competition’

Updated Oct. 30, 2023 12:31 pm ETWASHINGTON—Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai took the stand Monday in the tech giant’s antitrust trial, a pivotal moment in a case that could result in major changes to the company’s search engine.Google’s lawyers called Pichai as a witness as the trial entered its eighth week, seeking to undermine the Justice Department’s central argument that Google dominates internet search because of anticompetitive agreements that block rivals from gaining market share.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Google CEO Testifies About Search Dominance in U.S. Antitrust Case 
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Google CEO Testifies About Search Dominance in U.S. Antitrust Case 

Updated Oct. 30, 2023 11:30 am ETWASHINGTON—Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai took the stand Monday in the tech giant’s antitrust trial, a pivotal moment in a case that could result in major changes to the company’s search engine.Google’s lawyers called Pichai as a witness as the trial entered its eighth week, seeking to undermine the Justice Department’s central argument that Google dominates internet search because of anticompetitive agreements that block rivals from gaining market share.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Google’s Cloud Sales Disappoint as Advertising Rebounds
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Google’s Cloud Sales Disappoint as Advertising Rebounds

Updated Oct. 24, 2023 6:08 pm ETGoogle reported its strongest business growth in more than a year but disappointed investors with relatively weak cloud-computing sales, delivering a mixed picture as it continues to wrestle with competitors developing artificial-intelligence tools.Google’s parent company Alphabet reported third-quarter revenue of $77 billion Tuesday, up 11% from the same period last year. The results marked the third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth for the search giant following an economic slowdown that briefly caused a rare drop in the company’s advertising sales.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Search Engine: United States claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to maintain its search dominance
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Search Engine: United States claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to maintain its search dominance

WASHINGTON: Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said Tuesday at the opening of the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. "This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google's search engine will ever face meaningful competition," said Kenneth Dintzer, the justice department's lead litigator. Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking in its search engine as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices. US District Judge Amit Mehta likely won't issue a ruling until early next year. If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will decide what steps should be t...
Google faces federal regulators in biggest antitrust trial in decades
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Google faces federal regulators in biggest antitrust trial in decades

Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta likely won't issue a ruling until early next year. If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will decide what steps should be taken to rein in the Mountain View, California-based company. Top executives at Google and its corporate parent Alphabet Inc., as well as those from other powerful technology companies are expected to testify....