US DoJ will push Google to sell Chrome: Bloomberg
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The news: Top US Justice Department antitrust officials will ask a federal judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported, after the Alphabet company was ruled to have illegally monopolised the search market in August.
The context: The department will ask judge Amit Mehta, who made the August ruling, to require measures related to Google's artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, according to people familiar with the plans.
Antitrust officials, along with states that have joined the case, also plan to recommend that Mehta impose data licensing requirements, the unnamed sources said.
Chrome is the world's most popular web browser and central to Google's ads business. The browser is also being used to direct users to the tech giant's flagship AI product, Gemini, which is being developed as an assistant to follow users around the web.
What they said: Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said the DoJ "continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case".
"... the government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership at precisely the moment it is most needed," she said.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
The source: Bloomberg
