Google broke the law with monopoly over online searches and ads, US judge rules
Mehta’s ruling against Alphabet’s major revenue driver paves the way for a second trial to determine potential fixes, such as requiring the company to stop paying smartphone makers billions of dollars annually to set Google as the default search engine on new phones.
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Protests at US Congress after House passes bill that could potentially ban TikTok nationwide
The Justice Department wants court approval “to file more than 15 per cent of its brief and 30 per cent of its evidence in secret”, Chinese parent company ByteDance and TikTok said. If they “are unable to review the government’s evidence”, they said, “they will be unable to rebut contentions that are factually incorrect – let alone explain to the court why the government’s arguments and evidence are legally insufficient”.