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Technology,
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Oct. 21, 2020

Google engages in anticompetitive conduct, DOJ says

It could be the first lawsuit in a wave of antitrust enforcement against other major tech companies amid heightened scrutiny by regulators of Facebook, Amazon and Apple.

The Justice Department accused Google of engaging in anticompetitive conduct to maintain illegal monopolies over search and search advertising in an antitrust lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The legal action is the government's most aggressive challenge to a tech company's market dominance since it sued Microsoft more than two decades ago on identical charges relating to restrictions it forced upon manufacturers and users to uninstall Intern...

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