The most significant antitrust trial in 25 years is drawing to a close in Washington, with Google making its final stand against the DOJ’s efforts to break the tech giant’s death grip on online search.
The Financial Times reports that the federal court in Washington began hearing closing arguments on Thursday in the 10-week trial, where the DOJ accused Alphabet, Google’s parent company, of suppressing search rivals by paying tens of billions annually for anti-competitive agreements with wireless carriers, browser developers, and device manufacturers.
Google’s lawyer, John Schmidtlein, pushed back on claims that the company had hindered rivals’ efforts to gain a foothold in online search, arguing that users had plenty of alternatives. “Google winning agreements because it has a better product is
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