Google Says It Doesn't Monopolize Digital Ad Market. Senators Don't Buy It

A Google executive faced bipartisan grilling in the Senate on Tuesday over the company's dominance in digital advertising, in a preview of arguments the tech giant is likely to soon face from antitrust regulators.

Google's massive search and advertising businesses are at the heart of investigations by the Justice Department and nearly every state attorney general. The department is reportedly getting ready to file a lawsuit against the company in the coming weeks.

On Tuesday, senators on a Judiciary subcommittee pressed Donald Harrison, Google's president of global partnerships and corporate development, on the scope and scale of the company's digital advertising business.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913328975/google-says-it-doesnt-monopolize-digital-ad-market-senators-don-t-buy-it

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Thanks to Google, app store monopoly concerns have now reached India

Last week, as Epic Games, Facebook, and Microsoft continued to express concerns about Apple’s “monopolistic” hold over what a billion people can download on their iPhones, a similar story unfolded in India, the world’s second largest internet market, between a giant developer and the operator of the only other large mobile app store.

Google pulled Paytm, the app from India’s most valuable startup, off of the Play Store on Friday. The app returned to the store eight hours later, but the controversy and acrimony Google has stirred up in the country will linger for years.

TechCrunch reported on Friday that Google pulled Paytm app from its app store after a repeat pattern of violations of Google Play Store guidelines by the Indian firm.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/20/thanks-to-google-paytm-app-store-monopoly-concerns-have-now-reached-india/

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USA's inJustice Department will slap on the wrist monopolist Google for violating their antitrust laws

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monopolist-google-violating-antitrust-laws

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/response-doj


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