Apple could be the winner after Alphabet subsidiary Google lost its fight with the U.S. antitrust enforcers earlier this week, with a ruling that supports the Cupertino Colossus’ defense in its own antitrust court battle with U.S. prosecutors, legal experts told Reuters. Jody Godoy for Reuters: ‎ A federal judge mostly sided with state and federal antitrust enforcers in the blockbuster case on Monday that ruled Google’s search business was an illegal monopoly, but threw out a claim by several U.S. states that one of Google’s ad tools was designed to give the company an advantage over Microsoft’s Bing. That piece could help Apple’s defense in its own anti-monopoly case, experts said. The ruling underscored Supreme Court precedent that companies…

Alphabet subsidiary Google is “a monopolist, and has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Monday, August 5th. Jonathan Guilford for Reuters: ‎ Google now shares an ignominy with Microsoft. Judged by the same legal yardstick, Alphabet’s web search colossus is a monopolist just as the software developer was deemed to be in 2001. It might also suffer a similar fate. Regardless of the remedies, which will be determined later, the victory is a significant one for Jonathan Kanter, the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust chief, and his counterpart at the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan.…

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A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated U.S. antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world’s default search engine, the first big win for federal authorities against the Alphabet subsidiary. David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella for Reuters: ‎ The ruling paves the way for a second trial to determine potential fixes, possibly including a breakup of Google parent Alphabet, which would change the landscape of the online advertising world that Google has dominated for years. Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon. ‎ MacDailyNews Take: Duh. Even as we attempt to move away from the ad-supported model, we back whatever remedy or…

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Apple this week asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by federal and state antitrust regulators accusing it of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market. Apple said the lawsuit, if successful, would see a judge redesigning the iPhone. Jody Godoy for Reuters: ‎ The Justice Department, 19 states and Washington, D.C., accuse Apple of an illegal monopoly on smartphones maintained by imposing contractual restrictions on, and withholding critical access from, developers. In a motion filed in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Apple argued that putting reasonable limitations on third-party developers’ access to its technology did not amount to anti-competitive behavior, and forcing it to share technology with competitors would chill innovation. “Endorsing such a theory would require courts to…