History's biggest break-up: US federal prosecutors say Google must sell Chrome • FRANCE 24 English

In the antitrust trial of the century, the US Justice Department has filed for tech giant Alphabet to separate from its Chrome browser, which is used by around 3.5 billion people globally. It's also asked the District of Colombia judge to rule that if Google continues with monopolistic misconduct, it could also lose its Android mobile phone operating system as well. In this business bulletin we take a closer look at the story, as well as Nvidia's earnings call, Australia's social media ban and French President Emmanuel Macron's defence of cognac.

[presbiteroo]

Anti trust enforcement is one of the most important things governments should be doing.

[vulcand]

So Google has nany companies, can it just sell to itself? Im sure that will happen.

[paleggett]

A goniff will always go to their default, “The power of greed, lust, gluttony and oppression is best….”

[johnjakson]

I have a really excellent idea, why not let one of the other Chrome vendors take it over, the biggest one I suppose would be MS, I'm sure that would work out well.

[iGameD]

This makes no sense. Nobody buys a browser, so how is a browser going to make money?

[ΓαβριήλΑλκιβιάδης]

revamp the system and replace the CEOs.

[Oerjan]

Now it's time they split up the mediocre control monolith Microsoft again

[bobbrown]

Sell an open source project? Only in Washington

[SwatantraNandanwar]

If google and chrome bith go bust, then can they sue the DOJ?

[MarcosAntonius]

I would have rather seen this happen to Microsoft.

[radjalomas]

Damn, Xi looked like he was forced to shake Macron's hand 😄

[kathev]

U cant force people to sell or buy. I've tried.

[KingTechHD]

Google having to sell Android would be hilarious 😂 I bet Samsung would buy it

[joetran]

And what motivation does China have to remove the tariffs on cognac? Not that I support the CCP, but playing devil's advocate, and seeing this from the CCP's side, what does China get out of it?

[param]

gov should take over googie in all corresponding region.

[nagakk]

does APPLE need to sell SAFARI browser?

force APPLE to sell it.

[kinngrimm]

I guess we will have to wait for another democrat(ic) administration for another break up.

[w-w-w]

Why do Google need to sell Chrome? You have many options to choose the browsers. I personally use Firefox and Brave. US is more and more ridiculous everyday. Don't try to touch the thing most people use. You guys don't have the abilities to maintain Google products. There is no way I would believe other unknown companies than Google.