The Justice Department wants the search giant to divest the Chrome web browser, among other provisions designed to limit its market power.

In a major antitrust crackdown on Google, the US government asked a judge to order the dismantling of the internet giant by selling its widely used Chrome browser. What would this mean for the company?

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked a judge to force tech giant Google to break off its Chrome web browser.

The Justice Department is looking to break up one of America’s most powerful companies following a court ruling in September that found Google violated antitrust law. Shares of Google-parent Alphabet plunged over 5% Thursday after prosecutors outlined proposed remedies that would significantly alter how the search giant conducts its business.

A federal judge is considering ways to restore competition in the online search market. Google says a breakup would hurt consumers.

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it,

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had

It asks that Google be forced to sell off the Chrome web browser, and possibly Android. Google has been in a lawsuit with the federal Department of Justice, in coordination with the several U.S. states and Puerto Rico,

Google could have to sell its popular browser and might not be allowed to pay phone companies to make the giant the default search engine.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to force Google to sell Chrome after a federal judge ruled that the tech giant had monopolized the search market. Making Google divest itself from Chrome and Android won't significantly reduce Google's share of the market for general search services,