Judge Leonie Brinkema said Google has harmed its publisher customers, the competitive process and consumers of online information.

“Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising,” the ruling said.

The lawsuit was brought against Google by the federal government and 17 states.

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In a landmark case, a judge found in August that Google, which processes 90% of U.S. internet searches, had built an illegal monopoly. The Justice Department’s proposed remedies have the potential to reshape how Americans find information on the internet while shrinking Google’s revenues and giving its competitors more room to grow.

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The decision is a significant win for the Justice Department, which had sued the search engine giant over its control of about 90% of the online search market, and 95% on smartphones.

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The US Department of Justice and more than a dozen states have filed a lawsuit against Apple in federal court, accusing it of violating antitrust laws by making its hardware and software products largely inaccessible to competitors. Apple’s “walled garden” approach to business, as it’s so often called, makes it difficult for rivals to compete and for customers to switch to other companies’ products. The lawsuit comes on the heels of the European Commission slapping Apple with a €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) fine. Apple, the commission concluded, prevented music streaming developers from “informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services available” outside the App Store.

“Apple undermines apps, products, and services that would otherwise make users less reliant on the iPhone,” Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in a press release published by CNN. “Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”

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Source: https://www.engadget.com/justice-department-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-over-its-infamous-walled-garden-144834571.html

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