Google’s Chrome Worth Up to $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale
- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures
- Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
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Alphabet Inc.’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, according to people familiar with the plans.