Google Should Be Afraid. Very Afraid.
A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for the company. The culture has turned against tech since Google skated free in 2013.
CEO Sundar Pichai is going to need all the good PR he can get.
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This is the moment the U.S. technology superpowers surely knew was coming: The U.S. government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and the other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests.
Bloomberg News and other news organizations reported late Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to open an investigation into Google’s compliance with antitrust laws. If it goes forward, an investigation will no doubt be broad, lengthy, messy, and impossible for Google and its investors to predict.