Google Keeps Chrome, Apple Deal But Must Share Data in Big Antitrust Ruling

A judge in Washington said on Tuesday that Google would not have to sell the Chrome browser and said the US Antitröst practitioners a rare win to Big Tech in his battle, but Google ordered to share data with competitors to open a competition in the online search.

The shares of the Google Parental Alphabet increased by 7.2% in the expanded transaction on Tuesday, as investors applauded the judge’s decision. Apple shares increased by 3%.

US regional judge Amit Mehta has decided that Google can protect the Android operating system, which helps Google with Chrome to maintain its market dominant online advertising business.

The decision stems from a five -year legal war between one of the world’s most profitable companies in the world, in which Big Tech has long questioned the market domination of Antitröst organizers and MPs for a long time. Last year, Mehta decided that Google had an illegal monopoly in online search and relevant advertising.

However, the judge, since the beginning of the trial by pointing to the competition created by artificial intelligence companies, Google has approached the remedy application with “humbleness”.

Mehta, “Here the court is asked to look at a crystal ball and look at the future. A judge is not exactly Forte,” Mehta wrote.

Data sharing with competitors will strengthen Google’s advertising business, but not having to sell Chrome or Android, eliminating a great concern for investors who see them as key parts to Google’s overall business.

Google is facing a great threat to Openai’s popular Chatgot Chatbot, which has already eroded Google’s dominance. If Google is allowed to access the data that you need to share, AI companies can support CATBOTs and in some cases AI search engines and web browsers.

Mehta said that any search engine developer has been placed better than for decades to compete with AI companies.

Deepak Mathivanan, Cantor Fitzgerald Analyst, said that data sharing requirements pose a competitive risk for Google, but not immediately.

“Consumers will also adopt these new experiences,” he said.

Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor Gail Slater, US antitröst practitioners are considering the next steps.

In a blog broadcast, Google said that data sharing “will affect our users and privacy and worried that we’ll examine the decision closely.

Google said it plans to make an objection before, which means that the company can take years to act on the decision. The case is likely to go to a high court.

“Judge Mehta, the Supreme Court is aware that the Court of Cassation is a possible final destination for the case and chose solutions that have the chance to accept by the court,” George Washington University Repetitive Law Center Director. He said.

Billions of payments

The decision was also a relief for other devices and web browser manufacturers that Apple and Mehta said they might continue to receive advertising revenue sharing payments from Google to search on their devices. Morgan Stanley analysts said last year Google paid Apple $ 20 billion annually.

In the midst of the rise of AI, the prohibition of payments is less necessary, Mehta, Openai’nin Chatgpt products such as “traditional internet search poses a threat to the priority” wrote.

The decision has made it easier for the device manufacturers and others, which set the applications created by Google’s competitors by preventing Google from entering special contracts, and for others who set the Google Search of others as default.

Google itself suggested to loosen these agreements, and device manufacturers allow the Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Motorola and wireless carriers to upload the latest agreements with At & T and Verizon.

Great technical pressure

In addition to the case on the search, Google filed a lawsuit against its dominance in other markets.

The company said that it will recently continue to fight a decision that requires it to renew the application store in a case won by Maker Epic Games.

And Google is scheduled to be tried later in this month to determine the solutions in a separate case brought by the Ministry of Justice, where a judge has found that the company has kept illegal monopolies in online advertising technology.

The two lawsuits of the Ministry of Justice against Google are part of a larger two -party print on large technology companies that started by the US President Donald Trump in the first period of President Donald Trump and containing cases against Meta, Amazon and Apple.