DOJ mulls Google breakup over monopoly concerns: report

The Justice Department is weighing options that could include breaking up Google after a federal judge held that the tech giant and its parent company Alphabet maintained an illegal monopoly over the online search market, according to a report.

Bloomberg News reported the antitrust division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering pursuing Google's breakup as one of the potential remedies it may pursue to address the tech giant's monopoly status, citing people with knowledge of the agency's deliberations. ---More...