Perplexity Creates Counter Monopoly Play To Gain PayPal’s Millions Of Users by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, September 3, 2025 Perplexity has extended a partnership with PayPal and Venmo in a deal that could increase Comet browser users by millions. The agreement potentially creates a counter-monopoly play — a business strategy where a company or group … Continue reading Perplexity Creates Counter Monopoly Play To Gain PayPal’s Millions Of Users
Perplexity Considers Buying Chrome, Offers DOJ Remedy In Google Monopoly Trial by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 24, 2025 Perplexity has stepped up to argue with the U.S. Department of Justice that it should not divest the Chrome browser from Google, calling the push a major “mistake” for the industry. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas … Continue reading Perplexity Considers Buying Chrome, Offers DOJ Remedy In Google Monopoly Trial
A Federal judge found Google “willfully engaged in anticompetitive acts” to control the ad server and ad exchange markets. Anu Adegbola on April 17, 2025 Google created an illegal monopoly in the online advertising industry, a Federal judge ruled. Judge Leonie Brinkema sided with the Department of Justice in finding that the company engaged … Continue reading Google loses advertising monopoly case
Google’s Monopoly Unpacked by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 18, 2025 U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Thursday that Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, with the company willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges, technology and services that sit between … Continue reading Google’s Monopoly Unpacked
January 21, 2025 I don’t need a court case to tell me Google is a monopoly E-commerce businesses globally must compete on one main street where prime real estate goes to those willing to pay the price. BY Maureen Brown As an e-commerce entrepreneur, I loathe Google. I know all too intimately after spending $2 million … Continue reading I don’t need a court case to tell me Google is a monopoly
Google’s Fix For Search Monopoly: Choice, Performance Driven By Curiosity by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 23, 2024 Humans are curious. Their longing to question, speculate and doubt has made search and advertising much more difficult to accomplish successfully. Sometimes it is preference, and other times it is bias. Will we see a Google … Continue reading Google’s Fix For Search Monopoly: Choice, Performance Driven By Curiosity
Agencies and marketing consultants reach out with comments about many different aspects of the Google monopoly verdict. Anu Adegbola on August 13, 2024 With Google ruled a monopoly in the world of search, reactions from the search advertising world continue to pour in. Here’s a selection of comments grouped by topic. Google’s appeal and … Continue reading The Google monopoly verdict: More industry reactions
Here are the key points under contention in the most significant anti-trust case of this century, Constantine von Hoffman on May 17, 2024 The Department of Justice made a pretty damning argument in its anti-trust case against Google. Judging by the government’s closing summary, the tech giant seems to have done everything wrong if … Continue reading Is Google a monopoly? The DOJ’s case in 11 slides
by Andrew Chapin July 3, 2016 Follow @andrewjchapinJuly 3, 2016 There’s an old adage with food (and pretty much anything you come across intended for consumption): Just because it tastes good doesn’t make it good for you. Case in point: deal sites that attract and provide goods to customers at discounted prices but end up … Continue reading How Small Businesses Can Move From the Deal Site Monopoly
