misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoA Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyerswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1330arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: google@lemmy.mlbusiness@lemmy.world
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minus-squareichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·10 hours agomicrosoft need it just as much if not more. Hope it happens to both.
minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·9 hours agoYears ago a Microsoft breakup was also once on the table, but it never happened. I wouldn’t get too excited that regulators will follow through with this for Google either.
minus-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 hours agoSpecifically, it didn’t happen because the supreme court made Bush Jr president and he killed it
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·4 hours agoLet us also not forget the Ma Bell breakup and what happened thereafter.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 hour agoLet’s just say, the telcos didn’t like being away from each other.
minus-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours ago“Somehow… Ma Bell returned.”
minus-squaremisk@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·10 hours agoPretty much most of the big tech needs it.
microsoft need it just as much if not more. Hope it happens to both.
Years ago a Microsoft breakup was also once on the table, but it never happened.
I wouldn’t get too excited that regulators will follow through with this for Google either.
Specifically, it didn’t happen because the supreme court made Bush Jr president and he killed it
Let us also not forget the Ma Bell breakup and what happened thereafter.
Tell us the story, Grandpa!
Let’s just say, the telcos didn’t like being away from each other.
“Somehow… Ma Bell returned.”
Pretty much most of the big tech needs it.