In August 2024, internet behemoth Alphabet lost the biggest antitrust challenge it has ever faced when a US judge found that its subsidiary Google illegally monopolized the search market. US Federal ...

The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant. By Cade Metz and Cecilia Kang In an unlikely bid that shows the growing brashness of young artificial ...

AI search engine startup Perplexity has reportedly offered Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome after the U.S. government last year proposed that Google divest its popular web browser following an ...

Aug. 12 (UPI) --AI startup Perplexity has offered to buy Google Chrome in a deal for tens of billions of dollars. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence software company in July was valued at ...

(Bloomberg/Julia Love) — AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant ...

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