The DOJ questioned a Verizon executive about the company’s decision to always pre-install Google’s Chrome browser with Google search on its mobile phones, as the government sought to show that Google broke antitrust law to maintain its dominance in online search. Brian Higgins, a 28-year Verizon veteran who was on a team from 2017 to 2023 that struck deals with Google to pick software to preload onto the carrier’s phones, testified in a federal court in Washington: “To the best of my knowledge, I believe it is pre-installed all the time.” Read more about the testimony.
In the first week of one of the biggest U.S. antitrust trials in decades, a Google executive testified that Google pressed Android smartphone makers to have Google as the default search engine, while Google argued quality kept its search on top and gave a glimpse of its defense strategy.
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Hankering for a new U.S. Supreme Court jurisdictional puzzle? BASF Metals and ICBC Standard Bank have got you covered. The two companies filed a petition this week that asks the Supreme Court to decide whether courts can assert jurisdiction over defendants that have had no contact with the forum in which they were sued — but are accused of participating in a conspiracy with other defendants who have such contacts. The 2nd Circuit says the answer to that question is yes. BASF and ICBC want the Supreme Court to hold otherwise. Alison Frankel has the story.
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