"2025 could have been a pretty disastrous year for Google. The company came in knowing it had three major legal battles to fight, increasing competition in the burgeoning AI market, and a new US president to adapt to. It looked possible - perhaps likely - that the company might be broken up and forced to sell off Chrome or part of its ad tech business, leaving it forever smaller."
"Its biggest problems lay in the courtroom: it had been declared a monopoly and was staring down the barrel of remedies in its Search antitrust case, including the potential of a forced sale of its Chrome browser; it had to defend itself in a separate ad tech antitrust case that threatened the possible break up of its other big moneymaker;"
Google entered 2025 facing three major legal battles, heightened AI competition, and a change in U.S. leadership. The company confronted a Search antitrust case that raised the prospect of a forced sale of Chrome and an ad-tech antitrust suit threatening a breakup of its advertising business. Google was also appealing a defeat in the Epic Games case that could have altered Android payment and app distribution. Despite those threats, the company achieved record profits, persuaded courts to maintain the status quo in search and advertising for the near term, and emerged as a clear AI success story.
Read at The Verge
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