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Google must divest Chrome, Android, groups tell UK CMA

( February 3, 2025, 17:54 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google's monopolistic information ecosystem and track record of circumventing behavioral remedies means regulators must use structural remedies like mandating divestment of Chrome and Android, the Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty told the UK Competition and Markets Authority. The advocacy groups not only urged the CMA to consider mandated separation of Chrome and Android from Google's product suite, but to examine how Google's "whole system" has been designed to fortify its dominance in multiple markets besides search and advertising tech, like artificial intelligence interfaces. "Through AI Overviews, Google is moving beyond selling ads on traditional search results that connect users with the open web — it’s directly selling highly targeted ads on AI-generated summaries that obscure access to the open web," they said.See attached file....

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