US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the US Justice Department to review the power that large technology firms such as Google have over the American economy, the latest US official to back antitrust scrutiny of the industry.
A 60 Minutes segment on Sunday devoted to assertions that Alphabet Inc’s Google wields a destructive monopoly in online search hammered home the notion of the company’s dominance during a time of heightened public concern with technology giants. The report didn’t include new allegations about the company.
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