Activists urge Google to break up before regulators force it to


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 19 Jun 2019

FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures are seen in front of Google logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO: Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest Internet ad seller to split into different pieces.

SumOfUs, a US-based group that aims to curb the growing power of corporations, is set to make that proposal at Alphabet's annual shareholder meeting on June 19 at an auditorium at the company's offices in Sunnyvale, California.

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