Official: US Justice Department going 'full tilt' on tech antitrust probe


State attorneys general have separate probes of Google, and the US House Judiciary Committee has ongoing investigations of Google, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Apple Inc. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department is moving "full-tilt" on its antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc’s Google and other Big Tech platforms, the department's second-ranking official said.

Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen told Reuters in an interview this week at the department's headquarters that he could not commit to a specific date by which the department would decide whether to bring an antitrust suit against Google.

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