Google faces painful reckoning as antitrust cases rev up

While a breakup may be a hard sell to the Washington judge overseeing the Justice Department’s search case, Google is undoubtedly looking at changes to the way it has long operated, antitrust experts said. — Reuters

Google’s antitrust problems are coming home to roost.

While the company has beat back European antitrust interventions by paying €6.5bil (RM30.46bil or US$7.1bil), US enforcers are now flexing their muscles – and the most painful part for the Alphabet Inc. unit won’t be monetary fines, but blows to core businesses that bring in big revenue.