In January, Alphabet passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world. Alphabet was worth $3.885 trillion. Apple sat at $3.846 trillion. Only Nvidia, at $4.595 trillion, was ahead.
That alone would be news. But the context makes it something else entirely. Courts had found that Google violated antitrust law in both general search services and general search text advertising. The Department of Justice asked judges to break the company apart, sell off Chrome, divest the Android operating system, and force…

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